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| 9855097152 | Active Voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 9855100295 | Allusion | An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar | 1 | |
| 9855105275 | Anecdote | A brief recounting of a relevant episode | 2 | |
| 9855108045 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 3 | |
| 9855112002 | Classicism | Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world | 4 | |
| 9855117120 | Comic Relief | When a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood | 5 | |
| 9855123080 | Diction | Word choice, particularly as an element of style | 6 | |
| 9855127331 | Colloquial Diction | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation | 7 | |
| 9855131048 | Colloquialism | A common or familiar type of saying | 8 | |
| 9855133120 | Connotation | The associations suggested by a word | 9 | |
| 9855138702 | Denotation | The literal, explicit meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 9855142611 | Jargon | The diction of a group which practices a similar profession or activity | 11 | |
| 9855146047 | Vernacular | Language or dialect of a particular country/ regional group | 12 | |
| 9855151694 | Didactic | A term used to describe fiction, etc. that teaches specific lesson or moral | 13 | |
| 9855155240 | Adage | A folk saying with a lesson | 14 | |
| 9855159896 | Allegory | A story in which characters, etc. represent qualities or concepts that are meant to reveal an abstraction or truth | 15 | |
| 9855169058 | Aphorism | A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 16 | |
| 9855172511 | Ellipsis | The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author | 17 | |
| 9855178501 | Euphemism | A less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 18 | |
| 9855183043 | Figurative Language | Writing that is not meant to be taken literally | 19 | |
| 9855186082 | Analogy | A comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables | 20 | |
| 9855189411 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 21 | |
| 9855191376 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 22 | |
| 9855194966 | Metaphor | Makes an implied comparison | 23 | |
| 9855198413 | Extended Metaphor | When a metaphor is continued later in a written work | 24 | |
| 9855203119 | Conceit | A particularly elaborate extended metaphor | 25 | |
| 9855207644 | Metonymy | Replacing an actual word or idea with a related word or concept | 26 | |
| 9855329609 | Synecdoche | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice versa | 27 | |
| 9855333391 | Simile | Making a direct comparison between two very different things | 28 | |
| 9855339836 | Synesthesia | A description involving a crossing of the senses | 29 | |
| 9855343592 | Personification | Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human | 30 | |
| 9855349006 | Foreshadowing | When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story | 31 | |
| 9855354593 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits | 32 | |
| 9855358267 | Gothic | Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death | 33 | |
| 9855363726 | Imagery | Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind | 34 | |
| 9855371607 | Invective | A long, emotionally violent attack using strong, abusive language | 35 | |
| 9855374460 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 36 | |
| 9855378929 | Verbal Irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/ something different | 37 | |
| 9855382602 | Sarcasm | Verbal irony with a bitter tone | 38 | |
| 9855386747 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience of a work knows something that the character doesn't | 39 | |
| 9855389408 | Situational Irony | Found in the plot of a work, it's funny how things turn out | 40 | |
| 9855397094 | Juxtaposition | Placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison | 41 | |
| 9855400481 | Mood | The atmosphere created by literature and accomplished through diction | 42 | |
| 9855405828 | Motif | A recurring idea in a piece of literature | 43 | |
| 9855412446 | Oxymoron | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox | 44 | |
| 9855415217 | Pacing | The speed or tempo of an author's writing | 45 | |
| 9855420745 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true | 46 | |
| 9855426500 | Parallelism | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other | 47 | |
| 9855438629 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of multiple clauses/ sentences in a row | 48 | |
| 9855443133 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the words are reversed | 49 | |
| 9855447446 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, etc. with parallel structure | 50 | |
| 9855454978 | Zuegma/ Syllepsis | When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies | 51 | |
| 9855462505 | Parenthetical Idea | Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence | 52 | |
| 9855469303 | Parody | An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes | 53 | |
| 9855474922 | Persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story | 54 | |
| 9855479982 | Poetic Device | A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, etc. | 55 | |
| 9855485068 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words | 56 | |
| 9855488441 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 57 | |
| 9855491337 | Consonance | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words | 58 | |
| 9855495608 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes | 59 | |
| 9855499317 | Internal Rhyme | When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line | 60 | |
| 9855515178 | Slant Rhyme | When a poet creates a "rhyme" of similar words | 61 | |
| 9855518547 | End Rhyme | When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme | 62 | |
| 9855521961 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of a poem's end rhymes | 63 | |
| 9855525542 | Polysyndeton | When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions | 64 | |
| 9855538224 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way | 65 | |
| 9855674455 | Rhetorical Question | Question not asked for information but for effect | 66 | |
| 9855679689 | Romanticism | Art or literature characterized by an idealistic view of people and the world | 67 | |
| 9855687678 | Sarcasm | A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded | 68 | |
| 9855690929 | Satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect | 69 | |
| 9855695139 | Appositive | A word or group of words placed beside a noun to supplement its meaning | 70 | |
| 9855703152 | Balanced Sentence | A sentence in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale | 71 | |
| 9855706699 | Compound Sentence | Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses | 72 | |
| 9855711109 | Complex Sentence | Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 73 | |
| 9855717985 | Loose Sentence | When the writer begins with an independent clause, then adds subordinate elements | 74 | |
| 9855725494 | Periodic Sentence | When the main idea isn't completed until the end of the sentence | 75 | |
| 9855729333 | Simple Sentence | Contains only one independent clause | 76 | |
| 9855732654 | Style | The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes | 77 | |
| 9855736671 | Symbol | Anything that represents or stands for something else | 78 | |
| 9855740767 | Syntax | Grammatical arrangement of words | 79 | |
| 9855743769 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work | 80 | |
| 9855749646 | Tone | A writer's attitude towards the subject matter | 81 | |
| 9855753111 | Litotes | A particular form of understatement, generated by denying the opposite of the statement, which would otherwise be used | 82 | |
| 9855768795 | Concession | Accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint | 83 | |
| 9855773963 | Conditional Statement | An if-then statement that consists of two parts | 84 | |
| 9855785058 | Ad Hominem | Fallacy of attacking opponents instead of their arguements | 85 | |
| 9855787570 | Appeal to Authority | The claim that because someone famous supports an idea, this must be right | 86 | |
| 9855794977 | Bandwagon | Urging the audience to accept a position because a majority of people already do | 87 | |
| 9855804827 | Begging the Question | Fallacy that assumes the idea you are trying to prove as being true | 88 | |
| 9855807534 | Cause/ Effect | Fallacy that assumes that the effect is related to a cause because the events occur together | 89 | |
| 9855815287 | Either/ or Thinking | Fallacy that implies that one of two negative outcomes is inevitable | 90 | |
| 9855823837 | Equivocation | Fallacy that allows a key word or term in an argument to have different meanings throughout the argument | 91 | |
| 9855830437 | Generalization | Fallacy that bases an inference on too small a sample as the basis for a broader generalization | 92 | |
| 9855838795 | Non Sequitur | Fallacy in which irrelevant reasons are offered to support a claim | 93 | |
| 9855846909 | Red Herring | Fallacy that introduces a topic unrelated to the claim | 94 | |
| 9855853119 | Slippery Slope | Fallacy that assumes a chain reaction of events which result in a terrible outcome | 95 | |
| 9855858068 | Straw Man | States an opponent's argument in an exaggerated form, or attacking a weaker, irrelevant portion of an opponent's argument | 96 | |
| 9855870587 | Altruism | Appeals to an audience's sense of goodness or morality | 97 | |
| 9855874650 | Patriotism | Appeals to an audience's love of their country | 98 | |
| 9855882264 | Intelligence | Appeals to an audience's reasoning or wisdom | 99 | |
| 9855886004 | Plain Folk | Appeals to the experiences of the common man | 100 | |
| 9855889320 | Snob | Appeals to an audience's taste for the finer things in life | 101 | |
| 9855903017 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses | 102 | |
| 9855910277 | Climax | When a writer arranges ideas in order of importance | 103 | |
| 9855915758 | Inversion | When a verb comes before the subject in a sentence | 104 |
