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| 7474655681 | Allegory | A device using a character/ story to represent an abstraction. The Allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. | 0 | |
| 7474675555 | Allusion | A direct/ indirect reference that is commonly known such as a book, myth, place or work of art. | 1 | |
| 7474693971 | Antecedent | The word, phrase or clause referred by a pronoun. | 2 | |
| 7474706982 | Aphorism | A statement of know authorship which expresses general truth or a moral principle. | 3 | |
| 7474722725 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 4 | |
| 7474766842 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb... a complete thought that can stand alone as a sentence. | 5 | |
| 7474781391 | Diction | Refers to the writers word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness or effectiveness. | 6 | |
| 7474833224 | Euphemism | it is a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. | 7 | |
| 7474949072 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. Hyperboles are often have a comic effect ; however, a serious effect is also possible. | 8 | |
| 7474983740 | Inference/infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 9 | |
| 7474994254 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. | 10 | |
| 7475018831 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 11 | |
| 7475042669 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 12 | |
| 7475057417 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human emotions/ characteristics. | 13 | |
| 7475072996 | Point of View | a type of perspective of how a story is told. | 14 | |
| 7475078619 | Prose | one of the divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. In prose the printer determines the length of the line, in poetry, the poet determines the length of the line. | 15 | |
| 7475099854 | Rhetoric | Describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 16 | |
| 7475118542 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 17 | |
| 7475130836 | Simile | An explicit comparison usually using "Like," "as" or "if". | 18 | |
| 7475143109 | Syllogism | a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion | 19 | |
| 7475219677 | Symbol/Symbolism | Anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | 20 | |
| 7475228263 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses and sentences... very similar to dictation | 21 | |
| 7475240373 | Theme | The central idea or message. | 22 | |
| 7475245328 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant. | 23 |
