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| 4806639511 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sound of several consecutive or neighboring words | 0 | |
| 4806641518 | allusion | a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or thing | 1 | |
| 4806643803 | antithesis | involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast | 2 | |
| 4806646242 | apostrophe | a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present | 3 | |
| 4806861193 | assonance | the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words | 4 | |
| 4806855309 | consonance | the repetition of a consonant within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect | 5 | |
| 4806869295 | flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event | 6 | |
| 4806903567 | foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action | 7 | |
| 4806905847 | hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration; may be used for either serious or comic effect | 8 | |
| 4806910503 | verbal irony | the result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite | 9 | |
| 4806944081 | situational irony | when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect--though often the twist is oddly appropriate | 10 | |
| 4806949101 | dramatic irony | occurs when a character says or does something that has more or different meanings from what he thinks it means, though the audience and/or other characters do understand the full ramifications of the speech or action | 11 | |
| 4806954733 | metaphor | a comparison without the use of like or as; usually a comparison between something that is concrete and something that is abstract | 12 | |
| 4806960365 | onomatopoeia (imitative harmony) | the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe | 13 | |
| 4806962859 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single unusual expression | 14 | |
| 4806965940 | paradox | when the elements of a statement contradict each other; although the statement may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth | 15 | |
| 4806986985 | personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 16 | |
| 4806993157 | prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry | 17 | |
| 4807039998 | pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings; puns can have serious as well as humorous usese | 18 | |
| 4807046927 | sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it | 19 | |
| 4807049934 | sensory detail | an appeal to the senses (sight, sound, texture, taste, smell) | 20 | |
| 4807053679 | shift or turn | a change in movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader | 21 | |
| 4807107511 | simile | a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words 'like' or 'as'; a definitely stated comparison in which the writer says one thing is like another | 22 | |
| 4807120350 | symbols | any object, person, place, or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value | 23 | |
| 4807127794 | synecdoche (metonymy) | a form of metaphor; a part of something is used to signify the whole; the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated | 24 | |
| 4807149155 | synethesia | sense mixing | 25 | |
| 4807150744 | understatement (meiosis, litotes) | the opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 26 |
