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| 13968841254 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 0 | |
| 13968844148 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 1 | |
| 13968844149 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 2 | |
| 13968847021 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 3 | |
| 13968848740 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | 4 | |
| 13968854889 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 5 | |
| 13968856672 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 6 | |
| 13968858977 | Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. | 7 | |
| 13968866820 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 8 | |
| 13968871560 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 9 | |
| 13968876499 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 10 | |
| 13968876500 | Ethos | beliefs or character of a group | 11 | |
| 13968878915 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 12 | |
| 13968885788 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 13 | |
| 13968885789 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 14 | |
| 13968890291 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 15 | |
| 13968890292 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 16 | |
| 13968895564 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 17 | |
| 13968895565 | Dennotation | the dictionary meaning of a word | 18 | |
| 13968899133 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 19 | |
| 13968903926 | didactic | intended to instruct | 20 | |
| 13968906266 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 21 | |
| 13968911109 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 22 | |
| 13968914463 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 23 | |
| 13968916656 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 24 | |
| 13968920159 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 25 | |
| 13968921959 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 26 | |
| 13972276899 | Caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. | 27 | |
| 13972279775 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 28 | |
| 13972288820 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 29 | |
| 13972290458 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 30 | |
| 13972291728 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 31 | |
| 13972295850 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 32 | |
| 13972301532 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 33 | |
| 13972305883 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 34 | |
| 13972308509 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 35 | |
| 13972310725 | Style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 36 | |
| 13972312146 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 37 | |
| 13972315864 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 38 | |
| 13972315865 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 39 |
