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| 6298806252 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 6298812651 | alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. | 1 | |
| 6298818811 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work or art. | 2 | |
| 6298826541 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 6298831463 | analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 6298834658 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 5 | |
| 6298841956 | antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 6 | |
| 6298845120 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which express a general truth or a moral principle. | 7 | |
| 6298849995 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 8 | |
| 6298856088 | atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | 9 | |
| 6298862945 | caricature | A verbal description, the purpose of which is t exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. | 10 | |
| 6298869934 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 11 | |
| 6298872819 | colloquial/colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. | 12 | |
| 6298876911 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 13 | |
| 6298881470 | connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 14 | |
| 6298885478 | denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | 15 | |
| 6298889444 | diction | The writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. | 16 | |
| 6298893477 | didactic | Having the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. | 17 | |
| 6298900128 | euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. | 18 | |
| 6298908068 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 19 | |
| 6298912262 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. | 20 | |
| 6298917299 | figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language. | 21 | |
| 6298922071 | generic conventions | Traditions for each genre. | 22 | |
| 6298924633 | genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. | 23 | |
| 6298929608 | homily | Any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | 24 | |
| 6298942266 | hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. | 25 | |
| 6298945799 | imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. | 26 | |
| 6298953619 | inference/infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 27 | |
| 6298956759 | invective | A emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 28 | |
| 6298962802 | irony/ironic | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. | 29 | |
| 6298969916 | litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. | 30 | |
| 6298978289 | loose sentence/non-periodic sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 31 | |
| 6298985977 | metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison or seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. | 32 | |
| 6298992406 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 33 | |
| 6298997940 | mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. | 34 | |
| 6299000002 | narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 35 | |
| 6299003109 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 36 | |
| 6299007140 | oxymoron | A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory term to suggest a paradox. | 37 | |
| 6299014813 | 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. | 38 | |
| 6299021212 | parallelism | The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 39 | |
| 6299029452 | anaphora | A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases occurs at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. | 40 | |
| 6299035553 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 41 | |
| 6299039524 | pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. | 42 | |
| 6299043545 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 43 | |
| 6299047564 | personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 44 | |
| 6299054800 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told. | 45 | |
| 6299058549 | prose | One of the major divisions of genre; refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all forms. | 46 | |
| 6299063621 | repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 47 | |
| 6299070016 | rhetoric | The principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently and persuasively. | 48 | |
| 6299078178 | rhetorical modes | The variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. | 49 | |
| 6299083287 | sarcasm | Bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. | 50 | |
| 6299086461 | satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 51 | |
| 6299090139 | semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relations to one another. | 52 | |
| 6299095289 | style | Style. | 53 | |
| 6299099429 | subject complement | The word or clause that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject or the sentence by either renaming it (predicative nominative) or describing it (predicative adjective). | 54 | |
| 6299108896 | subordinate clause | A clause that cannot stand alone and does not express a complete thought. | 55 | |
| 6299114534 | syllogism | A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. | 56 | |
| 6299121102 | symbol/symbolism | Anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | 57 | |
| 6299123800 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole si used to represent a part. | 58 | |
| 6299133260 | synesthesia | Wen one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. | 59 | |
| 6299136972 | syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 60 | |
| 6299139573 | theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. | 61 | |
| 6299142414 | thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position. | 62 | |
| 6299146524 | tone | The author's attitude toward his/her material, the audience, or both. | 63 | |
| 6299152412 | transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas. | 64 | |
| 6299154444 | understatement | The ironic minimalizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. | 65 | |
| 6299160804 | wit | Intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. | 66 |
