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| 3315436460 | Allegory | Narrative with multiple levels of meaning | 0 | |
| 3315437962 | Alliteration | Sequential repetition of similar initial sound | 1 | |
| 3315440276 | Allusion | A literary, historical, religious, or mythological refrence | 2 | |
| 3315442874 | Anaphora | Repetition of words at start of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 3315446151 | Antithesis | Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words | 4 | |
| 3315452397 | Aphorism | Concise statement designed to make a point/illustrate commonly held belief | 5 | |
| 3315455267 | Apostrophe | Address to something inanimate | 6 | |
| 3315456774 | Assonance | Repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 3315460441 | Asyndeton | Style where conjunctions are omitted | 8 | |
| 3315461823 | Attitude | Tone, voice/mood of writing | 9 | |
| 3315465245 | Canon | Accepted as authentic | 10 | |
| 3315466596 | Colloquial | Ordinary in language | 11 | |
| 3315467564 | Conceit | Prolonged comparison of two unlikely things | 12 | |
| 3315468755 | Connotation | Meaning suggested by a word, apart from its denotation | 13 | |
| 3315471667 | Consonance | Repetition of two or more consonants | 14 | |
| 3315473540 | Convention | Accepted manner, model, or tradition | 15 | |
| 3315476159 | Deductive Reasoning | Argument in which specific statement/conclusions are drawn from general principles | 16 | |
| 3315479587 | Dialect | Language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, group of people | 17 | |
| 3315483375 | Diction | Specific word choice to persuade or convey tone | 18 | |
| 3315487595 | Didactic | Containing instructive purpose or a lesson | 19 | |
| 3315489330 | Elegy | Poetic lament upon death of particular person | 20 | |
| 3315491657 | Epistrophe | Repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences | 21 | |
| 3315495790 | Epitaph | Praise for a dead person, usually on a headstone | 22 | |
| 3315498218 | Ethos | Appeal to text to credibility and character of a writer | 23 | |
| 3315500373 | Eulogy | Speech or prose in praise of a deceased person | 24 | |
| 3315502515 | Euphemsim | Kinder way to give unpleasant information | 25 | |
| 3315504283 | Expository | Explains own meaning or purpose | 26 | |
| 3315506694 | Extended Metaphor | Series of comparison | 27 | |
| 3315508311 | Genre | Type/class of literature | 28 | |
| 3315509716 | Homily | Sermon,talk, lecture on moral or spiritual life | 29 | |
| 3386924286 | Hyperbole | Overstatement using exaggerated language | 30 | |
| 3386924706 | Imagery | Use of figurative language to evoke feeling/idea, describe an object | 31 | |
| 3386926086 | Inductive Reasoning | Argument in which general conclusions are drawn from specific facts | 32 | |
| 3386927648 | Inference | Conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts/observations/data | 33 | |
| 3386929694 | Irony | Contrast between what is stated and what is meant | 34 | |
| 3386930424 | Jargon | Specialized/technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group | 35 | |
| 3386931237 | Juxtaposition | Location of one thing adjacent to another | 36 | |
| 3386931772 | Litote | Figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious statement | 37 | |
| 3386932647 | Metaphor | One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting likeness; an implied comparison | 38 | |
| 3386933759 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which an attribute/feature is used to name/designate something | 39 | |
| 3386936628 | Mood | Feeling/ambience resulting from tone and writer/narrators attitude/point of view | 40 | |
| 3386938394 | Narrative | Mode of discourse that tells a story based on sequences of connect events | 41 | |
| 3386939986 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what it describes | 42 | |
| 3386941054 | Oxymoron | Figure of speech combining two apparent contradictory elements, often humorous | 43 | |
| 3386942065 | Paradox | Seemingly contradictory statement | 44 | |
| 3386942571 | Pathos | Element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow | 45 | |
| 3386943750 | Personification | Giving human qualities to abstract ideas | 46 | |
| 3386944265 | POV | Relation of narrator/author to subject | 47 | |
| 3386944735 | Prose | Ordinary form of written language, not poetry | 48 | |
| 3386945479 | Realism | Describing nature/life without idealization | 49 | |
| 3386946751 | Rebuttal/ Refutation | Countering of anticipated arguments | 50 | |
| 3386947873 | Rhetorical Question | Question asked for stylistic effect | 51 | |
| 3386948847 | Rhetoric | The art of using words to persuade | 52 | |
| 3386949952 | Sarcasm | Verbal irony | 53 | |
| 3386950333 | Satire | Literary work that ridicules human feelings | 54 | |
| 3386950803 | Simile | Direct comparison, with like or as | 55 | |
| 3386951303 | Style | Distinctive manner of expression | 56 | |
| 3386952633 | Symbolism | Element of literary work that figuratively stands for something else | 57 | |
| 3386953841 | Synecdoche | When a part is used to signify a whole | 58 | |
| 3386954178 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 59 | |
| 3386954179 | Theme | Central/dominant idea or focus of work | 60 | |
| 3386954805 | Tone | Attitude literary work takes toward its subject/theme | 61 | |
| 3386955499 | Voice | Source of the words of the story | 62 |
