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| 2917182493 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely related words | 0 | |
| 2917182494 | Allusion | referring back to something historical in the past | 1 | |
| 2917183757 | Analogy | a comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation | 2 | |
| 2917183758 | Anaphora | the repetition of the beginning of a sentence in order to achieve an effect | 3 | |
| 2917184860 | Anecdote | a short or amusing story about a person or incident | 4 | |
| 2917184861 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of another person or thing | 5 | |
| 2917185998 | Aphorism | an observation that holds a general truth | 6 | |
| 2917185999 | Apostrophe | when the author addresses a missing person within the piece of literature | 7 | |
| 2917191488 | Ethos | an appeal to ethics within a piece of literature | 8 | |
| 2917191489 | Pathos | an appeal to emotions | 9 | |
| 2917191490 | Logos | an appeal to logic | 10 | |
| 2917192986 | Asyndeton | the absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 11 | |
| 2917192987 | Complex Sentence | a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses | 12 | |
| 2917194633 | Compound Sentence | a sentence with more than one subject | 13 | |
| 2917194634 | Cumulative Sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea is elaborated by the successive addition of phrases | 14 | |
| 2917196249 | Declarative Sentence | a sentence in a form of a statement | 15 | |
| 2917196250 | Diction | word choice | 16 | |
| 2917196251 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 17 | |
| 2917197941 | Imperative Sentence | a form of a sentence that is expressing a command | 18 | |
| 2917197942 | Interrogative Sentence | one that asks questions | 19 | |
| 2917199018 | Inversion | the act of inverting something | 20 | |
| 2917199019 | Irony | an event that seems contrary to what you would expect | 21 | |
| 2917200092 | Juxtapostition | the fact of two things being placed side by side with contrary effect | 22 | |
| 2917200093 | Metaphor | comparison without using "like" or "as" | 23 | |
| 2917201426 | Metonymy | the substitution of a name of an attribute for that of the thing meant | 24 | |
| 2917203276 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 25 | |
| 2917203277 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory | 26 | |
| 2917204462 | Parallelism | the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way | 27 | |
| 2917205473 | Rhetorical Question | open ended question | 28 | |
| 2917205474 | Simile | using "like" or "as" to compare two different things | 29 | |
| 2917205492 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 30 | |
| 2917207312 | Tone | the authors attitude towards the subject | 31 | |
| 2917207313 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 32 | |
| 2917211942 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 33 |
