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| 4819581468 | allegory | a story in which the people, places and things represent general concepts or moral qualities | 0 | |
| 4819582795 | colloquial expression | words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing | 1 | |
| 4819585665 | euphemism | the use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but also less distasteful or offensive than another | 2 | |
| 4819589447 | figure of speech | a word or expression that is not mean to be interpreted in the literal sense | 3 | |
| 4819591808 | imagery | lively descriptions which impress the images of things upon the mind | 4 | |
| 4819594427 | metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar | 5 | |
| 4819596887 | motif | a recurring feature (name, image, phrase) in a work of literature | 6 | |
| 4819598010 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms | 7 | |
| 4819599524 | paradox | a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first to be self-contradictory and untrue | 8 | |
| 4819602353 | simile | a figure of speech involving a comparison using "like" or "as" | 9 | |
| 4819603853 | symbol | something that stands for another thing; frequently an object used to represent an abstraction | 10 |
