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| 7402861852 | Ad Hominem | Attacking the person instead of their argument itself | 0 | |
| 7402861853 | Adage, Aphorism, Maxim | A phrase that expresses a general truth | 1 | |
| 7402861854 | Allegory | A story whose components are a metaphor to real life | 2 | |
| 7402861855 | Anachronism | Something that appears in the wrong time period | 3 | |
| 7402861856 | Anaphora | Repeating a word or phrase in the beginning of multiple clauses | 4 | |
| 7402861857 | Antecedent | A word or phrase that another word refers to, generally a pronoun | 5 | |
| 7402861858 | Anthropomorphism | Giving human attributes to something not human, generally a deity | 6 | |
| 7402861859 | Antithesis | Placing a sentence against the opposite sentence for contrast | 7 | |
| 7402861860 | Apostrophe | A literary device where a character addresses an imaginary character | 8 | |
| 7402861861 | Appeal to Ignorance | A fallacy that states an argument is true because it has not been proven false | 9 | |
| 7402861862 | Archetype | A symbol or character repeatedly used or imitated; cliché | 10 | |
| 7402861863 | Verbal Irony | Using words contrary to their definitions or the speaker's real feeling; sarcasm | 11 | |
| 7402861864 | Argument from Authority | A fallacy that states an argument must be true because a body in power said so | 12 | |
| 7402861865 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in the beginning of a line | 13 | |
| 7402861866 | Asyndeton | Deliberately removing conjunctions from a series of phrases | 14 | |
| 7402861867 | Zeugma | Use of a single word in which a word applies to two others in different senses or it semantically suits only one | 15 | |
| 7402861868 | Synecdoche | Using the whole for a part or vice-versa when referring to something | 16 | |
| 7402861869 | Syntax | The way words in a sentence are ordered | 17 | |
| 7402861870 | Bandwagon | A persuasive technique that states something is worth using or doing because the majority does so | 18 | |
| 7402861871 | Begging the Question | A fallacy where the conclusion of a question is accepted as true in the question; circular argument | 19 | |
| 7402861872 | Bombast | Pretentious writing or speech | 20 | |
| 7402861873 | Understatement | Suggesting something is less than it actually is; opposite of hyperbole | 21 | |
| 7402861874 | Stream of Consciousness | A form of narrative where a character's unspoken and subconscious thoughts are shown in a string, generally without proper grammar | 22 | |
| 7402861875 | Syllogism | An argument where a conclusion is arrived at using two other true conclusions; deductive reasoning | 23 | |
| 7402861876 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech that presents two things in an order then presents them again but reversed | 24 | |
| 7402861877 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds | 25 | |
| 7402861878 | Cosmic Irony | The idea that a higher-than-human force toys with human hopes or is indifferent to them | 26 | |
| 7402861879 | Slippery Slope | A fallacy that states that something should not be done because doing so will lead to something bad happening as a result | 27 | |
| 7402861880 | Straw Man | A fallacy that misrepresents or changes an argument to make it easier to attack | 28 | |
| 7402861881 | Rhetorical question | A question asked to make a point instead of getting an answer | 29 | |
| 7402861882 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word; opposite of connotation | 30 | |
| 7402861883 | Didactic | Intended or used for teaching | 31 | |
| 7402861884 | Dramatic Irony | A situation where the audience knows something that a character doesn't | 32 | |
| 7402861885 | Satire | Using humor or irony to criticize something | 33 | |
| 7402861886 | Situational Irony | When the expected outcome is different from or opposite of the actual outcome | 34 | |
| 7402861887 | Periodic sentence | A sentence whose main clause is held until the end | 35 | |
| 7402861888 | Elegy | A written work that is negative or lamenting | 36 | |
| 7402861889 | Epigram | A statement that is short, clever, and memorable; a witticism | 37 | |
| 7402861890 | Epistrophe | Repeating a word or phrase at the end of multiple clauses; opposite of anaphora | 38 | |
| 7402861891 | Red Herring | Something that abandons or misleads something else, also a fallacy | 39 | |
| 7402861892 | Rhetoric | The art of effective and persuasive writing | 40 | |
| 7402861893 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that intentionally contradicts itself | 41 | |
| 7402861894 | Epithet | An adjective following a nickname | 42 | |
| 7402861895 | Ethos | A persuasive appeal to ethics; similar to an appeal to authority | 43 | |
| 7402861896 | Euphemism | Substituting a term for another that is more offensive | 44 | |
| 7402861897 | Hamartia | The fatal flaw or shortcoming of a protagonist that leads to their failure in tragedy | 45 | |
| 7402861898 | Paradox | A self-contradictory phrase that is true on further inspection | 46 | |
| 7402861899 | Parallelism | Repeated use of literary elements that are similar or exactly the same | 47 | |
| 7402861900 | Pathos | An appeal to emotion | 48 | |
| 7402861901 | Metonymy | A figure of speech where something is referred to by another thing that is very similar | 49 | |
| 7402861902 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a conclusion about an entire population is drawn from an insufficient sample size | 50 | |
| 7402861903 | Hubris | Excessive pride | 51 | |
| 7402861904 | Motif | A central or recurrent pattern in and between work | 52 | |
| 7402861905 | Non-sequitur | A conclusion that does not follow from the given facts | 53 | |
| 7402861906 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration; opposite of understatement | 54 | |
| 7402861907 | Litotes | A figure of speech in which something is seen as positive by negating its negative qualities; often uses double negatives | 55 | |
| 7402861908 | Logos | An appeal to logic | 56 | |
| 7402861909 | Malapropism | Use of an incorrect word in the place of a word that sounds similar | 57 |
