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| 14750971655 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 0 | |
| 14750971656 | Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 1 | |
| 14750973718 | Situational Irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 2 | |
| 14750975119 | Metaphor | a direct comparison of two different things | 3 | |
| 14750977090 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 4 | |
| 14750979371 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 5 | |
| 14750980858 | Diction | word choice | 6 | |
| 14750982664 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 7 | |
| 14750989960 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 8 | |
| 14750989961 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 9 | |
| 14750993174 | Archetype | an original model on which something was patterned or replicated; the ideal example of a particular type of person or thing | 10 | |
| 14750995294 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 11 | |
| 14750996569 | Detail/Support | evidence used to support an opinion | 12 | |
| 14750999441 | Point of View | method of narration that we see the story through | 13 | |
| 14751006197 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 14 | |
| 14751008228 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 15 | |
| 14751008229 | Rhetorical Question | question asked to make dramatic effect | 16 | |
| 14751011683 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 17 | |
| 14751027796 | Style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 18 | |
| 14751027797 | Timeshift | movement away from normal chronology | 19 | |
| 14751035983 | Interior Monologue | a technique that reproduces the rhythm of consciousness in writing | 20 | |
| 14751038140 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 21 | |
| 14751040216 | Meiosis | understatement | 22 | |
| 14751042237 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 23 | |
| 14751046484 | Metontymy | when one phrase is substituted for another closely related to | 24 | |
| 14751051050 | Synechdoche | Uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear. | 25 | |
| 14751051051 | Euphimism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 26 | |
| 14751054346 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 27 | |
| 14751054347 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 28 | |
| 14751056117 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 29 | |
| 14751057922 | Antithesis | using opposite phrases in close conjunction | 30 | |
| 14751061279 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 31 | |
| 14751064044 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 32 | |
| 14751064045 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 33 | |
| 14751065511 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 34 | |
| 14751067064 | Aphroism | a brief statement such as a moral or quote, expression | 35 | |
| 14751068711 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 36 | |
| 14751070187 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 37 | |
| 14751070188 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 38 | |
| 14751071433 | Dialogue | Conversation between characters | 39 | |
| 14751072837 | Ethical appeal | reputation, credibility, experience (persona); how trustworthy and credible is this person; shared values | 40 | |
| 14751076317 | Logical appeal | claims, evidence, logical reasoning; appeals to someone's reason; facts | 41 | |
| 14751081666 | Emotional appeal | appealing to someone's emotion | 42 | |
| 14751083834 | loose sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 43 | |
| 14751085478 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 44 | |
| 14751087727 | simple sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 45 | |
| 14751089407 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions | 46 | |
| 14751089408 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 47 | |
| 14751091231 | paradox | a seemingly contradictory idea that has truth to it; although x doesn't make sense, in this way it might make sense | 48 | |
| 14751097994 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 49 | |
| 14751097995 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 50 |
