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| 4698463431 | Ad Hominem | An argument directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining. | 0 | |
| 4698465002 | Adage, Aphorism, Maxim | Proverb/short statement | 1 | |
| 4698465429 | Allegory | Representation of an abstract meaning through concrete forms. | 2 | |
| 4698469360 | Anachronism | Something out of place in time. | 3 | |
| 4698469709 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 4 | |
| 4698478524 | Antecedent | Something that came before something else that may have influenced it. | 5 | |
| 4698481137 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects. | 6 | |
| 4698481755 | Antithesis | Opposite | 7 | |
| 4698482396 | Apostrophe | A passage in a speech addressed to a person who is absent/dead. | 8 | |
| 4698483488 | Appeal to Ignorance | The assumption that a statement must be true if it can't be proven false. | 9 | |
| 4698484827 | Archetype | A very typical example of a certain person or thing that seems to represent universal patterns such as human nature. | 10 | |
| 4698485903 | Argument from Authority | Believing that something is true because it was stated by someone of a higher status. | 11 | |
| 4698487740 | Assonance | The repetition of a sound/vowel. | 12 | |
| 4698488189 | Asyndeton | The absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 13 | |
| 4698489413 | Bandwagon | Propaganda technique encouraging the viewer to like something or someone because everyone else does. | 14 | |
| 4698493357 | Begging the Question | A claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the claim itself. | 15 | |
| 4698495759 | Bombast | High-flown language. | 16 | |
| 4698497205 | Chiasmus | A literary figure where words are repeated in reverse order. | 17 | |
| 4698498443 | Consonance | Agreement between opinions or actions. | 18 | |
| 4698500157 | Cosmic Irony | The idea that fate toys with human hopes. | 19 | |
| 4698502967 | Denotation | Literal meaning of a word. | 20 | |
| 4698505584 | Didactic | Containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are depended. | 21 | |
| 4698512305 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 22 | |
| 4698513388 | Elegy | A sad poem to express sorrow for someone who has died. | 23 | |
| 4698514721 | Epigram | A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement. | 24 | |
| 4698515808 | Epistrophe | The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 25 | |
| 4698516386 | Epithet | A nickname or label. | 26 | |
| 4698520375 | Ethos | The spirit/character of a community, culture, or era. | 27 | |
| 4698521736 | Euphemism | The use of a nice word instead of an offensive one. | 28 | |
| 4698522705 | Hamartia | A fatal flaw that leads to the downfall of a hero. | 29 | |
| 4698524915 | Hasty Generalization | Reaching a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. | 30 | |
| 4698525605 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence. | 31 | |
| 4698528003 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements | 32 | |
| 4698529889 | Litotes | A figure of speech that is used as an understatement with double negatives; positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 33 | |
| 4698530246 | Logos | An appeal to logic. | 34 | |
| 4698531295 | Malaprop | The mistaken use of word in place of a similar sounding one. | 35 | |
| 4698532771 | Metonymy | Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it. | 36 | |
| 4698533831 | Motif | A recurring element throughout the narrative and serves as a symbolic significance in the story. | 37 | |
| 4698535409 | Non Sequitur | A statement that is not connected in a logical way to anything said before it. | 38 | |
| 4698536549 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 39 | |
| 4698537090 | Paradox | A statement that is self-contradictory. | 40 | |
| 4698537588 | Parallelism | The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in the construction, sound, meaning or meter. | 41 | |
| 4698538380 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion. | 42 | |
| 4698539092 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that has the main clause or predicate at the end. | 43 | |
| 4698546425 | Red Herring | A clue that is meant to be misleading. | 44 | |
| 4698546783 | Rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively. | 45 | |
| 4698547516 | Rhetorical Question | A question that is not meant to be answered. | 46 | |
| 4698547988 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 47 | |
| 4698549943 | Situational Irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected. | 48 | |
| 4698550531 | Slippery Slope | An idea or action which leads to something undesirable | 49 | |
| 4698551502 | Straw Man | A sham argument set up to attack an opponent. | 50 | |
| 4698553794 | Stream of Consciousness | A person's reaction to events. | 51 | |
| 4698554343 | Syllogism | Deductive reasoning | 52 | |
| 4698555324 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. | 53 | |
| 4698555903 | Syntax | The arrangement of words/phrases to create well formed sentences. | 54 | |
| 4698556697 | Understatement | Minimization of something. | 55 | |
| 4698557214 | Verbal Irony | Saying something that contrasts with what you mean. | 56 | |
| 4698558428 | Zeugma | Figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses. | 57 |
