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| 10527290149 | asyndeton | leaves out a conjuction between a list for effect ex: he was tall, dark, handsome | 0 | |
| 10534747599 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 1 | |
| 10534749994 | conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 2 | |
| 10534752419 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 3 | |
| 10534756820 | invective | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language | 4 | |
| 10534759813 | sarcasm | From the Greek meaning "to tear flesh," sarcasm involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. It may use irony as a device, but not all ironic statements are sarcastic (that is, intended to ridicule). | 5 | |
| 10534774670 | litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite (ex: I am not that strong of a swimmer.) | 6 | |
| 10527290151 | understatement | intentionally giving a lesser description ex: I did NOTHING at school today | 7 | |
| 10527290152 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration ex: This room is as cold as the Ice Age | 8 | |
| 10527290153 | antithesis | contrasting any of the parts of a statement ex: The love that was once an oasis is now a barren desert | 9 | |
| 10527290155 | rhetorical question | asking a question and the answer is implied ex: How can we expect a man to give more than we ourselves are willing to give? | 10 | |
| 10527290157 | allusion | a reference to a well-known event, place or person ex: He hammered the ball the way Babe Ruth did | 11 | |
| 10527290161 | aphorism | a short statement that gives and observation about life ex: a stitch in time saves nine | 12 | |
| 10527290163 | paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory but later reveals a truth ex: Much madness is the divinest sense ex: falling in love | 13 | |
| 10527290164 | anecdote | a brief story meant to prove a point | 14 | |
| 10527290165 | personification | giving things human characteristics | 15 | |
| 10527290169 | synechdoche | using a part of something instead of referring to the whole ex: The rancher boasted about how many head of cattle he had ex: The captain needed all hands on deck | 16 | |
| 10527290170 | metonymy | referring to something closely related to the actual object, person, or thing ex: The White House made a last minute decision ex: The brass showed up to take witness statements | 17 | |
| 10527290172 | Transcendentalism | a 19th-century idealistic philosophical and social movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity | 18 | |
| 10527290173 | Romanticism | an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840 (The movement valued feeling over reason) | 19 | |
| 10527290178 | denotation | a word's literal meaning | 20 | |
| 10527290179 | connotation | the association evoked by words beyond its literal meaning. It reflects broad cultural associations (ethos) | 21 | |
| 10527290180 | allegory | type of narrative that has two levels of meaning: surface and deeper | 22 | |
| 10527290181 | ambiguity | result of something being stated in such a law that its meaning cannot be determined definitely | 23 | |
| 10527290182 | syntax | a. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language b. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words c. the rules or pattens so studied: English syntax | 24 | |
| 10527290192 | analogy | a comparison of the similar characteristics of two unlike things | 25 | |
| 10527290193 | antagonists | character who opposes protagonist | 26 | |
| 10527290194 | apostrophe | addressing or speaking to some abstract quality or non-human entity | 27 | |
| 10527290195 | archetype | story or pattern repeated from generation to generation ex: searching for the fountain of youth, selling your soul to the devil | 28 | |
| 10527290196 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 29 | |
| 10527290197 | chiasmus | a figure of speech in which a grammatical structure is repeated but in inverse order ex: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country | 30 | |
| 10527290198 | colloquial | language that is informal or familiar to a group of people | 31 | |
| 10527290199 | consonance | where a poet repeats the identical consonant sounds typically in the last syllable of words | 32 | |
| 10527290206 | juxtaposition | the placement of items of close together often for purposes of contrasting or comparision | 33 | |
| 10527290207 | logos | rhetorical appeal focusing on logic | 34 | |
| 10527290208 | ethos | rhetorical appeal focusing on ethics (what is accepted among people who live in same time and place) | 35 | |
| 10527290209 | pathos | rhetorical appeal focusing on emotions | 36 | |
| 10534784128 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 37 | |
| 10534788907 | syllogism | a logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion | 38 | |
| 10534792118 | loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses | 39 | |
| 10534794201 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 40 | |
| 10534795324 | parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 41 | |
| 10534800986 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 42 | |
| 10534801866 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule (satire) | 43 | |
| 10534810186 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 44 | |
| 10534812106 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 45 | |
| 10535530417 | oxymoron | A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms | 46 | |
| 10535533502 | 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. | 47 | |
| 10535535933 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 48 | |
| 10535536945 | inference | A conclusion one can draw from the presented details. | 49 | |
| 10535541493 | imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. | 50 |
