Literary Terms
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| 7509336181 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 7509336182 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 1 | |
| 7509336183 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly | 2 | |
| 7509519632 | Ambiguity | An aspect of writing (or concept) that is particularly unclear/ not understood | 3 | |
| 7509519633 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | 4 | |
| 7509519634 | Anaphora | A rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them of emphasis | 5 | |
| 7509519635 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another | 6 | |
| 7509519636 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 7 | |
| 7509519637 | Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth | 8 | |
| 7509519638 | Appostrophe | A figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation | 9 | |
| 7509519639 | Appeal to authority | An argument from the fact that a person is judged to be an authority affirms a proposition to the claim that the proposition is true | 10 | |
| 7509519640 | Appeal to ignorance | The fallacy that a proposition is true simply on the basis that it has not been proved false or that it's false simply because it has not been proved true | 11 | |
| 7509519641 | Argument | A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong | 12 | |
| 7509519642 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences | 13 | |
| 7509519643 | Character | a person in a novel, play, or movie | 14 | |
| 7509519644 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point (parallelism) | 15 | |
| 7529009854 | Circular argument | A logically in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with | 16 | |
| 7529009855 | Claim | A statement essentially arguable but used as a primary point to support or prove an argument | 17 | |
| 7529099522 | Clause | Is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a completer proposition. A typical clause consists of a subject and predicate | 18 | |
| 7529099523 | Climax | The height of the action or emotion in a literary work | 19 | |
| 7529099524 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically ends used in ordinary or familiar conversation | 20 | |
| 7529099525 | comparison | Distinguishing the similarities that exist between two or more things | 21 | |
| 7529099526 | Complement | A word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence | 22 | |
| 7529099527 | Concession | a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded | 23 | |
| 7529099528 | Confirmation | The acknowledgment that something is correct, true, accepted | 24 | |
| 7529099529 | Conjunction | Is a joiner, a word that connects parts of a sentence | 25 | |
| 7529099530 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes to its literal or primary meaning | 26 | |
| 7529099531 | Deduction | A process of reasoning in high a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented | 27 | |
| 7529099532 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 28 | |
| 7615398919 | Dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. | 29 | |
| 7615398920 | Diction | Word choice which is usually done on purpose | 30 | |
| 7615398921 | Didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 31 | |
| 7615398922 | encomium | A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly | 32 | |
| 7615683329 | Epitaph | a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died | 33 | |
| 7615683330 | Ethos | Greek for "character " | 34 | |
| 7615683331 | Eulogy | Is a speech or writing in praise of a person(s) or thing(s) | 35 | |
| 7615683332 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh | 36 | |
| 7615683333 | Exposition | The beginning of a literary work | 37 | |
| 7615683334 | Fallacy | A mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument | 38 | |
| 7615683335 | Figurative language | Is language that uses words or expressions wi5 a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation | 39 | |
| 7615683336 | Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. | 40 | |
| 7615683337 | Genre | a category of artistic composition | 41 | |
| 7615683338 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration in writing | 42 | |
| 7615683339 | Imagery | Wording ghat creates clarity of picture in mind | 43 | |
| 7615683340 | Induction | A conclusion reached through reasoning | 44 | |
| 7615683341 | Irony | The opposite of what you expect to happen | 45 | |
| 7615683342 | Jargon | Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 46 | |
| 7615683343 | Logos | Logical explanation in writing | 47 | |
| 7615683344 | Metaphor | A comparison between two or more things that does not utilize the words "like" and "as" | 48 | |
| 7615683345 | Mode of discourse | Describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing | 49 | |
| 7615683346 | Mood | A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions | 50 | |
| 7615683347 | Narrative | a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. | 51 | |
| 7615683348 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 52 | |
| 7615683349 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech the juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory (ground pilot) | 53 | |
| 7615683350 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | 54 | |
| 7670749590 | Parallelism | The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction | 55 | |
| 7670749591 | Parody | An imitative work created to imitate | 56 | |
| 7670749592 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 57 | |
| 7670749593 | Personification | The process of giving human characteristics to non-human objects or ideas | 58 | |
| 7670749594 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 59 | |
| 7670749595 | Refutation | The act of disagreeing with a statement/idea | 60 | |
| 7670749596 | Repetition | The act of repeating a word, phrase, etc. | 61 | |
| 7670749597 | Rhetoric | Persuasion | 62 | |
| 7670749598 | Rhetorical question | The figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point | 63 | |
| 7670749599 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 64 | |
| 7670813238 | Satire | The use of humor, irony; exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices | 65 | |
| 7670813239 | Simile | Comparison between two or more things using the words "like" or "as" | 66 | |
| 7670917900 | Style | The manner in which an author chooses to write to his or her audience | 67 | |
| 7670917901 | Syllogism | A kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion | 68 |
