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| 4382120555 | Polysyndeton: repeating conjunctions in close succession. | "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" | 0 | |
| 4382120556 | Epistrophe: the repetition of a word or group of words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences. | "Of the people, by the people, for the people" | 1 | |
| 4382120557 | Euphony | A pleasing arrangement of sounds | 2 | |
| 4382120558 | Synaesthesia: the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another. | "Heard melodies are sweet." | 3 | |
| 4382120559 | Colloquialism: an informal or slang expression, especially in the context of formal writing. | "All the other lads there were / Itching to have a bash." | 4 | |
| 4382120560 | Mood | The atmosphere of a work of literature; the emotion created by the work. | 5 | |
| 4382120561 | Euphemism | Saying "ethnic cleansing" instead of "genocide." | 6 | |
| 4382120562 | Narrator | The person (sometimes a character) who tells a story; the voice assumed by the writer. Not necessarily the author (but it can be). | 7 | |
| 4382120563 | Personification: the use of human characteristics to describe animals, objects, or ideas. | "The moon smiled down at us as we sat by the river." | 8 | |
| 4382120564 | Persona | The character an author assumes in a written work. | 9 | |
| 4382120565 | Voice | An author's individual way of using language to reflect his or her own personality and attitudes. An author communicates this through tone, diction, and sentence structure. | 10 | |
| 4382120566 | Epithet | An adjective or phrase that describes a prominent or distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | 11 | |
| 4382120567 | Foreshadowing | In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, the nightmares Lockwood has the night he sleeps in Catherine's bed prefigure later events in the novel. | 12 | |
| 4382120568 | Synechdoche: a figure of speech in which a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole. | "The ship was crewed by fifty hands." | 13 | |
| 4382120569 | Irony | A technique of detachment that draws awareness to the discrepancy between words and their meanings, between expectation and fulfillment, or, most commonly, between what is and what seems to be. | 14 | |
| 4382120570 | Parallelism: the use of similar grammatical structures or word order in two or more sentences, clauses, to suggest a comparison or contrast between them. | "Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream." | 15 | |
| 4382120571 | Rhetoric | The art of persuasion, or the art of speaking or writing well. This involves the study of how words influence audiences. | 16 | |
| 4382120572 | Tone | The author's attitude toward the subject or characters of a story or poem, or toward the reader. | 17 | |
| 4382120573 | Analogy: a comparison based on a specific similarity between things that are otherwise unlike, or the inference that if two things are alike in some ways,they will be alike in others. | "Asking the wealthy nations of the world to feed the impoverished nations is like asking people on a full lifeboat to take on more passengers." | 18 | |
| 4382120574 | Paradox: a statement that seems absurd or even contradictory but that often expresses a deeper truth. | "And all men kill the thing they love." | 19 | |
| 4382120575 | Hyperbole: excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact. | "My teacher is a total psychopath." | 20 | |
| 4382120576 | Asyndeton | "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 21 | |
| 4382120577 | Foil | A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast. | 22 | |
| 4382120578 | Simile: a comparison of two unlike things through the use of like or as. | "My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose." | 23 | |
| 4382120579 | Allegory: a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning and there is usually a "message." | In the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, characters, objects, and events often symbolize moral qualities. | 24 | |
| 4382120580 | Syntax | The way the words in a piece of writing are put together to form lines, phrases, or clauses; the basic structure of a piece of writing. | 25 | |
| 4382120581 | Aphorism: a concise expression of insight or wisdom. | "[F]or there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." | 26 | |
| 4382120582 | Litotes: deliberate understatement, in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite. | "He is not unfriendly." | 27 | |
| 4382120583 | Antithesis: the contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel structure in phrases and clauses. | "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." | 28 | |
| 4382120584 | Metonymy: a figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes. | Referring to business people as "suits." | 29 | |
| 4382120585 | Ellipsis: a figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is omitted but easily understood from the context. | Romeo loves Juliet and Juliet, Romeo. | 30 | |
| 4382120586 | Deductive reasoning: reasoning in which one derives a specific conclusion from something generally or universally understood to be true. | "Firefighters are usually brave and friendly. Jim Potter is a firefighter. So, he is probably brave and friendly." | 31 | |
| 4382120587 | Refutation | The process of proving something wrong by argument or evidence. | 32 | |
| 4382120588 | Cliche: an expression that has been used so frequently, it has lost its expressive power. | "Turn over a new leaf." | 33 |
