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| 150276014 | Allegory | Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas and qualities. | |
| 150276015 | Allusion | a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature | |
| 150276016 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | |
| 150276017 | Analogy | Comparison made between to things to show how they are alike | |
| 150276018 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | |
| 150276019 | Anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence | |
| 150276020 | Anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something | |
| 150276021 | Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | |
| 150276022 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas, that are strongly contrasted often by means of grammatical structure | |
| 150276023 | Anthropomorphism | Attributing human characteristics to an animal or in animate object | |
| 150276024 | Apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. | |
| 150276025 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | |
| 150276026 | Asyndeton | commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally | |
| 150276027 | Direct Characterization | the author tells us directly what the character is like | |
| 150276028 | Static Character | a character who does not change much in the course of a story | |
| 150276029 | Dynamic Character | is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's actions | |
| 150276030 | Chiasmus | in poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed. | |
| 150276031 | Cliche | a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. | |
| 150276032 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations | |
| 150276033 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares 2 things that are startlingly different | |
| 150276034 | Diction | a writer's choice of words | |
| 150276035 | Didactic | teaches a lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | |
| 150276036 | Epanalepsis | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. | |
| 150276037 | Epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme | |
| 150276038 | Epistrophe | device of repetition in which the same expression or word is repeated at the end of two or more lines | |
| 150276039 | Epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or things that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality | |
| 150276040 | Explication | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention | |
| 150276041 | Farce | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly far fetched situations. | |
| 150276042 | Hyperbole | incredible exaggeration or overstatement | |
| 150276043 | Hypotactic | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them | |
| 150276044 | Inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. | |
| 150276045 | Juxtaposition | normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one and another, creating an effect of surprise or wit | |
| 150276046 | Litotes | form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | |
| 150276047 | Local Color | places special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape | |
| 150276048 | Loose Sentence | one in which the main clause comes first | |
| 150276049 | Meaphor | comparison between 2 unlike things without using the words like or as | |
| 150276050 | Metonymy | a person, place or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it | |
| 150276051 | Motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, or object used throughout a work | |
| 150276052 | Oxymoron | combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | |
| 150276053 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth | |
| 150276054 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | |
| 150276055 | Paratactic Sentence | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences | |
| 150276056 | Periodic | sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence | |
| 150276057 | Personification | object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes | |
| 150276058 | Polysyndeton | sentence that uses a conjunction with No commas | |
| 150276059 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked for an effect and not actually requiring an answer | |
| 150276060 | Satire | ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change | |
| 150276061 | Simile | makes a comparison using like or as | |
| 150276062 | Stream of Consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind | |
| 150276063 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part represents a whole | |
| 150276064 | Syntactic Fluency | ability to create a variety of sentence structures | |
| 150276065 | Syntactic Permutation | sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved | |
| 150276066 | Telegraphic Sentence | a sentence shorter than 5 words in length | |
| 150276067 | Tricolon | sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually 3 independent clauses | |
| 150276068 | Understatement | a statement that says less than what is meant | |
| 150276069 | Unity | related to 1 central idea or organizing principle | |
| 150276070 | Vernacular | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality |
