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| 6726862083 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 0 | |
| 6726862084 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words | 1 | |
| 6726862085 | Allusion | A reference to something that is commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art | 2 | |
| 6726862087 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things; using something well known to help explain something not as well known | 3 | |
| 6726862088 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 6726862089 | Aphorism | A statement of a general truth or moral principle expressed in a concise manner | 5 | |
| 6726862095 | Connotation | The nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning | 6 | |
| 6726862097 | Diction | Related to style, refers to the writer's word choice | 7 | |
| 6726862099 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 8 | |
| 6726862106 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis | 9 | |
| 6726862107 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe; uses terms related to the five senses | 10 | |
| 6726862110 | Irony | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant; the difference between what appears to be and what actually is true | 11 | |
| 6726862114 | Loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first; makes work often seem informal, relaxed, and conversational | 12 | |
| 6726862115 | Metaphor | comparison not using like or as | 13 | |
| 6726862116 | Metonymy | A figure of speech which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it (bread=money) | 14 | |
| 6726862122 | Onomatopoeia | "sound words" | 15 | |
| 6726862123 | Oxymoron | the author groups contradictory terms together (Jumbo Shrimp) | 16 | |
| 6726862124 | 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 | 17 | |
| 6726862128 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end | 18 | |
| 6726862143 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity | 19 | |
| 6726862144 | Style | An author's sum of choices that he or she makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices | 20 | |
| 6726862146 | Subordinate clause | Contains a subject and a verb but can not stand alone; gives information to an independent clause | 21 | |
| 6726862147 | Syllogism | logic that presents two premises, first major and second minor; connection of two true ideas Major premise: All men are mortal. Minor premise: Socrates is a man. Conclusion: Socrates is mortal. | 22 | |
| 6726862152 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 23 | |
| 6726862155 | Tone | Describes the author's attitude toward his or her material or the audience | 24 | |
| 6726862157 | Understatement | presenting something as less significant than it actually is. Makes a work humorous and emphatic | 25 | |
| 6726862173 | Litotes | Emphasizes a point by using a word opposite to the condition. | 26 | |
| 6726862174 | Antithesis | A structure that places contrasting ideas next to each other. | 27 | |
| 6726862176 | Rhetorical Question | A question that is asked to create an effect, not really to be answered. | 28 | |
| 6726862179 | Simile | A figure of speech using "like" or "as" to compare two things | 29 | |
| 6726862185 | Parallelism | Structuring multiple sentences, generally the same way, to link them all. | 30 | |
| 6726862186 | Chiasmus | The structure of two lines are crisscrossed. The beginning of the first is at the end of the second and vice versa. | 31 | |
| 6726862187 | Anadiplosis | Repeating the last word of a phrase or sentence near the beginning of the next. | 32 | |
| 6726862193 | Epithet | Adding a descriptive adjective to a noun to evoke an idea or emotion. | 33 | |
| 6726862194 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions in lists or between phrases, words, or clauses. | 34 | |
| 6726862195 | Polysyndeton | use of a lot of conjunctions. | 35 | |
| 6726862197 | Synecdoche | Using part of something to refer to another thing as a larger whole. | 36 | |
| 6726862200 | Anaphora | The use of the same word or phrase at the beginning of each phrase or sentence. | 37 | |
| 6726862204 | Personification | Giving human-like traits to something not human. | 38 | |
| 6726862249 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 39 | |
| 6726862260 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 40 | |
| 6726862261 | Logos | Appeal to logic; facts | 41 | |
| 6726862262 | Ethos | Appeal to ethics; credibility | 42 | |
| 6726862264 | Pun | Play on words; achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings | 43 | |
| 6726862294 | anecdote | a short narrative | 44 | |
| 6727282457 | appositive | a word or phrase is followed by a phrase that renames or identifies it (my teacher, Ms.Huber,...) | 45 | |
| 6727298429 | speaker's tone | the authors tone | 46 | |
| 6727303776 | double entendre | a word or phrase open to two interpretations | 47 | |
| 6727317800 | realism | a literary movement from fantasy; everyday life | 48 | |
| 6727332010 | ellipses | a symbol for the omission of words (...) | 49 | |
| 6727346865 | independent clause | a clause that can stand alone as a sentence | 50 | |
| 6727348282 | expletive | a sentence that starts with "it, here, there..." (idk what this means) | 51 |
