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| 12099744693 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally. i told you to clean your room a million times | 0 | |
| 12099744694 | diction | word choice | 1 | |
| 12099744695 | generic conventions | traditions for each genre | 2 | |
| 12099744696 | extended metaphor | A comparison between two things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. | 3 | |
| 12099744697 | genre | a major category or type of literature | 4 | |
| 12099744698 | figure of speech | a device used to produce figurative language (apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, etc) | 5 | |
| 12099744699 | homily | SERMON, spiritual advice formal speech | 6 | |
| 12099744700 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant "passed away" | 7 | |
| 12099744701 | didactic | primary aim of teaching | 8 | |
| 12099744702 | figurative language | not literal | 9 | |
| 12099744703 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 12099744704 | Imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 11 | |
| 12099744705 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 12 | |
| 12099744706 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 13 | |
| 12099744707 | analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 14 | |
| 12099744708 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 15 | |
| 12099744709 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 16 | |
| 12099744710 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 17 | |
| 12099744711 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 18 | |
| 12099744712 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 19 | |
| 12099744713 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 20 | |
| 12099744714 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 21 | |
| 12099744715 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 22 | |
| 12099744716 | colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | 23 | |
| 12099744717 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 24 | |
| 12099744718 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 25 | |
| 12099744719 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 26 | |
| 12099744720 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 27 | |
| 12099744721 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 28 | |
| 12099744722 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 29 | |
| 12099744723 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 30 | |
| 12099744724 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 31 | |
| 12099744725 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 32 | |
| 12099744726 | Sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 33 | |
| 12099744727 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions "We lived and laughed and loved and left." | 34 | |
| 12099744728 | Asyndenton | Deliberate lack of conjunctions "I CAME, I SAW I, CONQUERED" | 35 | |
| 12099744729 | Isocolon | A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. "I CAME, I SAW I, CONQUERED" "SHE RAN, HE RAN, I RAN" | 36 | |
| 12099744730 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | 37 | |
| 12099744731 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 38 | |
| 12099744732 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 39 | |
| 12099744733 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 40 | |
| 12099744734 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 41 | |
| 12099744735 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. | 42 | |
| 12099744736 | Trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. | 43 | |
| 12099744737 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 44 | |
| 12099744738 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 45 | |
| 12099744739 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 46 | |
| 12099744740 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 47 | |
| 12099744741 | caricature | an exaggerated portrayal of one's features | 48 | |
| 12099744742 | Litotes | understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. That was no pleasant journey | 49 | |
| 12099744743 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 50 | |
| 12099744744 | Synesthesia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another | 51 | |
| 12099744745 | Wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights | 52 | |
| 12099744746 | Pun | a humorous play on words | 53 | |
| 12099744747 | Bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity | 54 | |
| 12099744748 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 55 | |
| 12099744749 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 56 | |
| 12099744750 | Zeugma | Where one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence. | 57 |
