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| 6470183344 | Anachronism | The misplacement of a person, occurrence, custom, or idea in time; also sometimes refers to an individual or thing that is incorrectly placed in time. | 0 | |
| 6470183345 | Catharsis | A cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art. | 1 | |
| 6470183346 | Propaganda | Ideas, facts, or allegations spread to persuade others to support one's cause or to go against the opposing cause. | 2 | |
| 6470183348 | Parody | A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author. | 3 | |
| 6470183351 | Ambiguity | A word or idea that can be understood in multiple ways; frequently refers to the condition of being obscure or difficult to understand. | 4 | |
| 6470183352 | Alliteration: the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words. | "Barber, baby, bubbles, and a bumblebee" | 5 | |
| 6470183353 | Prose | Any composition not written in verse. | 6 | |
| 6470183354 | Nostalgia | A yearning for the past or for some condition or state of existence that cannot be recovered. | 7 | |
| 6470183357 | Satire | A work that ridicules the shortcomings of individuals, institutions, or society, often to make a political point. | 8 | |
| 6470183358 | Diction | Specific word choice used in a piece of writing, often chosen for effect but also for correctness and clarity. | 9 | |
| 6470183359 | Oxymoron: the association of two contradictory terms. | "Same difference;" "Jumbo shrimp;" "Soft rock." | 10 | |
| 6470183360 | Metaphor: the comparison of unlike things without the use of like or as. | "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage." | 11 | |
| 6470183361 | Logos | Greek for "wisdom" or "reason"; in the context of rhetoric, refers to the process of persuading by means of logic and reason, as opposed to style, authority, or emotion. | 12 | |
| 6470183362 | Parable | A short narrative that illustrates a moral by means of allegory (in which literal meaning and symbolic meaning correspond clearly and directly). | 13 | |
| 6470183363 | Sarcasm: a simple form of verbal irony, in which it is obvious from context and tone that the speaker means the opposite of what he or she says. | Saying "that was graceful" when someone trips and falls. | 14 | |
| 6470183364 | Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sound like the thing or action to which they refer. | "Bow-wow. Crackle. Buzz. Zoom." | 15 | |
| 6470183365 | Denotation | The explicit, literal meaning of a word. | 16 | |
| 6470183366 | Imagery | Language that brings to mind sense-impressions, especially via figures of speech | 17 | |
| 6470183369 | Pathos | From the Greek word for "feeling"; the quality in a work of literature that evokes high emotion, most commonly sorrow, pity, or compassion. | 18 | |
| 6470183371 | Expository | An explanation of the meaning or purpose of a piece of writing, especially one that is difficult to understand. | 19 | |
| 6470183373 | Anaphora: repeated use of a word or phrase at the start of successive phrases or sentences for effect. | "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." | 20 | |
| 6470183376 | Digression | To turn or move away from the main subject of discussion or the main argument in a piece of writing. | 21 | |
| 6470183377 | Apostrophe: a direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea. | Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain, My Captain" was written upon the death of Abraham Lincoln | 22 | |
| 6470183378 | Chiasmus: two phrases in which the syntax is the same but placement of words is reversed. | "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." | 23 | |
| 6470183379 | Stream-of-consciousness | Form of narration in which the narrator conveys a subject's thoughts, impressions, and perceptions exactly as they occur, often in disjointed fashion and without the logic and grammar of typical speech and writing. | 24 | |
| 6470183381 | Caricature | In writing and literature, an author's exaggeration or distortion of certain traits or characteristics of an individual. | 25 | |
| 6596343243 | Ethos | A means of convincing others of the character or credibility of the persuader. An appeal to one's sense of character or duty. | 26 | |
| 6596353059 | Jargon | Language that comes from a specialized field that people within that field are familiar with (computers, sports, business). | 27 | |
| 6596355507 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. These can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. | 28 | |
| 6596355854 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 29 | |
| 6596356478 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 30 | |
| 6596358230 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. | 31 | |
| 6596360655 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. | 32 |
