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| 5318144397 | hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 0 | |
| 5318144398 | imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe arouse a motion or represent abstractions | 1 | |
| 5318144399 | inference/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information present | 2 | |
| 5318144400 | invective | an emotionally violent verbal denunciation or attack using strong abusive language | 3 | |
| 5318144401 | irony | The contrast between what is stated explicity and what is really meant | 4 | |
| 5318144402 | litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 5 | |
| 5318144403 | loose sentence/non-periodic sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first followed by a dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses | 6 | |
| 5318144404 | metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things for the substitution of one for the other suggesting some similarity | 7 | |
| 5318144405 | metonymy | A term from the Greek meaning "change label" or "substitute name" It is a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 8 | |
| 5318144406 | mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work | 9 | |
| 5318144407 | narrative | The telling of the story or an account of an event or series of events | 10 | |
| 5318144408 | onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which a natural sounds or imitated in Examples: buzz, hiss, hum | 11 | |
| 5318144409 | oxymoron | from the Greek for "pointedly foolish" A figure of speech where in the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | 12 | |
| 5318144410 | paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 13 | |
| 5318144411 | parallelism | also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure this term come from Greek roots meaning "beside one another" | 14 | |
| 5318144412 | Anphora | A subtype of parallelism when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences | 15 | |
| 5318144413 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | 16 | |
| 5318144414 | pedantic | an attitude that describes words phrases or general tone that is overly scholarly academic or bookish | 17 | |
| 5318144415 | periodic sentence | The opposite of loose sentence a sentence that presents a central meaning in a main clause at the end | 18 | |
| 5318144416 | Point of view | in literature, the perspective from which a story is told | 19 | |
| 5318144417 | first person narrator | tells the story with the first person pronoun "I" and is a character in the story | 20 | |
| 5318144418 | third person narrator | relates the events with the third person pronouns "he" "she" and "it" | 21 | |
| 5318144419 | prose | One of the major divisions of genre it refers to fiction and nonfiction including all it's forms | 22 | |
| 5318144420 | repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, or clause a sentence or grammatical pattern | 23 | |
| 5318144421 | rhetoric | from the Greek for "orator", this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 24 | |
| 5318144422 | rhetorical modes | this flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing | 25 |
