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| 6437715306 | litote | Understatement (often you will see "understatement" on the AP exam instead of "litote" |  | 0 |
| 6437724428 | metaphor | a figure of speech that refers, for rhetorical effect, to one thing by mentioning another thing. |  | 1 |
| 6437724429 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). |  | 2 |
| 6437727391 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. |  | 3 |
| 6437727392 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 4 |
| 6437732176 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth (Ex: She lifted herself up by her bootstraps - physically this is impossible, but we understand the truth in it). |  | 5 |
| 6437732177 | parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns; also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure, this term comes from Greek roots meaning "beside one another." It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. |  | 6 |
| 6437734500 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. |  | 7 |
| 6437734501 | pathos | Appeal to emotion |  | 8 |
| 6437737095 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 9 |
| 6437737096 | prose | Any writing that is not poetry |  | 10 |
| 6437741443 | pronoun | A word that replaces and refers to a noun. |  | 11 |
| 6437872399 | logos | Appeal to logic |  | 12 |
| 6437884296 | purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. |  | 13 |
| 6437893401 | polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions |  | 14 |
| 6438066973 | motif | A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a text |  | 15 |
| 6438383485 | Plato's Cave | A theory thought up by Plato. chain people in a cave unabale to move their heads so they can only see the wall ahead of them. Puppeteers hold puppets up to the fire which cast shadows. Plato's theory is that those captives will believe the shadows are reality and will have a hard time realizing true reality once released. |  | 16 |
| 6516113191 | malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar |  | 17 |
| 6527730056 | periodic sentence | A sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end |  | 18 |
| 6527751341 | loose sentence (aka cumulative sentence) | The most common type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent phrases |  | 19 |
| 6527786883 | monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. |  | 20 |
| 6700088963 | pun | A play on words; created by using a word with two meanings. |  | 21 |
