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| 4801221020 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial identical CONSONANT sounds or any VOWEL sounds in successive or closely associated SYLLABLES. Ex: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew/ The furrow followed free. | 0 | |
| 4801222144 | Allusion | A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. | 1 | |
| 4801222927 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 2 | |
| 4801224673 | Anaphora | One of the devices or repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. Ex: "As I ebb'd with the ocean of life,/ As I wended the shores I know,/ As I walk's where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok." | 3 | |
| 4801228055 | Antipophora | A strategy whereby a question or objection is answered with another question or objection. | 4 | |
| 4801229454 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. Ex: Emily Dickinson's address to God: "Papa Above!/ Regard a Mouse." | 5 | |
| 4801230574 | Assonance | Patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants (Whereas "lake" and "fake" show RHYME, "lake" and "fate" show ASSONANCE). | 6 | |
| 4801234426 | Caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. | 7 | |
| 4801236638 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. A conceit displays intellectual cleverness as a result of the unusual comparison being made. | 8 | |
| 4801237890 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. Connotations may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes. | 9 | |
| 4801238962 | Consonance | The relation between words in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that precede them differ, as "add/read," "mill/ball," and "torn/burn." | 10 | |
| 4801240198 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. (Example: the denotation of a knife would be a utensil used to cut; the connotation of a knife might be fear, violence, anger, foreboding, etc.) | 11 | |
| 5006421367 | Dysphemism | The use of negative expressions instead of positive ones. A speaker uses them to humiliate or degrade the disapproved person or character. | 12 | |
| 5006424594 | Enjambment | movement over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark. | 13 | |
| 5006427886 | Epiphora | An exact counterpart of another figure of speech anaphora. An anaphora is repetition of the first part of successive sentences whereas in an epiphora repetition occurs in the last part of successive clauses and sentences. | 14 | |
| 5006430605 | Euphemism | polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant. | 15 | |
| 5006434883 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration. For heightened effect or for humor. | 16 | |
| 5006437793 | Imagery | Collection of images in a literary work, or special usage of words in which there is a change in their basic meanings. | 17 | |
| 5006443622 | Metaphor | An analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second. | 18 | |
| 5006445982 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself | 19 | |
| 5006449510 | Octave | An eight-lined stanza. | 20 | |
| 5006452253 | Onomatopoeia | A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting | 21 | |
| 5006456007 | Oxymoron | From the Greek "sharp-dull," a self-contradictory combination of words or smaller verbal units; usually noun-noun, adjective-adjective, adverb-adverb, or adverb-verb. | 22 | |
| 5006457568 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 23 | |
| 5006460387 | Parallelism | the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter | 24 | |
| 5006468330 | Personification | A figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form. | 25 | |
| 5006471432 | Rhyme Scheme | Identity of terminal sound between accented syllables, usually occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse (Shakespearean sonnets will follow an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme). | 26 | |
| 5006477160 | Sestet | The six-lined division of an Italian Sonnet | 27 | |
| 5006482084 | Simile | A figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed through "as" or "like." | 28 | |
| 5247788014 | Symbolism | In broad sense, the use of one object to represent or suggest another. | 29 | |
| 5247793903 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage). | 30 | |
| 5247797366 | Synesthesia | In literature, synesthesia refers to the practice of associating two or more different senses in the same image. | 31 | |
| 5247813722 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines. | 32 |
