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| 15024414776 | Ethos | credibility of the speaker | 0 | |
| 15024425647 | Pathos | emotional appeal | 1 | |
| 15024425648 | Logos | an appeal based on logic or reason and support to the argument | 2 | |
| 15024435252 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 3 | |
| 15024439950 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 4 | |
| 15024443996 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 5 | |
| 15024453868 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole | 6 | |
| 15024458884 | Exigence | an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak | 7 | |
| 15024464017 | Kairos | the right time for action; critical moment; due season; the moment of divine inspiration | 8 | |
| 15024478962 | Explication de texte | the detailed analysis, or close reading of a passage of verse or prose. Such explication seeks to make meaning clear through a painstaking examination and explanation of style, language, symbolism, and the relationship of parts to the whole. | 9 | |
| 15024489315 | Exodus | A mass departure | 10 | |
| 15024494030 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 11 | |
| 15024499138 | anagram | a word or phrase formed from another word or phrase by changing the order of the letters | 12 | |
| 15024502511 | epitaph | a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person | 13 | |
| 15024514581 | Chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | 14 | |
| 15024519285 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 15 | |
| 15024526723 | didactic | teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson. | 16 | |
| 15024529475 | Allegory | a symbolic narrative | 17 | |
| 15024536758 | Amplification | A statement, narrative, etc., so expanded | 18 | |
| 15024551733 | Kenning | a conventional poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing | 19 | |
| 15024565604 | Euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt | 20 | |
| 15024575482 | Negative Capability | when a writer is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason | 21 | |
| 15024592227 | In Media Res | a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action | 22 | |
| 15024599704 | Characterization | The creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters, as in literary work | 23 | |
| 15024629531 | Conflict | To come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash | 24 | |
| 15024648649 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 25 | |
| 15024651875 | Caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 26 | |
| 15024668385 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 27 | |
| 15024674013 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual order of words | 28 | |
| 15024690511 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 29 | |
| 15024709340 | Aphorism | a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation | 30 | |
| 15024719718 | Apostrophe | ' to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounceable or pronounced, in the possessive case, or to indicate plurals of abbreviations or symbols | 31 | |
| 15024762556 | Archetype | A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches | 32 | |
| 15024796442 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 33 | |
| 15024802961 | bibliomancy | divination by opening a book at random | 34 | |
| 15024807852 | cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 35 | |
| 15024810478 | Faulty Parallelism | a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are roughly equivalent in meaning but not parallel (or grammatically similar) in form | 36 | |
| 15024822020 | Flashback | A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events | 37 | |
| 15024826243 | Epithet | A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something | 38 | |
| 15024835561 | euphony | agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear | 39 |
