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| 7460383109 | Aporia | Expressing doubt about an idea. | 0 | |
| 7460391921 | Anaphora | repetition of the same words at the beginning of a series of clauses. | 1 | |
| 7460400370 | Epistrophe | repetition of the same words at the end of a series of clauses. | 2 | |
| 7460406532 | Symploce | Anaphora and Epistrophe | 3 | |
| 7460412716 | Verisimilitude | similar to the truth; the quality of realism in a work that persuades readers they are getting a vision of life as it is. | 4 | |
| 7460420580 | Persona | The role that a character or speaker assumes or depicts to the reader. | 5 | |
| 7460426519 | Asyndeton | a list with no conjunctions (and, or) | 6 | |
| 7460431572 | Polysyndeton | a list with conjunctions between each item | 7 | |
| 7460437726 | Denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 8 | |
| 7460440727 | Connotation | implied meaning(s) of the word | 9 | |
| 7494272036 | Zeugma | when unexpected items in a sentence are linked together by a shared word. (deletes a verb) | 10 | |
| 7861646219 | Verbal irony | when a speaker's intention is the opposite of what he/she is saying (sarcasm) | 11 | |
| 7861647774 | situational irony | when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you'd expect the result to be. | 12 | |
| 7861649561 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in a play, movie, or novel doesn't know | 13 | |
| 7861652930 | enumeration | when you list a bunch of qualities or roles of something right after stating that "something" | 14 | |
| 7861655618 | hyperbole | exaggerating your point | 15 | |
| 7861656643 | understatement | less than you would normally expect | 16 | |
| 7861658766 | litotes | understatement that emphasizes its point by using a word opposite to the conditions. | 17 | |
| 7861661456 | paralipsis | emphasizing a point by seeming to pass it over | 18 | |
| 7861663140 | euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 19 | |
| 7861669798 | style | diction, sentence structure, syntax, figurative language, sentence arrangement, mode | 20 | |
| 7861670807 | mood | the emotion the author wants the audience to feel towards his or her subject. | 21 | |
| 7861671795 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject; created through diction, selection of detail, imagery | 22 | |
| 7861674163 | parody | something that mocks something else that already exists but has no political/social point. | 23 | |
| 7861675645 | satire | something mocking something else with a political point | 24 | |
| 7861679399 | chiasmus | a literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order | 25 | |
| 7861680794 | epigraph | a short phrase or quotation proceeds a literary work | 26 | |
| 7861682421 | metonymy | a substitution of the name of an attribute or an adjunct for that of the thing meant | 27 | |
| 7861684481 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole | 28 | |
| 8516392298 | parallelism | article, adj., noun followed by article, adj., noun. To use components in a sentence that are grammatically the same. | 29 | |
| 8516394374 | descriptions | ususally focuses on one thing, and the speaker usual isn't a character. | 30 | |
| 8516395651 | narration | a story | 31 | |
| 8516396055 | antecedent | the noun that the pronoun is referring to. | 32 | |
| 8516398193 | antithesis | opposite ideals in parallel structure. | 33 | |
| 8516398719 | inductive reasoning | uses patterns to arrive at a conclusion. Generalization or rule leads to specific examples or activities. | 34 | |
| 8516399037 | deductive reasoning | begins with a premise, starts with things you assume to be true and draw conclusions that must be true if your assumptions are true. Uses facts, rules, and definitions to arrive at a conclusion specific examples or activities leads to generalization or rule. | 35 |
