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| 4968915097 | Inference | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 0 | |
| 4968919756 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 1 | |
| 4968924361 | Irony | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. | 2 | |
| 4968929143 | verbal irony | the words literally state the opposite of the writer's (or speaker's) true meaning. | 3 | |
| 4968932466 | situational irony | events turn out the opposite of what was expected. What the characters and the readers think ought to happen. | 4 | |
| 4968937737 | dramatic irony | facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work. | 5 | |
| 4968942453 | Juxtaposition | When two words, phrases, images, ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast. | 6 | |
| 4968948440 | Litotes | A figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite. It is a special form of understatement, where the surface denial serves, through ironic contrast, to reinforce the underlying assertion. | 7 | |
| 4968951908 | Litotes | He's no fool. | 8 | |
| 4968957528 | Loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 9 | |
| 4968960259 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. | 10 | |
| 4968963136 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 11 | |
| 4968980650 | Metonymy | "the White House declared" rather that "the President declared" | 12 | |
| 4968989015 | Subjective mood | Used to express conditions contrary to fact. | 13 | |
| 4968989991 | Subjective mood | "If I were you, I'd get another job." | 14 | |
| 4968997427 | Imperative mood | Used for commands. | 15 | |
| 4968998364 | Imperative mood | "Shut the door!" | 16 | |
| 4969004613 | Indicative mood | Used only for factual sentences. | 17 | |
| 4969005720 | Indicative mood | "Joe eats too quickly." | 18 | |
| 4969008737 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 19 | |
| 4969014509 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 20 | |
| 4969014510 | Onomatopoeia | Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum, crack, whinny, and murmur. | 21 | |
| 4969019329 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. | 22 | |
| 4969023441 | 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 | |
| 4969026633 | Parallelism | It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 24 | |
| 4969028770 | Parallelism | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity . . ." | 25 |
