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| 3064727603 | Verisimilitude | The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience. | 0 | |
| 3064740090 | Voice | The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona. | 1 | |
| 3077614233 | Zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning. Examples: He governs his will and his kingdom. | 2 | |
| 3077628318 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. Example: an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. Usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. | 3 | |
| 3077644385 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). The repetition can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage. | 4 | |
| 3106205615 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known. | 5 | |
| 3106226640 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 6 | |
| 3106230247 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things. Can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. | 7 | |
| 3106241513 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 8 | |
| 3107009477 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite | 9 | |
| 3107013960 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. Can be a memorable summation of the author's point | 10 | |
| 3107019459 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot asnwer. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. | 11 | |
| 3107035118 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly be the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. Frequently foreshadows events. Can create a mood. | 12 | |
| 3107052655 | 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. | 13 | |
| 3107062852 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 14 | |
| 3107068585 | Colloquial | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Expressions in writing include local or regional dialects. | 15 | |
| 3127152182 | Colloquialism | give a work a conversational, familiar tone. | 16 | |
| 3107079492 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. Displays intellectual cleverness as a result of the unusual comparison being made. | 17 | |
| 3107092176 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. May involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes | 18 | |
| 3107093621 | denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | 19 | |
| 3107095474 | Diction | Related to style, refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. | 20 |
