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| 4986607929 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an obstruction in addition to the literal meaning. In some allegories an author may intend the characters to personify an obstruction like hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. | 0 | |
| 4986607930 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses and absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. | 1 | |
| 4986607931 | Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, colloquialisms give a work a conversational, familiar tone. Colloquial expressions in writing include local or regional dialect. | 2 | |
| 4986607932 | Connotation | The nonliteral associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. Connotations may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes. | 3 | |
| 4986607933 | Denotation | The strict, literal dictionary definition of the word devoid of any emotion attitude or color. | 4 | |
| 4986607934 | Diction | Related to style diction refers to the writers word choices especially with regard to their correctness clearness or effectiveness. Needs to be paired with an adjective. | 5 | |
| 4986607935 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. Maybe use to adhere to standards of social or political correctness or to add humor or ironic understatement. | 6 | |
| 4986607936 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. Litotes is the opposite of hyperbole. | 7 | |
| 4986607937 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 8 | |
| 4986607938 | Parallelisms | Also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure. Referring to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words phrases sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity. Can involve repetition of a grammatical elements such as a preposition or verbal phrase. Used to attract the readers attention add emphasis and organization or simply provide a musical rhythm. | 9 | |
| 4986607939 | Anaphora | Subset of parallel structure. When the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences is used. Examples include Martin Luther King Jr.'s I have a dream speech. | 10 | |
| 4986607940 | Satire | A work that targets human voices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. Regardless of whether or not the work aims to perform human behavior satires best scene of the style of writing rather than a purpose for writing. It can be recognized by many devices used effectively by the satirist: irony wit parody caricature hyperbole understatement and sarcasm. | 11 | |
| 4986607941 | Subordinate Clause | Also referred to as the dependent clause the subordinate clause depends on the main clause to complete its meaning as it does not express a complete thought. Easily recognized by phrases like: although because unless if even though sense as soon as well who when where how and that. | 12 | |
| 4986607942 | Syllogism | Also referred to as syllogistic reasoning or syllogistic logic it is a deductive system of formal logic that presents to premises one called the major and one called the minor that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. | 13 | |
| 4987647355 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole, or occasionally the whole is used to represent a part. Ex: referring to a car as wheels. | 14 | |
| 4987647356 | Understatement | The ironic minimalizing of fact. Presents something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic. | 15 |
