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| 9724314309 | ad hominem | 0 | ||
| 9724314310 | allegory | 1 | ||
| 9724314311 | alliteration | 2 | ||
| 9724314672 | allusion | 3 | ||
| 9724315674 | ambiguity | intentional or unintentional multiple meanings of a word | 4 | |
| 9724323588 | anachronism | a thing belonging to different time period | 5 | |
| 9724326444 | analepsis | flashing back earlier point in the story | 6 | |
| 9724327439 | prolepsis | "flashing forward" to a later moment in the chronological sequence of events | 7 | |
| 9724332283 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of the previous clause (Yoda's quote) | 8 | |
| 9724335001 | analogy | comparing similarities | 9 | |
| 9724338974 | anaphora | structure starting with same words | 10 | |
| 9724344432 | antecedent | a word/phrase which another word refers to | 11 | |
| 9724345378 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 12 | |
| 9724346729 | aporia | An expression of doubt of perplexity (by developing arguments for both sides) | 13 | |
| 9724350675 | aposiopesis | broken sentence | 14 | |
| 9724351171 | appositive | also called a noun phrase, this modifies the noun next to it | 15 | |
| 9724354328 | apostrophe | quotation mark | 16 | |
| 9724357135 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 17 | |
| 9724360683 | asyndeton | a writing style that has conjunction between words | 18 | |
| 9724362176 | atmosphere | emotion created by the entire work | 19 | |
| 9724363438 | mood | emotion that the reader felt as the result of reading the text | 20 | |
| 9724364481 | attitude | author's approach, stance | 21 | |
| 9724366009 | audience | readers | 22 | |
| 9724367941 | autotelic | to have within itself a purpose of existence | 23 | |
| 9724371114 | bathos | bath of pathos - going from serious to ridiculous | 24 | |
| 9724375868 | begging the question | circular arguments - avoiding the important questions | 25 | |
| 9724391967 | caesura | // | 26 | |
| 9724391968 | canon | collection of books | 27 | |
| 9724410964 | catharsis | process of releasing and relief from a repressed strong emotion | 28 | |
| 9724392935 | chiasmus | grammatical construction X - switch the word cross X | 29 | |
| 9724397095 | clause | subject + predicate | 30 | |
| 9724397581 | cliché | over familiar | 31 | |
| 9724398317 | colloquial | used in familiar conversation | 32 | |
| 9724400100 | comparison & contrast | bring together two things in order to emphasize on the similarities and differences | 33 | |
| 9724402076 | conceit | far-fetched simile or metaphor | 34 | |
| 9724404239 | connotation | invoke of additional feeling to a word beside its literal meaning | 35 | |
| 9724405364 | denotation | literal meaning | 36 | |
| 9724406837 | deductive reasoning | general -> specific | 37 | |
| 9724408112 | inductive reasoning | specific -> generalization | 38 | |
| 9724420541 | diction | the choice and use of words | 39 | |
| 9724448444 | didactic | moral lesson | 40 | |
| 9724449570 | pedantic | shallow | 41 | |
| 9724450945 | either/or fallacy | two alteration POV are presented as the ONLY option | 42 | |
| 9724456351 | ellipses | omission from speech or writing of a word that to be understood from contextual clues | 43 | |
| 9724465235 | epic | a long poem of heroic figures or history of a nation | 44 | |
| 9724469302 | epigram | brief or pithy statement/poem | 45 | |
| 9724475924 | epigraph | short quotation/saying at beginning - intended to suggest its theme | 46 | |
| 9724479922 | epiphany | moment of realization of insight | 47 | |
| 9724492012 | epistolary novel | novel compromised of journal and letters | 48 | |
| 9724492845 | epithet | a characterizing word/phrase referring to a specific person or thing, for literal purpose. (Raider of Cities, wine-dark sea,...) | 49 |
