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| 4632515526 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 4632526428 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 1 | |
| 4632526429 | allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 2 | |
| 4632526430 | ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language | 3 | |
| 4632526830 | analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 4 | |
| 4632526831 | anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they | 5 | |
| 4632526832 | antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another | 6 | |
| 4632528305 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 7 | |
| 4632528306 | aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 8 | |
| 4632529198 | apostrophe | a punctuation mark ( ' ) used to indicate either possession | 9 | |
| 4632530294 | assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 10 | |
| 4632530775 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 11 | |
| 4632530776 | attitude | a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior | 12 | |
| 4632530777 | atmosphere | the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet | 13 | |
| 4632531786 | caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect | 14 | |
| 4632531787 | chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | 15 | |
| 4632532419 | claim | state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof | 16 | |
| 4632532918 | clause | a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate | 17 | |
| 4632533747 | colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary | 18 | |
| 4632621501 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation | 19 | |
| 4632537570 | compare and contrast | To contrast something is to look for differences among two or more elements, but compare is to do the opposite, to look for similarities | 20 | |
| 4632537571 | conceit | excessive pride in oneself | 21 | |
| 4632538042 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 22 | |
| 4632564397 | consonance | agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions | 23 | |
| 4632564974 | deductive reasoning | Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. Deductive reasoning is sometimes referred to as top-down logic. Its counterpart, inductive reasoning, is sometimes referred to as bottom-up logic | 24 | |
| 4632564975 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 25 | |
| 4632564976 | dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group | 26 | |
| 4632566250 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 27 | |
| 4632566251 | dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play | 28 | |
| 4632570671 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 29 | |
| 4632570672 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 30 | |
| 4632571724 | epitaph | a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone | 31 | |
| 4632571725 | enthymeme | an argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated | 32 | |
| 4632572395 | ethos | the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations | 33 | |
| 4632572396 | euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 34 | |
| 4632572802 | exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory | 35 | |
| 4632572803 | extended metaphor | refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph | 36 | |
| 4632573269 | eulogy | a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died | 37 | |
| 4632574343 | figurative language | language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating the facts as they are | 38 | |
| 4632574344 | figure of speech | a word or phrase used in a nonliteral sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage | 39 | |
| 4632574881 | flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story | 40 | |
| 4632574882 | generic conventions | this term describes traditions for each genre. these conventions helpto define eachgenre,for example,they diffentiate between an essay and journalistic writing or an autobiography and political writing | 41 | |
| 4632575229 | genre | the major category into which a literary work fits. basic divisions of genre are prose,poetry and drama | 42 | |
| 4632575230 | homily | this term literally means 'sermon' but more informally, it can include serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 43 | |
| 4632575231 | hyperbole | a figure of speech using diliberate exaggeration or overstatement. Have a comic effect; however,a serious effect is possible | 44 | |
| 4632575639 | imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions | 45 | |
| 4632576360 | inductive reasoning | reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying strong evidence for the truth of the conclusion | 46 | |
| 4632576361 | inference/infer | to draw reasonable conclusions from the information presented | 47 | |
| 4632581653 | irony/ironic | the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant; the difference between what appears to be and what actually is true | 48 | |
| 4632581654 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 49 | |
| 4632581999 | juxtaposition | literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts | 50 | |
| 4632582000 | litotes | figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions | 51 | |
| 4632582001 | logos | literary device that can be defined as a statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic | 52 | |
| 4632583385 | loose sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by the dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. If a period were placed at the end of the independent clause, the clause would be a complete sentence | 53 | |
| 4632583838 | metaphor | a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. Metaphorical language makes writing more vivid, imaginative thought provoking and meaningful | 54 | |
| 4632584195 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing | 55 | |
| 4632584197 | mood | indicative mood- only for factual sentences. Subjenctive- used for a doubtful or conditional attitude | 56 | |
| 4632584801 | narrative | the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events | 57 | |
| 4632584802 | onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words | 58 | |
| 4632586114 | oxymoron | from the greek for "pointlessly foolish"- figure of speech where in the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest paradox | 59 | |
| 4632586115 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposed tocommon sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 60 | |
| 4632586116 | parallelism | also reffered to as parallel structure. refers to grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentances or paragraphs to give structural similarity | 61 | |
| 4632586564 | parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim or comic effect and or ridicule. As comedy,parody distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original. As ridicule, it mimics the work by repeating or borrowing words, phrases or characteristics to illuminate weaknesses in the original | 62 | |
| 4632586565 | pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness | 63 | |
| 4632587231 | pedantic | an adjective that describes words, phrases or general tone that is overly scholarly,academic or bookish | 64 | |
| 4632587232 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end | 65 | |
| 4632587616 | personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inatimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions | 66 | |
| 4632587617 | point of view | the persepctive from which a story is told | 67 | |
| 4632588004 | 1st person narrator | First person narrative is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing. First person can be recognized by the use of I or we | 68 | |
| 4632588005 | 3rd person narrator | story told in the grammatical third person, i.e. without using "I" or "we" | 69 | |
| 4632588645 | 3rd person omniscient | Third person omniscient is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third person limited, which adheres closely to one character's perspective | 70 | |
| 4632589087 | 3rd person limited | In third person limited the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they', 'he', and 'she'. But, one character is closely followed throughout the story, and it is typically a main character | 71 | |
| 4632589481 | prose | one of the major divisions of genre, it refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all forms, because they are written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech | 72 | |
| 4632589482 | rebuttal | a refutation or contradiction | 73 | |
| 4632814346 | refutation | refutation denotes that part of an argument where a speaker or a writer encounters contradicting points of view | 74 | |
| 4632589872 | repetition | the duplication, either exact of approximate, or any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase sentence or grammatical pattern | 75 | |
| 4632589873 | rhetoric | describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively,eloquently and persuasively | 76 | |
| 4632589874 | rhetorical modes | the flexible term describes the variety,the conventions and the purposes of the major kinds of writing.[exposition-to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence and appropriate discussion][arugmentation-prove validity of an idea point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion and argument that thoroughly convinces the reader][description- recreate, invent or visually present a person, place,event or action sothat the reader can picture that being described | 77 | |
| 4632590321 | sarcasm | bitter or caustic language that is meant to hurt of ridicule someone or something | 78 | |
| 4632590322 | satire | a workthat targets humanvices and follies or social insitutions and conventions, for reform or ridicule | 79 | |
| 4632590323 | semantics | the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning | 80 | |
| 4632590631 | simile | an explicet comparison, normally using like, as or if | 81 | |
| 4632590632 | situational irony | literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead | 82 | |
| 4632590633 | style | evaluation of the sum of choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax,figurative language and other literary devices. Classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors | 83 | |
| 4632592169 | syllogism | is a deductive systemof formal logic that presents two premises-the first one called major and the second minor- that inevitable lead to a sound conclusion | 84 | |
| 4632592170 | symbol | anything that represents or stands for something else | 85 | |
| 4632802412 | symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | 86 | |
| 4632592689 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 87 | |
| 4632593902 | syntax | the way the author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 88 | |
| 4632593903 | theme | the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 89 | |
| 4632593904 | thesis | the sentance or group of sentances that directly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition | 90 | |
| 4632593905 | tone | similar tomood, ___ describes the authors attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both | 91 | |
| 4632594327 | transition | a word or phrase that links different ideas. Used especially although not exculsively, inexpository and arugmentative writing, transtitions effectively signal a shift from one idea or another | 92 | |
| 4632594328 | understatement | the ironic minimalizing of fact, ___ presents something as less significant that it is | 93 | |
| 4632594329 | 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 | 94 | |
| 4632595697 | voice | express (something) in words | 95 | |
| 4632596374 | zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 96 |
