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| 7038749643 | Allegory | A work that functions on a symbolic level | 0 | |
| 7038749644 | Allusion | A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing | 1 | |
| 7038749645 | Analogy | A comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship | 2 | |
| 7038749646 | Diction | Word choice intended to convey a certain effect | 3 | |
| 7038749647 | Dialect | A nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features | 4 | |
| 7038749648 | Didactic | Describes writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach | 5 | |
| 7038749649 | Epigraph | A quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme | 6 | |
| 7038749650 | Epitaph | An inscription on a tombstone or burial place | 7 | |
| 7038749651 | Epithet | A term used to point out a characteristic of a person | 8 | |
| 7038749652 | Eulogy | A formal speech praising a person who has died | 9 | |
| 7038749653 | Exposition | Part of a story which describes the background and setting and introduces the main character | 10 | |
| 7038749654 | Genre | Term used to classify literary and informational works | 11 | |
| 7038749655 | Hyperbole | Deliberate, extravagant exaggeration | 12 | |
| 7038749656 | Imagery | Descriptive words used to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas by appealing to the senses | 13 | |
| 7038749657 | Verbal irony | When a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite | 14 | |
| 7038749658 | Situational irony | When a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect | 15 | |
| 7038755342 | Dramatic irony | When the audience has understanding or knowledge that the speaker does not | 16 | |
| 7038756980 | Motif | The repetition or variations of an image or ideas in a work used to develop theme or characters | 17 | |
| 7038758509 | Paradox | When elements of a statement contradict each other yet reveal a hidden truth | 18 | |
| 7038759689 | Paraphrase | The restatement of a text in different words | 19 | |
| 7038761098 | Pedantic | Describes writing that borders on lecturing | 20 | |
| 7038762753 | Persona | The role or façade that a character assumes | 21 | |
| 7038765080 | Primary source | The original source of resource information | 22 | |
| 7038767553 | Pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but have sharply diverse meanings | 23 | |
| 7038769686 | Rhetoric | The language of a written work and its style | 24 | |
| 7038770694 | Sarcasm | The use of verbal irony in which the speaker appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it | 25 | |
| 7038774642 | Satire | A mode of writing based on ridicule that criticizes the foibles and follies of society without offering a solution | 26 | |
| 7038777360 | Understatement | Irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 27 | |
| 7038778843 | Subjective | Describes a personal perspective on a topic | 28 | |
| 7038780161 | Symbol | Any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and represents something larger than itself | 29 | |
| 7038781928 | Synthesis | When the writer or speaker uses multiple sources to argue a point of view on a given issue | 30 | |
| 7038782796 | Theme | The central message of literary work | 31 | |
| 7038784175 | Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience | 32 | |
| 7038786271 | Tragedy | A work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle which ends in ruin or destruction | 33 | |
| 7038788033 | Compound | A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating junction or semicolon | 34 | |
| 7038788762 | Complex | A sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses | 35 | |
| 7038790260 | Compound-complex | A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses | 36 | |
| 7038792769 | Cumulative | A sentence that makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending | 37 | |
| 7038800161 | Periodic | A sentence that makes sense fully only when the end of the sentence is reached | 38 | |
| 7038802043 | Balanced | A sentence in which the clauses balance each other because of their likeness of structure | 39 | |
| 7038803446 | Inverted | A sentence that is constructed so that the predicate comes before the subject | 40 |
