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| 14971850775 | active voice | the subject of the sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 14971854126 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 14971860756 | alter-ego | one's other self | 2 | |
| 14971881406 | anecdote | short account of event | 3 | |
| 14971909743 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 14971917758 | classicism | art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures. | 5 | |
| 14971998315 | comic relief | a humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 6 | |
| 14972003107 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 7 | |
| 14972011010 | colloquial | characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 8 | |
| 14972068263 | connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 9 | |
| 14972075996 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 14972079944 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 11 | |
| 14972092932 | vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 12 | |
| 14972098901 | didactic | intended to teach | 13 | |
| 14972146036 | adage | folk saying with a lesson | 14 | |
| 14972153351 | allegory | a story, fictional or nonfictional, in which characters, things and events represent qualities or concepts | 15 | |
| 14972206043 | aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 16 | |
| 14972262661 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context | 17 | |
| 14972318693 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 18 | |
| 14972344304 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 19 | |
| 14972348243 | analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 20 | |
| 14972356977 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 14972356978 | idiom | a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 22 | |
| 14972365236 | metaphor | comparison not using like or as | 23 | |
| 14972374051 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 24 | |
| 14972390495 | synecdoche | a kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. | 25 | |
| 14972414759 | simile | comparing two things using like or as | 26 | |
| 14972427280 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another | 27 | |
| 14972437305 | personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 28 | |
| 14972443874 | foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | 29 | |
| 14972448329 | genre | a major category or type of literature | 30 | |
| 14972462065 | gothic | writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death. | 31 | |
| 14972479207 | imagery | description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 32 | |
| 14972490304 | invective | abusive language | 33 | |
| 14972496657 | irony | when the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 34 | |
| 14972548165 | verbal irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 35 | |
| 14972553772 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 36 | |
| 14972580995 | situational irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 37 | |
| 14972607047 | juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 38 | |
| 14972612222 | mood | feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 39 | |
| 14972620938 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea in literary work | 40 | |
| 14972633348 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 41 | |
| 14972639940 | pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 42 | |
| 14972651162 | paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 43 | |
| 14972666412 | parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 44 | |
| 14972713935 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 45 | |
| 14972722014 | chiasmus | same words used twice in succession | 46 | |
| 14972730521 | antithesis | two opposite or contrasting word with parallel structure | 47 | |
| 14972759097 | zuegma (syllepsis) | when a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies. "The butler killed the lights, and then the mistress." "I quickly dressed myself and the salad." | 48 | |
| 14972788271 | parenthetical idea | parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence. | 49 | |
| 14972806008 | parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 50 | |
| 14972811087 | persona | the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story. | 51 | |
| 14972833830 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 52 | |
| 14972848030 | pun | a humorous play on words | 53 | |
| 14972887475 | rhetoric | the art of effective communication | 54 | |
| 14972922873 | aristotle's rhetorical triangle | the relationships between the writer, the audience, and the subject |  | 55 |
| 14972937628 | rhetorical question | a question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 56 | |
| 14972946646 | romanticism | literature characterized by an idealistic view of people and the world | 57 | |
| 14972971424 | sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 58 | |
| 14972981080 | satire | a work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). It targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals. | 59 | |
| 14973001585 | style | choices that a writer makes in diction, tone, and syntax | 60 | |
| 14973018947 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 61 | |
| 14973034640 | syntax/sentence variety | grammatical arrangement of words, grouping of words | 62 | |
| 14973038618 | theme | the central idea of a work | 63 | |
| 14973051440 | thesis | focus statement of a work | 64 | |
| 14973063589 | tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 65 | |
| 14973070048 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 66 | |
| 14973078428 | litotes | a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 67 |
