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| 3521704330 | Homily | A sermon of speech that a religious person or priest delivers before a group of people to offer them moral correction | 0 | |
| 3521704331 | Genre | The type of art, literature, or music characterized by a specific form, content, and style | 1 | |
| 3521951790 | Extended metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem | 2 | |
| 3521951791 | Synechdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part | 3 | |
| 3521951792 | Elegy | A form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased | 4 | |
| 3521951793 | Epic | A long narrative poem | 5 | |
| 3521951794 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | 6 | |
| 3521951795 | Alliteration | A stylistic decide in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series | 7 | |
| 3521951796 | Assonance | Two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds | 8 | |
| 3521951797 | Diction | Word choice | 9 | |
| 3521951798 | Aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner; often applied to philosophical, moral, and literary principles | 10 | |
| 3521951799 | Satire | A writing technique to expose or criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule | 11 | |
| 3521951800 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance | 12 | |
| 3521951801 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 13 | |
| 3521951802 | Theme | A main idea or underlying meaning of literary work | 14 | |
| 3521951803 | Apostrophe | A writer or speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech | 15 | |
| 3521951804 | Epigram | A rhetorical decvice that is memorable, brief, interesting; surprising satirical statement | 16 | |
| 3521951805 | Motif | An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work | 17 | |
| 3521951806 | Symbol | A word, phrase, or image that represents something else | 18 | |
| 3521951807 | Dirge | A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work | 19 | |
| 3521951808 | Consonance | Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 20 | |
| 3521951809 | Onomatopoeia | A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing | 21 | |
| 3521951810 | Epitaph | An inscription written on a grave; usually brief, having figurative verse or in prose form | 22 | |
| 3521951811 | Fable | A concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end | 23 | |
| 3521951812 | Euphemism | Polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite | 24 | |
| 3521951813 | Juxtaposition | Two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are places side by side in a narrative or a poem for comparison/contrast | 25 | |
| 3521951814 | Metonymy | Figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else close associates with it | 26 | |
| 3521951815 | Chiasmus | Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect | 27 | |
| 3521951816 | Figurative language | Language in which figures of speech are used to make it effective, persuasive, and impactful | 28 | |
| 3522225009 | Denotation | Literary or diction meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative meaning | 29 | |
| 3522225010 | Prose | Language with no formal metrical structure; natural flow of speech | 30 | |
| 3522225011 | Structure | Relationship or organization of the component parts of a work of art or literature | 31 | |
| 3522225012 | Imagery | Sensory details | 32 | |
| 3522225013 | Caricature | Particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated to create a silly/comical effect | 33 | |
| 3522225014 | Didactic | Writing that seeks to overtly convince a reader of a particular point or lesson | 34 | |
| 3522225015 | Pathetic fallacy | Literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature | 35 | |
| 3522225016 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect | 36 | |
| 3522225017 | Litote | Employs an understatement by using double negatives | 37 | |
| 3522225018 | Personification | A thing, idea, or animal is given human attributes | 38 | |
| 3522225019 | Colloquialism | Use of informal words, phrases, or slang in writing | 39 | |
| 3522225020 | Connotation | A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which is describes explicitly | 40 | |
| 3522225021 | Pedantic | Someone who is concerned with precision, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning | 41 | |
| 3522225022 | Predicate adjectives | Adjective that is used to modify an attribute of the subject of the sentence | 42 | |
| 3522225023 | Predicate nominative | Noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the verb | 43 | |
| 3522225024 | Anathema | Detested person or thing | 44 | |
| 3522225025 | Myth | Legendary or traditional story w/o real evidence | 45 | |
| 3522225026 | Novel | Any extended fiction prose narrative | 46 | |
| 3522225027 | Parody | An imitation of a particular writer, artistic or genre; exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect | 47 | |
| 3522225028 | Rhetoric | Technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form | 48 | |
| 3522225029 | Subordinate clause | Clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence (dependent clause) | 49 | |
| 3522225030 | Periodic sentence | Main clause or predicate is held at the end | 50 | |
| 3522225031 | Rhetorical question | Question asked for effect or emphasis | 51 | |
| 3522225032 | Allegory | Abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events | 52 | |
| 3522225033 | Simile | Makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as" | 53 | |
| 3522225034 | Metaphor | Implicit/hidden comparison w/o "like" or "as" | 54 | |
| 3522225035 | Conceit | Figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors | 55 | |
| 3522225036 | Epithet | Describes a place, thing, or person in that is helps make characteristics of them more prominent than they actually are | 56 | |
| 3522225037 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis | 57 | |
| 3522225038 | Tone | Attituden of the writer towards subject or audience | 58 | |
| 3522225039 | Clause paradox | Statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include latent truth or value | 59 | |
| 3522225040 | Inversion | (Anastrophe); literary technique which the normal order of words is reversed to achieve a particular effect | 60 | |
| 3522225041 | Parallelism | Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in sound/meaning/meter | 61 | |
| 3522225042 | Situational irony | (Cosmic irony); trope in which accidental events over that seem oddly appropriate | 62 | |
| 3522225043 | Antithesis | Two opposite ideas are out together to achieve a contrasting effect | 63 | |
| 3522225044 | Balanced sentence | A sentence so dusting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure | 64 | |
| 3522225045 | Verbal irony | (Sarcasm); a speaker makes a statement in which its actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the words express | 65 | |
| 3522225046 | Dramatic irony | Situation in a narrative in which the reader m knows something about present or future circumstances that the character doesn't know | 66 | |
| 3522225047 | Cumulative sentence | Main clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions that gather details about a person, place, event, etc | 67 | |
| 3522225048 | Lyric | Short poem written in repeating form | 68 | |
| 3522225049 | Antecedent | Literary device in which a word or pronoun in a line or sentence refers to an earlier word | 69 | |
| 3522225050 | Subject complement | The adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb | 70 |
