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| 7901431668 | Juxtaposition | The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose. | 0 | |
| 7901431669 | Litote | A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement. | 1 | |
| 7901431670 | Loose Sentence | A long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases. | 2 | |
| 7901431671 | Metaphor | One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy. An implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of like or as. | 3 | |
| 7901431672 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something. | 4 | |
| 7901431673 | Mode of Discourse | The way in which information is presented in written or spoken form. Narration, description, process analysis , and cause and effect are all types of this. | 5 | |
| 7901431674 | Mood | A feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view. It is a "feeling" that establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse. | 6 | |
| 7901431675 | Narrative | A mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework | 7 | |
| 7901431676 | Onomatopoeia | A word capturing or approximating the sound of what is described. The purpose of these words is to make a passage more effective for the reader or listener. | 8 | |
| 7901431677 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements | 9 | |
| 7901431678 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true | 10 | |
| 7901431679 | Parallel Structure | The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. In prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance. | 11 | |
| 7901431680 | Pathos | That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. In argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity. | 12 | |
| 7901431681 | Periodic Sentence | A long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end | 13 | |
| 7901431682 | Personification | Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities | 14 |
