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| 4742288276 | Allegory | The device of using character/story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 4742288277 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more words. | 1 | |
| 4742288278 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something commonly known. | 2 | |
| 4742288279 | Anaphora | Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive ones of poetry. | 3 | |
| 4742288280 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 4742288281 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen or contrast a certain point. | 5 | |
| 4742288282 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 6 | |
| 4742288283 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 7 | |
| 4742288284 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. | 8 | |
| 4742288285 | Asyndeton | Deliberately leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. | 9 | |
| 4742288286 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 10 | |
| 4742288287 | Colloquial Lang. | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. | 11 | |
| 4742288288 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word. | 12 | |
| 4742288289 | Denotation | The strict, literal meaning of a word. | 13 | |
| 4742288290 | Diction | Related to style, diction refers to the writers choice of words. | 14 | |
| 4742288291 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally offensive word or concept; political correctness. | 15 | |
| 4742288292 | Figurative Lang. | Writing or speech not intended to carry literal meaning, usually meant to be imaginative or vivid. | 16 | |
| 4742288293 | Figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things. | 17 | |
| 4742288294 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech used to deliberate exaggeration or an overstatement. | 18 | |
| 4742288295 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to arouse emotion or represent abstractions. | 19 | |
| 4742288296 | Irony | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or between what appears to be and what is actually true. | 20 | |
| 4742288297 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying it's opposite; opposite of hyperbole. | 21 | |
| 4742288298 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seeing like unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. | 22 | |
| 4742288299 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 23 | |
| 4742288300 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds or imitated in the sounds of words. | 24 | |
| 4742288301 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. | 25 | |
| 4742288302 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposite to common sense, but upon further inspection, contains some degree of truth or validity. | 26 | |
| 4742288303 | Parallelism | Referring to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural familiarity. | 27 | |
| 4742288304 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that contains it's central meaning in a main clause at the end, which is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone, adding emphasis and structural variety. | 28 | |
| 4742288305 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by giving them human attributes. | 29 | |
| 4742288306 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions from David Gerlenter's editorial "Kick calculators out of class". | 30 | |
| 4742288307 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions me conventions for reform or ridicule. | 31 | |
| 4742288308 | Style | The sum of the choices made by the author involving diction, syntax, figurative language, and other elements. | 32 | |
| 4766947954 | Subordinate clause | Contains both a subject and a verb but unlike an independent clause, it cannot stand alone; it does not complete a full thought. | 33 | |
| 4766947955 | Symbolism | Generally, anything that represents itself, but stands for something else. Though usually concrete, it can be more complex than as well. | 34 | |
| 4766947956 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent a whole, or vice versa. | 35 | |
| 4766947957 | Synesthesia | When one sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. Ex: The sight of red ants makes you itchy. | 36 | |
| 4766947958 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join in words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 37 | |
| 4766947959 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact; expressing something as less significant than it is. | 38 | |
| 4766947960 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word, usually a verb, modifies or governs two or more words in a sentence. | 39 | |
| 5536217281 | ANACOLUTHON | an interruption on sentence structure; an unpredicted change in grammatical sequence. | 40 | |
| 5536227518 | ANADIPLOSIS | a repeated word or phrase at both the end of the sentence or clause at the beginning of the next. | 41 | |
| 5536233227 | ANTHYPOPHORA | when a character poses a question and immediately answers it. | 42 | |
| 5536238563 | ANTIMERIA | the use of a word in a new grammatical form. | 43 | |
| 5536245312 | ANTIPROSOPOPOEIA | a metaphor comparing a person to personified object. | 44 | |
| 5536253507 | ANTONOMASIA | when you substitute a proper name for an epithet or a nickname. | 45 | |
| 5536258748 | APOSIOPESIS | when an idea is left unsaid or a sentence is broken off in the middle of an idea. | 46 | |
| 5536268625 | ASTERISMOS | a seemingly unnecessary word or phrase that introduces what you are about to say. | 47 | |
| 5536280548 | CHIASMUS | a rhetorical formation where the order of a pair of words or phrases are inverted from one clause to the next. | 48 | |
| 5536287877 | CONGERY | when you use repetition, but with a number of different words or phrases that mean the same thing. | 49 | |
| 5536293291 | DIALOGISMUS | to imagine what someone else might be thinking. | 50 | |
| 5536297794 | DYSPHEMISM | a harsh or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one. | 51 | |
| 5536310074 | EUTREPISMUS | the numbering or ordering of a series of phrases that are under consideration. | 52 | |
| 5546079023 | EPEDITIO | the rejection of all but one of various alternatives. | 53 |
