| Clue | Literary Technique |
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| an author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story; what happens and why it happens in a narrative | |
| the person who conveys the story to the audience | |
| the 'unknitting'; the outcome or resolution after a complex situation or series of events | |
| narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view or inner monologue as if unedited | |
| a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like (e.g. epic poetry, mystery novels, and sci-fi stories) | |
| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something (e.g. 'Bill is being promoted too much and too quickly; the wax will soon melt' is a passing reference to Icarus) | |
| a writer's specifc choice of words or phrases which combine to help create meaning | |
| literary style most popular in the 18th and 19th centuries that usually portrayed fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, and the grotesque | |
| recurring rhythmic pattern of stresses | |
| poetry based on natural rhythms of phrases rather than artificial poetic forms; poetry without form | |
| sensory perceptions referred to in literature and/or mental pictures experienced by the reader | |
| when a reader knows something about the circumstances of the narrative that the character does not know | |
| when a speaker makes a statement in which the actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the words ostensibly express | |
| accidental events occuring that seem oddly appropriate (e.g. a pickpocket getting his own pocket picked) | |
| a pause in the middle of a line of poetry | |
| | Clue | Literary Technique |
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| the repeating of vowel sounds in nearby words | |
| the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle of words | |
| the repetition of sounds in nearby words, typically consonant sounds at the start of the words | |
| exaggeration or overstatement | |
| when a sentence, clause, or meaning continues from one line of poetry to the next without stopping or pausing at the end of the line | |
| an attitude or mood conveyed by the author's use of setting, diction, incidents, etc. | |
| a recurring element/idea/object in a work or across works used to support a theme | |
| a type of figurative language used to make a comparison | |
| two successive lines of poetry that share the same meter and rhyme | |
| When a suggestive object is used to embody a more general idea (e.g. 'the crown' used to mean royal family) | |
| a type of figurative language used to say one thing is another | |
| The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, settings, etc for the purpose of comparison and contrast | |
| using clauses with clear subordination and logical relationships between them | |
| stringing together sentences, clauses, or prepositions with little to no conjuctions or subordination | |
| hinting or indicating what will happen later in a narrative | |
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