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| 7406090667 | Allegory | Device of using character or story elements to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal idea. Examples include "Animal Farm." | 0 | |
| 7406095116 | Alliteration | "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers." | 1 | |
| 7406100705 | providence | God's plan | 2 | |
| 7406103397 | plain style | a simple, clear, unadorned writing style preferred by the Puritans | 3 | |
| 7406109686 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something such as a book, myth, place or art. | 4 | |
| 7406113401 | ambiguity | Multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, or passage. | 5 | |
| 7406117419 | Analogy | Comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.... "Pen is to paper as chalk is to _____" | 6 | |
| 7406124452 | Antithesis | Opposite or contrast of ideas. In literature, a form of syntactical parallelism - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." | 7 | |
| 7406128797 | Apostrophe | Addressing something that cannot answer: "Oh Fate, why have you thwarted me??!" | 8 | |
| 7406135516 | Caricature | A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate | 9 | |
| 7406138830 | Colloquial | Informality in writing; gives work a conversational tone | 10 | |
| 7406142379 | Conceit | A fanciful expression; displays verbal cleverness | 11 | |
| 7406146681 | Connotation | The associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning | 12 | |
| 7406149248 | Denotation | The strict, dictionary definition of a word | 13 | |
| 7406151110 | Diction | Word choice | 14 | |
| 7406152865 | Didactic | These words have the primary aim of teaching or instructing for a moral purpose | 15 | |
| 7406156510 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive way to say something | 16 | |
| 7406162447 | Homily | sermon | 17 | |
| 7406162448 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 18 | |
| 7406166944 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 19 | |
| 7406175357 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 20 | |
| 7406183281 | manifest | display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate. | 21 | |
| 7557149192 | Personification | Endowing animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits | 22 | |
| 7557155008 | Parody | A work that imitates another work for comic effect | 23 | |
| 7557158511 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes overly scholarly or "show-offy" language | 24 | |
| 7557167216 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its main clause at the end. | 25 | |
| 7557172482 | Irony | A contrast between what is stated and what is really meant | 26 | |
| 7557177156 | Metonymy | "Changed label" or "substitute name" | 27 | |
| 7557180400 | litotes | understatement | 28 | |
| 7557182743 | loose sentence | syntax in which the main, independent clause comes first | 29 | |
| 7557187369 | narrative | telling a story | 30 | |
| 7557190001 | prose | major division of genre | 31 | |
| 7557190002 | rhetoric | the art of writing and communicating effectively | 32 | |
| 7557195356 | sarcasm | From the Greek meaning "to tear flesh" | 33 | |
| 7557200306 | invective | hateful, bitter, angry speech | 34 | |
| 7633126197 | satire | a work that targets human foolishness with the goal of reform or ridicule. Often includes comic devices such as wit, irony, parody, caricature, and hyperbole. | 35 | |
| 7633133559 | semantics | studying the meaning of words, tracing their development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. | 36 | |
| 7633147189 | syllogism | a system of formal logic that involves a three part argument: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 37 | |
| 7633160451 | symbol | Anything that both represents itself AND stands for something else. Usually something concrete - such as an object. | 38 | |
| 7633165316 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a PART of something is used to represent the WHOLE. | 39 | |
| 7633169370 | synesthesia | a figure of speech in which one kind of sensory stimulus evokes another, for example, seeing red ants makes you itchy. | 40 | |
| 7633182547 | syntax | sentence structure | 41 | |
| 7633182548 | theme | central idea or message of the work; what the work is really ABOUT | 42 | |
| 7633185578 | tone | the author or speaker's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. | 43 | |
| 7633191326 | understatement | synonym for "litotes" - opposite of "hyperbole" | 44 | |
| 7633197022 | wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights | 45 |
