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| 4929052506 | Aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | 0 | |
| 4929052507 | Apostrophe | The act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present | 1 | |
| 4929052508 | Assonance | Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words | 2 | |
| 4929052509 | Cacophonous | An expression that is deliberately ill-sounding | 3 | |
| 4929205191 | Consonance | Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase ("Shelly sells sea shells by the sea shore.") | 4 | |
| 4929205192 | Epigram | Either a short poem with a brief, pointedly humorous, quotable ending or simply a terse, witty statement in and of itself ("Mankind must put an end to war, or war will out an end to mankind.") | 5 | |
| 4929205193 | Epigraph | refers to a passage printed on the title page or first page of a literary work or at the beginning of each section of a work (In Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, he began with "Impia tortorum longos hic turba forores/Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit. / Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, / Mors ubi dira fuit vita salusque patent.") | 6 | |
| 5028702480 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one (George Orwell's Animal Farm was really a political statement against communism) | 7 | |
| 5028711231 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words ("Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.") | 8 | |
| 5028719494 | Allusion | A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification (Your backyard is a Garden of Eden.) | 9 | |
| 5028728726 | Ambiguity | A negative term to describe when an author is too vague, however, it may be intentionally done to open up many possible meanings or to create humor (John took off his trousers by the bank. (Here the "bank" could refer to either a business that deals with money or to the land on either side of a river.)) | 10 | |
| 5028747087 | Antagonist | The character whom the protagonist struggles against (Darth Vadar is the antagonist in Star Wars.) | 11 | |
| 5028761177 | Attitude | The perspective or tone of the writer as he or she adopts in a certain work ("All morons hate it when you call them a moron.") | 12 | |
| 5028767289 | Cliche | An expression that is deliberately ill-sounding "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bande | 13 | |
| 5028789207 | Colloquial | A word or phrase used everyday in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing | 14 | |
| 5028795161 | Conflict | The opposition between two characters, two groups of characters, a character and a force of nature, or a character and him or herself. | 15 | |
| 5028806561 | Connotation | The extra tinge or taint of meaning each word carries beyond the minimal, strict definition found in a dictionary | 16 | |
| 5028814745 | Denotation | The minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary, disregarding any historical or emotional connotation | 17 | |
| 5028820353 | Denouement | the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction | 18 | |
| 5028827331 | Dialect | The language of a particular district, class, or group of people. | 19 | |
| 5028833183 | Dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters in a literary work | 20 | |
| 5028837085 | Diction | An author's word choice | 21 | |
| 5028847862 | Euphemism | A polite, indirect expression which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant | 22 | |
| 5028862509 | Euphonious | to group words together harmoniously, so that the consonants permit an easy and pleasing flow of sound when spoken | 23 | |
| 5028868765 | Exposition | The use of authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail | 24 | |
| 5028873039 | Falling Action | occurs right after the climax, when the main problem of the story resolves | 25 | |
| 5028877678 | Figures of Speech | A scheme or a trope used for rhetorical or artistic effect | 26 | |
| 5028883703 | Flashback | A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events--usually in the form of a character's memories, dreams, narration, or even authorial commentary | 27 | |
| 5028891843 | Foreshadowing | Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative | 28 | |
| 5028898555 | Hyperbole | the trope of exaggeration or overstatement | 29 | |
| 5028903461 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 30 | |
| 5028913159 | Metaphor | a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics | 31 | |
| 5028916548 | Mood | In literature, mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings in readers through words and descriptions | 32 | |
| 5028923368 | Objective | To write without use of personal bias or opinions | 33 | |
| 5028930128 | Onomatopoeia | The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect | 34 | |
| 5028938290 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect | 35 | |
| 5028945168 | Paradox | It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth | 36 | |
| 5028951191 | Paraphrase | A brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work, as opposed to quotation, in which one reproduces all or part of a literary or critical work word-for-word, exactly | 37 | |
| 5028955156 | Parody | an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect | 38 | |
| 5028959837 | Personification | A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reaction | 39 | |
| 5028966644 | Point of View | The way a story gets told and who tells it. It is the method of narration that determines the position, or angle of vision, from which the story unfolds. Point of view governs the reader's access to the story. | 40 | |
| 5028969041 | Protagonist | The main character in a work, on whom the author focuses most of the narrative attention | 41 | |
| 5028978677 | Rising Action | Occurs after the exposition, when a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest and tension lead to the climax | 42 | |
| 5028981443 | Satire | An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards | 43 | |
| 5028999623 | Setting | The general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs; the setting of an episode or scene within a work is the particular physical location in which it takes place | 44 | |
| 5029004286 | Simile | An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverbial preposition such as like or as, in contrast with a metaphor, which figuratively makes the comparison by stating outright that one thing is another thing | 45 | |
| 5029009912 | Speaker | The voice behind a story or poem; the person we imagine to be saying it out loud | 46 | |
| 5029014637 | Subjective | To write with personal biases and opinions | 47 | |
| 5029017530 | Symbol | A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level | 48 | |
| 5029020521 | Syntax | The sequence in which words are put together to form sentences | 49 | |
| 5029023678 | Theme | A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work | 50 | |
| 5029026840 | Thesis | an argument, either overt or implicit, that a writer develops and supports | 51 | |
| 5029031307 | Tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience | 52 | |
| 5844451510 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses (The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery) | 53 | |
| 5844451511 | Isocolon | A kind of parallelism where a series of structured elements have the same length (That government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth) | 54 | |
| 5844451512 | Antithesis | Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in the same sentence (That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind) | 55 | |
| 5844451513 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between clauses (They sat in one room, princes, dukes, barons, earls, kings) | 56 | |
| 5844451514 | Polysyndeton | Employing many conjunctions between clauses (The buffet table was a riot of beef and lamb and fish and vegetables and candied fruits and all sorts of wonderful sweets) | 57 | |
| 5844451515 | Anadiplosis | The repetition from the end of one phrase to the beginning of the next (In education we find the measure of our own ignorance; in ignorance we find the beginning of wisdom) | 58 | |
| 5844451516 | Anaphora | Repetition at the beginning of phrases that is often used in parallelism (This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by Nature for herself) | 59 | |
| 5844451517 | Epistrophe | Repetition at the end of phrases (What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us) | 60 | |
| 5844451518 | Ellipsis | Omission of a word or short phrase that is easily understood in context (The average person thinks he isn't) | 61 | |
| 5844451519 | Parenthesis | Insertion of a phrase or whole sentence that interrupts the normal syntactical flow (This continued for many years - some would say longer than it should have - before the newly elected officials put an end to it) | 62 | |
| 5844451520 | Zeugma | Unexpected items in a sentence are linked together by a shared word (The runner lost the race and his scholarship) | 63 | |
| 5844451521 | Anastrophe | Departure from the normal word order for the sake of emphasis (Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer) | 64 | |
| 5844451522 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse grammatical order (Eat live, not live to eat) | 65 | |
| 5844451523 | Chiasmus | Repetition of ideas in inverted order or repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (He smiled happily and joyfully laughed) | 66 | |
| 5844451524 | Erotema | The rhetorical question: a question in which the answer is readily implied (In this modern age can we truly condone such horrific acts?) | 67 | |
| 5844451525 | Hypophora | A question that one poses then immediately answers (Why direct action? Isn't negotiating. A better path? You are quite right in calling for for negotiation. Indeed this is the very purpose of direct action) | 68 | |
| 5844451526 | Epiplexis | A question that is meant to chide, express grief, or denounce (What kind of and idiot are you?) | 69 | |
| 5844451527 | Metonymy | Referring to someone or something by naming an associated object (In a corner, a cluster of lab coats made lunch plans) | 70 | |
| 5844451528 | Synecdoche | Referring to someone or something by naming a part of it (Pigskin = football) | 71 | |
| 5844451529 | Anecdote | A short story meant to illustrate a point | 72 | |
| 5844451530 | Litotes | Stating a negative to communicate its opposite positive (She's not bad looking) | 73 |
