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| 6813073168 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase | 0 | |
| 6813077898 | ad misericordiam | an attempt to persuade another using a hard luck story rather than logic or reason. | 1 | |
| 6813086806 | alliteration | the repetition of accented consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to each other. | 2 | |
| 6813101399 | allusion | a reference in literature or in art to previous literature, history, myth, etc/ | 3 | |
| 6813112764 | anachronism | an element in a story that is out of its time frame. | 4 | |
| 6813123118 | analogy | clarifies/explains an unfamiliar concept or object by comparing it with one which is familiar. | 5 | |
| 6813137442 | anecdote | a short and often personal story used to emphasize a point, to develop a character or a theme, or to inject humor. | 6 | |
| 6813154074 | aphorism | a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle. | 7 | |
| 6813166363 | apostrophe | a rhetorical figure of direct address to a person, object, or abstract entity. | 8 | |
| 6813173491 | apotheosis | elevating someone to the level of a god. | 9 | |
| 6813181325 | aubade | a poem or song about lovers who must leave one another in the early hours of the morning | 10 | |
| 6813190563 | cacophony | harsh, discordant sounds, unpleasant to the ear | 11 | |
| 6813201612 | catharsis | emotional cleansing or feeling of relief | 12 | |
| 6813212164 | conceit | a far fetched comparison between two seemingly unlike things. | 13 | |
| 6813229693 | denouement | the outcome or clarification at the end of a story or play | 14 | |
| 6813245067 | deus ex machina | literally, when the gods intervene at a story's end to resolve a seemingly impossible conflict. | 15 | |
| 6813250985 | diction | the deliberate choice of a style of language for a desired effect or tone. | 16 | |
| 6813263099 | distortion | an exaggeration or stretching of the truth to achieve a desired effect. | 17 | |
| 6813268117 | epigraph | a short, clever poem with a witty turn of thought. | 18 | |
| 6813272469 | epigraph | a brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme. | 19 | |
| 6813279409 | euphony | the quality of a pleasant or harmonious sound of a word or group of words as an intended effect. | 20 | |
| 6813305738 | farce | a kind of comedy that depends on exaggerated or improbable situations, physical disasters, and sexual innuendos. | 21 | |
| 6813318516 | hubris | insolence, arrogance, or pride. | 22 | |
| 6813323458 | litotes | affirmation of an idea by using a negative understatement | 23 | |
| 6813329348 | metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a word or phrase closely associated with it. | 24 | |
| 6813339804 | onomatopoeia | words that imitate sound | 25 | |
| 6813343531 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory words, placed side by side. | 26 | |
| 6813349509 | paradox | a statement or situation that at first seems impossible or oxymoronic but which solves itself and reveals meaning | 27 | |
| 6813365829 | pathos | the quality of a literary work or passage which appeals to the readers or viewers emotions. | 28 | |
| 6813377346 | logos | appeal to logic | 29 | |
| 6813379588 | ethos | an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader | 30 | |
| 6813396609 | stock character | a stereotypical character | 31 | |
| 6813401461 | syntax | the way in which words phrases and sentences are ordered and connected | 32 | |
| 6813409354 | tone | the authors attitude towards the subject | 33 | |
| 6813416180 | invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong abusive language | 34 |
