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| 7209816636 | Allegory | The device of using character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 0 | |
| 7209816637 | Antecedent | The Word, Phase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 1 | |
| 7209816638 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas: the direct opposite. | 2 | |
| 7209816639 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 3 | |
| 7209816640 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction. Such as liberty or love | 4 | |
| 7209816641 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. An independent, or main. Clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. | 5 | |
| 7209816642 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. | 6 | |
| 7209816643 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 7 | |
| 7209816644 | Deductive | Reasoning from general to the specific | 8 | |
| 7209816645 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 9 | |
| 7209816646 | Inductive | Reasoning from the specific to the general | 10 | |
| 7209816647 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 11 | |
| 7209816648 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 12 | |
| 7209816649 | Morality play | Deals with personified virtues and vices | 13 | |
| 7209816650 | Motif | A simple device that serves as a basis for an expanded narrative: the motif is a recurring feature or symbol in the work | 14 | |
| 7209816651 | Narrative device | The ordering of events, withholding information until a climatic moment, and all tools the storyteller uses the progress the story line | 15 | |
| 7209816652 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | 16 | |
| 7209816653 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 17 | |
| 7209816654 | Rhetoric | Describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 18 | |
| 7209816655 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relations to one another | 19 | |
| 7209816656 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part. | 20 | |
| 7209816657 | Synesthesia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another | 21 |
