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| 3730151920 | allegory | the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in additional to the literal meaning | 0 | |
| 3730151921 | homily | this term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advices | 1 | |
| 3730153993 | caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics | 2 | |
| 3730155379 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly address an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty | 3 | |
| 3730157927 | antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite | 4 | |
| 3730157928 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains | 5 | |
| 3730163438 | pedantic tone | general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | 6 | |
| 3730165301 | colloquialism | use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | 7 | |
| 3730166650 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passge | 8 | |
| 3730167951 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 9 | |
| 3730169423 | ad hominem | (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining | 10 | |
| 3730171542 | omniscient narrator | the voice in which a story is written that is outside the story and that knows everything about the characters and events in the story | 11 | |
| 3730176445 | extended metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph | 12 | |
| 3730176446 | satire | a work that targets human vices and follies or social institution and conventions for reform or ridicule | 13 | |
| 3730179237 | inference | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the info presented | 14 | |
| 3730180510 | didactic | emphasizes the idea that different forms of art and literature ought to convey information and instructions along with pleasure and entertainment | 15 | |
| 3730183601 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 16 | |
| 3730185488 | convoluted diction | very complicated and difficult to understand | 17 | |
| 3730186707 | anaphora | a sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences | 18 |
