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| 7461744025 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 7461744026 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 1 | |
| 7461744027 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 2 | |
| 7461744028 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 3 | |
| 7461744029 | Apostrophe | A girl gure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman. Such as liberty or love | 4 | |
| 7461744030 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 5 | |
| 7461744031 | Diction | related to style, refers to the writer's word choices | 6 | |
| 7461744032 | Euphemism | From the Greek for "good speech".... are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 7 | |
| 7461744033 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. | 8 | |
| 7461744034 | inference/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented | 9 | |
| 7461744035 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other suggesting some similarity | 10 | |
| 7461744036 | Metonymy | A term from the Greek meaning "changed label" or "substitute name" a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 11 | |
| 7461744037 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | 12 | |
| 7461744038 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions | 13 | |
| 7461744039 | Prose | One of the major divisions of genre including all the forms of fiction and non-fiction | 14 | |
| 7461744040 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 15 | |
| 7461744041 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule | 16 | |
| 7461744042 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" "if" | 17 | |
| 7461744043 | Syllogism | From the Greek for "reckoning together" a syllogism is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion | 18 | |
| 7461744044 | symbol/symbolism | Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | 19 | |
| 7461744045 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, sentences. | 20 | |
| 7461744046 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 21 | |
| 7461744047 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. | 22 |
