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| 14737815293 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
| 14737815294 | allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as a myth. | 1 | |
| 14737815295 | anadiplosis | repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next. - Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. | 2 | |
| 14737815296 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row. - Reach for a leaf. Reach for a cloud. Reach for a sky of blue. | 3 | |
| 14737815297 | anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. - This much we pledge - and more. - About suffering they were never wrong. | 4 | |
| 14737815298 | antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. - I mean what I say, and I say what I mean. - If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. | 5 | |
| 14737815299 | antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. - Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. | 6 | |
| 14737815300 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. - A penny saved is a penny earned. - Winners never quit and quitters never win. | 7 | |
| 14737815301 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction. | 8 | |
| 14737815302 | apposition | placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. - My sister, Christine, was on television last night. - Have you ever seen the movie Bring The Soul? | 9 | |
| 14737815303 | assonance | repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 10 | |
| 14737815304 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 11 | |
| 14737815305 | circumlocution | an indirect way of expressing something. | 12 | |
| 14737815306 | climax | the most exciting, intense or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 13 | |
| 14737815307 | consonance | repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 14 | |
| 14737815308 | denotation | the literal explicit meaning of a word, without its connotation. | 15 | |
| 14737815309 | connotation | a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. | 16 | |
| 14737815310 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 17 | |
| 14737815311 | ellipsis | three periods indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation. | 18 | |
| 14737815312 | epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning. - Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. - Love is something only understood by those who are no longer in love. | 19 | |
| 14737815313 | epistrophe | ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word(s). - I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, - See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. | 20 | |
| 14737815314 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. | 21 | |
| 14737815315 | extended metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. | 22 | |
| 14737815316 | figures of speech | the various uses of language that depart from customary construction, order, or significance. | 23 | |
| 14737815317 | foreshadowing | a narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 24 | |
| 14737815318 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 25 | |
| 14737815319 | imagery | descriptions that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in the reader's mind. | 26 | |
| 14737815320 | 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. | 27 | |
| 14737815321 | 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. | 28 | |
| 14737815322 | dramatic irony | irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters. | 29 | |
| 14737815323 | malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar. | 30 | |
| 14737815324 | metaphor | a comparison without using like or as. | 31 | |
| 14737815325 | mood | feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. | 32 | |
| 14737815326 | motivation | a character's incentive or reason for behaving in a certain manner; that which impels a character to act. | 33 | |
| 14737815327 | narration | the telling of a story. | 34 | |
| 14737815328 | onomatopoeia | the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes. | 35 | |
| 14737815329 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 36 | |
| 14737815330 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 37 | |
| 14737815331 | parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other. - Either she likes to see him or she doesn't like to see him. | 38 | |
| 14737815332 | periphrasis | the use of excessive and longer words to convey a meaning which could have been conveyed with a shorter expression or in fewer words. | 39 | |
| 14737815333 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 40 | |
| 14737815334 | plot | the sequence of events in a literary work. | 41 | |
| 14737815335 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told. | 42 | |
| 14737815336 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural. | 43 | |
| 14737815337 | prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry. | 44 | |
| 14737815338 | protagonist | the main character in a literary work. | 45 | |
| 14737815339 | 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. | 46 | |
| 14737815340 | repetition | repeated use of words, sounds, or ideas for effect and emphasis. | 47 | |
| 14737815341 | rhetorical question | a question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 48 | |
| 14737815342 | rhyme | repetition of sounds at the end of words. | 49 | |
| 14737815343 | sarcasm | witty language used to convey insults or scorn. | 50 | |
| 14737815344 | satire | a work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. | 51 | |
| 14737815345 | setting | the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 52 | |
| 14737815346 | shift | a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, insight, or realization gained by the speaker or a character. | 53 | |
| 14737815347 | simile | a comparison using like or as. | 54 | |
| 14737815348 | sound devices | elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia - gives poetry a musical quality. | 55 | |
| 14737815349 | structure | the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work. | 56 | |
| 14737815350 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work. | 57 | |
| 14737815351 | suspense | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story. | 58 | |
| 14737815352 | symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.. | 59 | |
| 14737815353 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole. - Do you like my new wheels? (Do you like my new car?) | 60 | |
| 14737815354 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 61 | |
| 14737815355 | theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work. | 62 | |
| 14737815356 | tone | a writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 63 | |
| 14737815357 | understatement (litotes) | deliberately underplaying or undervaluing a thing to create emphasis. | 64 |
