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| 9995711126 | Allegory | narrative with multiple levels of meaning | 0 | |
| 9995715341 | Alliteration | sequential repeating of similar initial sound | 1 | |
| 9995724116 | Allusion | a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference | 2 | |
| 9995730808 | Anaphora | repetition of words at start of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 9995736505 | Antithesis | juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words | 4 | |
| 9995752093 | Aphorism | concise statement designed to make a point/illustrate commonly had beliefs | 5 | |
| 9995760536 | Apostrophe | address to something inanimate | 6 | |
| 9995766086 | Assonance | repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 9995778892 | Asyndeton | style where conjunctions are omitted | 8 | |
| 9995783494 | Attitude | tone, voice/mood of writing | 9 | |
| 9995784871 | Begging the Question | ploy where an arguer sidesteps question/conflict, evading/ignoring question | 10 | |
| 9995792394 | Canon | that which has been accepted as authentic | 11 | |
| 9995796500 | Claim | an assertion of something as fact | 12 | |
| 9995813550 | Colloquial | ordinary language, vernacular | 13 | |
| 9995823195 | Conceit | prolonged comparison of two unlikely things | 14 | |
| 9995828736 | Connotation | meaning suggested by a word, apart from its denotation, or explicit definition | 15 | |
| 9995839255 | Consonance | repetition of two or more consonants | 16 | |
| 9995845555 | Convention | accepted manner, model, or tradition | 17 | |
| 9995863596 | Deductive Reasoning | argument in which specific statements/conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from general to specific | 18 | |
| 9995873992 | Dialect | language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people | 19 | |
| 9995886879 | Diction | specific word choice to persuade or convey tone | 20 | |
| 9995905623 | Didactic | containing instructive purpose or a lesson | 21 | |
| 9995908928 | Elegy | poetic lament upon death of a particular person | 22 | |
| 9995917808 | Epistrophe | repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences | 23 | |
| 9995939847 | Epitaph | praise for a dead person, usually on a headstone | 24 | |
| 9995947136 | Ethos | appeal of text to credibility and character of writer | 25 | |
| 9995955130 | Eulogy | speech or prose in praise of deceased person | 26 | |
| 9995962809 | Euphemism | kinder way to give unpleasant information | 27 | |
| 9995969376 | Expository | explains its own meaning or purpose | 28 | |
| 9995974996 | Extended Metaphor | series of comparisons within a piece of writing | 29 | |
| 9995981586 | Figurative Language/Figure of Speech | levels of meaning expressed through personification, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, oxymoron, litotes, etc. | 30 | |
| 9995989998 | Genre | type or class of literature | 31 | |
| 9995993323 | Homily | sermon, talk, lecture on moral or spiritual life | 32 | |
| 9996004528 | Hyperbole | overstatement using exaggerated language | 33 | |
| 9996011465 | Imagery | use of figurative language to evoke a feeling/idea, describe an object | 34 | |
| 9996019792 | Inductive Reasoning | argument in which general conclusions are drawn from specific facts | 35 | |
| 9996027074 | Inference | conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts/observations/data | 36 | |
| 9996037460 | Irony | contrast between what is said and what is meant | 37 | |
| 9996043205 | Jargon | specialized/technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group | 38 | |
| 9996051505 | Juxtaposition | location of one thing adjacent to another | 39 | |
| 9996056029 | Litote | figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious statement | 40 | |
| 9996324718 | Metaphor | One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting likeness; an implied comparison | 41 | |
| 9996324719 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which an attribute/feature is used to name/designate something | 42 | |
| 9996324720 | Mood | Feeling/ambience resulting from tone and writer/narrator's attitude/point of view | 43 | |
| 9996324721 | Narrative | Mode of discourse that tells a story based on sequences of connected events, usually chronological | 44 | |
| 9996324722 | Onomatopoeia | Word that sounds like what it describes | 45 | |
| 9996324723 | Oxymoron | figure of speech combining two apparently contradictory elements, often humorous | 46 | |
| 9996324724 | Paradox | Seemingly contradictory statement | 47 | |
| 9996324725 | Pathos | Element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow | 48 | |
| 9996324726 | Personification | giving human qualities to abstract idea/nonhuman object | 49 | |
| 9996324727 | Point of View | Relation of narrator/author to subject | 50 | |
| 9996324728 | Prose | Ordinary form of written language, not poetry | 51 | |
| 9996324729 | Realism | Describing nature/life without idealization | 52 | |
| 9996324730 | Rebuttal/Refutation | Countering of anticipated arguments | 53 | |
| 9996324731 | Rhetorical Question | question asked for stylistic effect, answer not expected | 54 | |
| 9996324732 | Rhetoric | The art of using words to persuade | 55 | |
| 9996324733 | Sarcasm | Verbal irony in which "praise" is actually critical | 56 | |
| 9996324734 | Satire | Literary work that ridicules human failings | 57 | |
| 9996324735 | Simile | Direct comparison using like or as | 58 | |
| 9996324736 | Style | Distinctive manner of expression | 59 | |
| 9996324737 | Symbolism | Element of literary work that figuratively stands for something else | 60 | |
| 9996324738 | Synecdoche | When a part is used to signify a whole | 61 | |
| 9996324739 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 62 | |
| 9996324740 | Theme | Central or dominant idea or focus of a work | 63 | |
| 9996324741 | Tone | Attitude literary work takes toward its subject/theme | 64 | |
| 9996324742 | Voice | source of the words of the story | 65 | |
| 10942333175 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 66 |
