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| 7212720991 | ambiguity | the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. | 0 | |
| 7212721238 | anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. | 1 | |
| 7212767678 | analogy | a comparison between two things | 2 | |
| 7212767679 | 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. | 3 | |
| 7212768326 | anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | 4 | |
| 7212768816 | anthropomorphism | he attributing of human characteristics and purposes to inanimate objects, animals, plants, or other natural phenomena, or to God. | 5 | |
| 7212768817 | aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it.". | 6 | |
| 7212769172 | aside | a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play. | 7 | |
| 7212769173 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 8 | |
| 7212770063 | catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | 9 | |
| 7212770468 | 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; e.g. 'Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.'. | 10 | |
| 7212770469 | cliché | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. | 11 | |
| 7212771360 | climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 12 | |
| 7212771872 | comic relief | is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene, or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. | 13 | |
| 7212772657 | context | the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. | 14 | |
| 7212772658 | denouement | the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. | 15 | |
| 7212773571 | deus ex machina | A plot device dating back to ancient Greek drama when a conflict was resolved through it means that was unrelated to the story | 16 | |
| 7212774398 | digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing. | 17 | |
| 7212774754 | doppleganger | It refers to a character who physically resembles the protagonist and may have the same name as well. | 18 | |
| 7212774755 | double-entendre | a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent. | 19 | |
| 7212775311 | epigram | a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. | 20 | |
| 7212775312 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 21 | |
| 7212776707 | epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 22 | |
| 7212776708 | end stop | An end-stopped line is a poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause or phrase); this pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semi-colon, period or full stop. | 23 | |
| 7212777243 | 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. | 24 | |
| 7212777875 | foil | a character who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist | 25 | |
| 7212777876 | foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 26 | |
| 7212778662 | frame story | a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part | 27 | |
| 7212778663 | kenning | which describe someone or something in confusing detail. | 28 | |
| 7212778664 | literal | taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory. | 29 | |
| 7212778665 | maxim | simple and memorable line, quote or rule for taking action and leading a good life | 30 | |
| 7212778978 | meter | is a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. | 31 | |
| 7212779611 | metonymy | It is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated | 32 | |
| 7212779612 | parody | produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre). | 33 | |
| 7212780573 | polysyndeton | s a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, | 34 | |
| 7212780574 | prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 35 | |
| 7212780575 | pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 36 | |
| 7212781206 | rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 37 | |
| 7212782103 | sibilance | a literary device where strongly stressed consonants are created deliberately by producing air from vocal tracts through the use of lips and tongue | 38 | |
| 7212782623 | stream of consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue | 39 | |
| 7212783078 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 40 | |
| 7212783564 | vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 41 | |
| 7212783565 | verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. | 42 | |
| 7212784389 | voice | the form or a format through which narrators tell their stories. | 43 | |
| 7295607753 | Apostrophe | A literary device which consists of a rhetorical pause or digression to address a person (distant or absent) directly | 44 |
