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| 7253835066 | Allegory | Using character symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to literal meaning ex. animal farm | 0 | |
| 7253835903 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially consonants ex. "the soul selects her own society" | 1 | |
| 7253836812 | Allusion | A reference to an outside source, such as a book ex: "plan ahead, it wasnt raining when noah built his ark" | 2 | |
| 7253837919 | Analogy | Comparison of two different things or the relationship between them ex;ignorance | 3 | |
| 7253840550 | Anecdote | short story | 4 | |
| 7253840942 | Connotation | non-literal, associative meaning of a word | 5 | |
| 7253841461 | Denotation | Strict, dictionary definiton of a word | 6 | |
| 7253841950 | Diction | The writer's word choices in regard to effectiveness and clarity | 7 | |
| 7253843531 | extended metaphor | a metaphor that is constant throughout the whole work ex. mark twain's life on the Mississippi | 8 | |
| 7253845904 | Figurative language | Speech or writing that departs from literal meaning to get a special effect or meaning | 9 | |
| 7253848215 | Flashback | A device to present events of the past | 10 | |
| 7253849059 | Hyperbole | Speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement ex: bart stops to smell the roosevelts | 11 | |
| 7253850972 | Irony | contrast of what is stated explicitly and what is really meant | 12 | |
| 7253851387 | Metaphor | implied comparison of seemingly unlike things, suggesting some similarity | 13 | |
| 7253852612 | Mood | emotional aura of a work | 14 | |
| 7253853173 | oxymoron | contradictory words or phrases: jumbo shrimp | 15 | |
| 7253854009 | Personification | giving inanimate objects human attributes and emotions | 16 | |
| 7253855924 | Point of view | perspective in which the story is being told | 17 | |
| 7253856382 | Pun | a play on wordsd | 18 |
