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| 5746630474 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between 2 different things or the relationship between them. Can explain someyhing unfamiliar with something more familiar. | 0 | |
| 5746630475 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words | 1 | |
| 5746630476 | Antithesis | A figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences with in a balance grammatical structure. | 2 | |
| 5746630477 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses and absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. | 3 | |
| 5746630478 | Diction | Related to style, diction refers to the writers word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. Word choice. | 4 | |
| 5746630479 | Figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. | 5 | |
| 5746630480 | Juxtaposition | Placing diss similar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side-by-side, especially for comparison or contrast. | 6 | |
| 5746630481 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech where in the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | 7 | |
| 5746630482 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 8 | |
| 5746630483 | Parallelism | The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 9 | |
| 5746630484 | Rhetoric | Describes the principles governing the art of writing affectively, Eloquently and persuasively. | 10 | |
| 5746630485 | Tone | similar to mood, describes the authors attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. | 11 | |
| 5746630486 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement present something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous and empathic. | 12 | |
| 5746630487 | Appeals to authority | Arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in the field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason. | 13 | |
| 5746630488 | Ethos | In rhetorical, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer or narrator | 14 | |
| 5746630489 | Ontomatopieia | A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes. The purpose of these words is to make a passage more affective for the reader or listener. | 15 | |
| 5746630490 | Pathos | That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. An argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity from the readers/listener. | 16 | |
| 5746630491 | Characterization | describing the individual quality of a person or thing. | 17 | |
| 5746630492 | Logos | an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. | 18 | |
| 5746630493 | Antecedent | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun | 19 | |
| 5746630494 | Anecdote | a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh. | 20 | |
| 5746630495 | Overstatement | an act of stating something more than it actually is in order to make the point more serious or important or beautiful. In literature, writers use it as a literary technique for the sake of humor, and for laying emphasis on a certain point. | 21 | |
| 5746630496 | Overstatement | to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline, as for emphasis. | 22 | |
| 5746630497 | Citation | a passage or source cited for this purpose. | 23 | |
| 5746630498 | Digression | the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work. | 24 |
