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| 5723600345 | allegory | a story or poem that reveals a hidden meaning, usually moral or political | 0 | |
| 5723600346 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 1 | |
| 5723603376 | allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 2 | |
| 5723606200 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 5723610345 | antecedent | word to which a pronoun refers | 4 | |
| 5723614272 | antithesis | a contrast or opposition between two things | 5 | |
| 5723614273 | aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 6 | |
| 5723614274 | apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified) | 7 | |
| 5723617611 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 8 | |
| 5723625332 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation | 9 | |
| 5723625333 | connotation | socially understood or shared meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 5723628275 | denotation | literal meaning of a word or phrase | 11 | |
| 5723628276 | diction | author's use of specific words | 12 | |
| 5723628277 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 13 | |
| 5723628278 | imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work | 14 | |
| 5723630923 | irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 15 | |
| 5723630924 | litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad). | 16 | |
| 5723630925 | metaphor | comparison without using the words "like" or "as" | 17 | |
| 5723630926 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example "kleenex" for "tissue paper" | 18 | |
| 5723635571 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ) | 19 | |
| 5723635572 | paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true (e.g., more is less) | 20 | |
| 5723638309 | parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 21 | |
| 5723638310 | periodic sentence | main clause or predicate is at the end of sentence; used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made (e.g., In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued.) | 22 | |
| 5723638311 | polysyndeton | literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed | 23 | |
| 5723641046 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 24 | |
| 5723650050 | style | rhetoric used by the author to create the whole | 25 | |
| 5723659704 | dependent clause | clause grammatically unable to stand alone | 26 | |
| 5723662970 | independent clause | clause grammatically able to stand alone | 27 | |
| 5723667485 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa (e.g., the word "boots" usually refers to soldiers.) DO NOT confuse with metonymy; synechdoche uses a component of something to describe the whole things, while metonymy uses a closely related word that may not necessarily be a part of something Synecdoche: "wheels" for a car Metonymy: "crown" for a ruler | 28 | |
| 5723667486 | syntax | rhetorical and grammatical structure of a sentence | 29 | |
| 5723667487 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 30 | |
| 5723670215 | zeugma | the application of a word to two or more separate things, requiring separate meanings of the word (e.g., The farmer plowed the field and his wife.) | 31 | |
| 5723670216 | personification (anthropomorphism) | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 32 |
