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| 6989225919 | Allegory | The device of using character and/ or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 6989225920 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 1 | |
| 6989225921 | Antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 2 | |
| 6989235758 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 3 | |
| 6989235759 | App strophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 4 | |
| 6989235760 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. An independent, or main, clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence | 5 | |
| 6989280292 | Colloquial/ Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. | 6 | |
| 6989280293 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 7 | |
| 6989280294 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 8 | |
| 6989280295 | Inductive | Reasoning from the specific to the general | 9 | |
| 6989280296 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 10 | |
| 6989280297 | Litotes | a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 11 | |
| 6989280298 | Morality play | Deals with personified virtues and vices | 12 | |
| 6989280299 | Motif | A simple device that serves as a basis for an expanded narrative: the motif is a recurring feature or symbol in the work | 13 | |
| 6989280300 | Narrative device | The ordering of events, withholding information until a climactic moment, and all tools the storyteller used to progress the story line | 14 | |
| 6989280301 | Oxymoron | An oxymoron is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox | 15 | |
| 6989280302 | Parallelism | Also referred to as a parallel construction or parallel structure, this term comes from Greek roots meaning "besides one another." It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 16 | |
| 6989280303 | Rhetoric | Describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 17 | |
| 6989280304 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another | 18 | |
| 6989280305 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part | 19 | |
| 6989280306 | Synesthesia | When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another | 20 |
