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| 14857605294 | Active Voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 14857609155 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 14857625498 | Alter-Ego | A character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts; when an author speaks directly to the audience through a character. | 2 | |
| 14857632234 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 3 | |
| 14857640495 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 14857645694 | Classicism | Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures. | 5 | |
| 14857649750 | Comic Relief | When a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood somewhat. | 6 | |
| 14857652659 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 7 | |
| 14857655245 | Connotation | Rather than the dictionary definition, the associations associated by a word. Implied meaning rather than literal meaning or denotation. | 8 | |
| 14857659519 | Diction | Word choice, particularly as an element of style. | 9 | |
| 14857667493 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 14857671106 | Jargon | The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity. Lawyers and soccer players use this | 11 | |
| 14857687631 | Vernacular | 1) everyday language 2) Language or dialect of a region or group 3) Language or dialect of a specific country | 12 | |
| 14879100675 | Didactic | A term used to describe fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 13 | |
| 14879123631 | Adage | A folk saying with a lesson | 14 | |
| 14879128066 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 15 | |
| 14879154164 | Aphorism | A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 16 | |
| 14879164212 | Ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context | 17 | |
| 14879168874 | Euphemism | A agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 18 | |
| 14879189344 | Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 19 | |
| 14879192525 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 20 | |
| 14879201443 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 14879209916 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 22 | |
| 14879209917 | Metaphor | an implied comparison | 23 | |
| 14879213751 | Metonymy | Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept. | 24 | |
| 14879237316 | Synecdoche | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. | 25 | |
| 14879267277 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 26 | |
| 14879267278 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 27 | |
| 14879273303 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 28 | |
| 14879276233 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 29 | |
| 14879279754 | Antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 30 | |
| 14879315198 | Zuegma (Syllepsis) | When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies. | 31 | |
| 14879336473 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 32 | |
| 14879343267 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 33 | |
| 14879348596 | Pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 34 | |
| 14879364694 | Poetic Devices | A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines. | 35 | |
| 14879367649 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 36 | |
| 14879375241 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 37 | |
| 14879383636 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 38 | |
| 14879389352 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 39 | |
| 14879391892 | Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 40 | |
| 14879399443 | Slant Rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme | 41 | |
| 14879402665 | End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 42 | |
| 14879407042 | Rhyme Scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 43 | |
| 14879413953 | Stressed and unstressed syllables | In every word of more than one syllable, one of the syllables is stressed, or said with more force than the other syllable(s). In the name "Nathan," the first syllable is stressed. In the word "unhappiness," the second of the four syllables is stressed. | 44 | |
| 14879417105 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 45 | |
| 14879420984 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 46 | |
| 14879426461 | iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 47 | |
| 14879433512 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 48 | |
| 14879439019 | Polysyndetion | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 49 | |
| 14879444384 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 50 | |
| 14879447127 | Sentence | A group of words that expresses a complete thought | 51 | |
| 14879456236 | Appostive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 52 |
