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| 7622633178 | Allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known | 0 | |
| 8063127615 | Allegory | Device using character and/ or story elements symbolically to represent an abstract and literal meaning | 1 | |
| 8063137324 | Ambiguity | multiple meaning, intentional/ unintentional, word phrase sentence or passage | 2 | |
| 8063170494 | analogy | A similarity or comparison between 2 things | 3 | |
| 8063174275 | Anecdote | brief story used to illustrate an idea or make a point | 4 | |
| 8063183834 | antecedent | word phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun (it) | 5 | |
| 8063193495 | antithesis | opposite or contrast of ideas-direct opposite | 6 | |
| 8063197396 | aphorism | a tense statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 7 | |
| 8063219638 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person of personified principle | 8 | |
| 8063242918 | atmosphere | emotional background created by the entirety of a literary work, established by setting, choice of objects described | 9 | |
| 8063251012 | Bathos | insincere/ overdone sentimentality | 10 | |
| 8063256915 | Bombast | Inflated, pretentious language | 11 | |
| 8063267280 | caricature | verbal description, exaggerate or distort for comic effect | 12 | |
| 8063272071 | circumlocution | speech that avoids direct reflection to the subject | 13 | |
| 8063276144 | clause | the grammatical unit contains subject and verb- independent, main expresses complete thought, can stand alone | 14 | |
| 8063306117 | climax | high point, turning point | 15 | |
| 8063311615 | colloquial/ colloquialism | use of slang or informalities | 16 | |
| 8063314793 | conceit | fanciful expression- extended metaphor | 17 | |
| 8063322665 | concrete detail | highly specific detail, tangible detail | 18 | |
| 8063329160 | connotation | non-literal meaning, associative meaning | 19 | |
| 8063333521 | deductive reasoning | method of reasoning by which conclusions are drawn from general principals | 20 | |
| 8063341291 | denotation | strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of emotion or color | 21 | |
| 8063348347 | diction | writers word choice | 22 | |
| 8063351279 | didactic | using words that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing | 23 | |
| 8063356694 | digression | a portion of discourse or narrative that departs from main subject | 24 | |
| 8063363293 | elliptical construction | omitting a word or phrase used to describe a person | 25 | |
| 8063371427 | euphemism | more agreeable or less offensive substitute for unpleasant word | 26 | |
| 8063401216 | extended metaphor | developed at great length, occuring frequently | 27 | |
| 8063410895 | figurative language | writing or speech not to carry literal meaning | 28 | |
| 8063416403 | genre | major category which a literary work fits best-prose (fiction/ non-fiction), poetry, drama | 29 | |
| 8063425354 | harangue | forceful sermon or lecture | 30 | |
| 8063428719 | homily | sermon on moral theme | 31 | |
| 8063431851 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 32 | |
| 8063436233 | imagery | sensory details- arouse emotion or represent abstractions- visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, olfactory | 33 | |
| 8063446733 | inductive reasoning | specific facts used to make generalization | 34 | |
| 8063456469 | infrence/ infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion based on the info presented | 35 | |
| 8063471527 | invective | emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack with strong, abusive language. | 36 | |
| 8063480873 | Irony/ ironic | the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant | 37 | |
| 8063487392 | verbal irony | when the words literally state the opposite of writers meaning | 38 | |
| 8063491066 | situational irony | events turn out opposite of what was expected | 39 | |
| 8063495239 | dramatic irony | facts or events are unknown to the character but known to the reader or other characters | 40 | |
| 8063501697 | litotes | understatement which uses negative to affirm positive | 41 | |
| 8063519213 | loose sentence | where main idea is presented first and other follow | 42 | |
| 8063526077 | malapropism | confused use of words, appropriate word replaced by one that sounds the same | 43 | |
| 8063536398 | metaphor | a figure of speech used to imply comparison of unlike things | 44 | |
| 8063541299 | mood | emotional amtompshere in a work | 45 | |
| 8063544507 | motif | unifying phrase presented throughout an entire work | 46 | |
| 8063547781 | myth | a story that has become an accepted part of the culture often an allusion | 47 | |
| 8063555967 | onomatopoeia | figure of speech in which natural sounds are limited in the sounds of words | 48 | |
| 8063559866 | oxymoron | figure of speech wherein the author groups- contradictory terms | 49 | |
| 8063565920 | paradox | a self-contradictory statement or opposed to common sense | 50 | |
| 8063572220 | parallelism | structural similarity in writing | 51 | |
| 8063587716 | anaphora parallelism | exact repetition of words or phrases beginning | 52 | |
| 8063599338 | isocolon parallelism | series of clauses of same length | 53 | |
| 8063601972 | chiasmos parallelism | two clauses related by reversal of structure | 54 | |
| 8063606519 | parody | work closely imitates style or content of another ex: SNL | 55 | |
| 8063612247 | pastoral | a work or literature dealing with rural life | 56 | |
| 8063617329 | pedantic | an adjective describes words, phrases or general tone- overly scholarly | 57 | |
| 8063622302 | periodic sentence | the sentence that presents its central meaning in the main clause | 58 | |
| 8063629654 | personification | giving objects human- like attributes | 59 | |
| 8063632883 | point of view | perspective in which story is told | 60 | |
| 8063636935 | first person point of view | I, character in the story | 61 | |
| 8063639934 | omniscient third person point of view | he, she, it, narrator in the story- inside heads | 62 | |
| 8063655716 | limited third person point of view | presented thoughts by narrator- actions | 63 | |
| 8063658953 | objective third person point of view | present thoughts and feeling- no character, narrator not in the head | 64 | |
| 8063664604 | second person point of view | you | 65 | |
| 8063667396 | polysydeton | using many coordinating conjunctions in a sentence- and | 66 | |
| 8063681087 | pun | humorous play on words using similar sounds words to suggest different meanings | 67 |
