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| 7322720716 | Alliteration | A literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning sounds. | 0 | |
| 7322720717 | Allusion | Is a figure or speech that refers to a well known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds. Often to make a difficult idea more simply. | 1 | |
| 7322722028 | Ambiguity | Is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more that one meaning. | 2 | |
| 7322722029 | Analogy | Is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. Blank is to blank as blank is to blank. | 3 | |
| 7322722992 | Anecdote | Is defined as a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh. | 4 | |
| 7322722993 | Extended Metaphor | Refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. | 5 | |
| 7322724015 | Figurative Language | Is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. | 6 | |
| 7322724016 | Imagery | Is the literary term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses. | 7 | |
| 7322724729 | Inference | A literary device used commonly in literature and in daily life where logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true. | 8 | |
| 7322724730 | Persuasion | A literary technique that writers use to present their ideas through reasons and logic to influence the audience. | 9 | |
| 7322724731 | Point of View | Is the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation. | 10 | |
| 7322726593 | Rhetoric | Is a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. | 11 | |
| 7322726594 | Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. Like or As | 12 | |
| 7322726595 | Connotation | A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly | 13 | |
| 7322727369 | Denotation | Is generally defined as literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings. DD | 14 | |
| 7322727370 | Diction | As style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer. | 15 | |
| 7322727371 | Juxtaposition | A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 16 | |
| 7322728785 | Metaphor | A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. | 17 | |
| 7322728786 | Style | an be defined as the way a writer writes and it is the technique which an individual author uses in his writing. It varies from author to author and depends upon one's syntax, word choice, and tone. It can also be described as a voice that readers listen to when they read the work of a writer. | 18 | |
| 7322730103 | Syntax | Determines how the chosen words are used to form a sentence. | 19 | |
| 7322730104 | Theme | Is the central topic a text treats. | 20 | |
| 7322730105 | Tone | is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. | 21 | |
| 7322730106 | Grit | to show tenseness, anger, or determination by or as if by clamping or grinding the teeth together. | 22 | |
| 7322732563 | Biophilia | "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life". | 23 |
