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| 4788760626 | Active Voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action. |  | 0 |
| 4788760870 | Allusion | An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar. |  | 1 |
| 4788760871 | Anecdote | A short and interesting story or an amusing event. Anecdotes are often inserted into fictional or non fictional texts as a way of developing a point or injecting humor. | 2 | |
| 4788761016 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. |  | 3 |
| 4788761206 | Comic Relief | When a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood somewhat |  | 4 |
| 4788761546 | Diction | Style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer. |  | 5 |
| 4788761547 | Colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation. |  | 6 |
| 4788761851 | Connotation | A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Implied meaning rather than literal meaning. | 7 | |
| 4788761852 | Denotation | The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations. | 8 | |
| 4788763696 | Jargon | The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity. |  | 9 |
| 4788763697 | Vernacular | 1. Language or dialect of a particular country. 2. Language or dialect of a regional clan or group. 3. Plain everyday speech. | 10 | |
| 4788763852 | Didactic | A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behaviour or thinking. |  | 11 |
| 4788763853 | Adage | A short, pointed and memorable saying based on facts, and is considered a veritable truth by the majority of people. |  | 12 |
| 4788763943 | Allegory | A story, fictional or non-fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. The interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth. |  | 13 |
| 4788763944 | Aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. |  | 14 |
| 4788768845 | Ellipsis | A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out. |  | 15 |
| 4788768846 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. Sometimes they are used for political correctness. |  | 16 |
| 4788769040 | Figurative Language | Writing that is not meant to be taken literally. | 17 | |
| 4788771592 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. |  | 18 |
| 4788771593 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. |  | 19 |
| 4788771707 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. |  | 20 |
| 4788771708 | Metaphor | Making an implied comparison, not using "like," as," or other such words. |  | 21 |
| 4788771988 | Metonymy | Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept. |  | 22 |
| 4788771989 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. |  | 23 |
| 4788772117 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things. |  | 24 |
| 4788772118 | Synesthesia | A description involving a "crossing of the senses." |  | 25 |
| 4788772119 | Personification | Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human. |  | 26 |
| 4788772276 | Foreshadowing | When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. |  | 27 |
| 4788772277 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. |  | 28 |
| 4788772278 | Gothic | Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death. | 29 | |
| 4788772401 | Imagery | An author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. |  | 30 |
| 4788772405 | Invective | A long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language. | 31 | |
| 4788772658 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does. |  | 32 |
| 4788772774 | Verbal Irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/something different. |  | 33 |
| 4788772775 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out. |  | 34 |
| 4788773014 | Situational Irony | When there is an inconsistency between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. |  | 35 |
| 4788773015 | Juxtaposition | Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison. |  | 36 |
| 4788773225 | Mood | The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through diction. |  | 37 |
| 4788773226 | Motif | A recurring idea in a piece of literature. | 38 | |
| 4788773227 | Oxymoron | Two contradictory words are together in one phrase. |  | 39 |
| 4788773435 | Pacing | The speed or tempo of an author's writing. |  | 40 |
| 4788773436 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true. |  | 41 |
| 4788773654 | Parallel Structure or Balanced Sentences | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns. | 42 | |
| 4788775102 | Parallelism | Used to add emphasis, organisation, or sometimes pacing to writing. |  | 43 |
| 4788774807 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent |  | 44 |
| 4788774808 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the words is reversed. |  | 45 |
| 4788775470 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. |  | 46 |
| 4788775806 | Zeugma (Syllepsis) | Using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. | 47 | |
| 4788775943 | Parenthetical Idea | Used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence but can also be used to set off dates and numbers. |  | 48 |
| 4788775944 | Parody | An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. |  | 49 |
| 4788776029 | Persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story. | 50 | |
| 4788776030 | Polysyndeton | When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions. |  | 51 |
| 4788776241 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way. |  | 52 |
| 4788776242 | Rhetoric | The art of effective communication. |  | 53 |
| 4788776249 | Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle | The relationships, in any piece of writing, between the writer, the audience, and the subject. All analysis of writing is essentially an analysis of the relationships between the points on the triangle. |  | 54 |
| 4788776543 | Rhetorical Question | Question not asked for information but for effect. |  | 55 |
| 4788776544 | Hypophora | A figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question. |  | 56 |
| 4788776678 | Sarcasm | A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded. |  | 57 |
| 4788777736 | Satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. |  | 58 |
| 4788777737 | Appositive | A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning. |  | 59 |
| 4788777961 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. |  | 60 |
| 4788778117 | Style | The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. | 61 | |
| 4788778458 | Syntax/Sentence Variety | Grammatical arrangement of words. |  | 62 |
| 5246244620 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work. | 63 | |
| 4788779000 | Thesis | The sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition. It should be short and clear. | 64 | |
| 4788779001 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language and organization. | 65 | |
| 4788779002 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is. |  | 66 |
| 4788779198 | Litotes | A particular form of understatement, generated by denying the opposite of the statement which otherwise would be used. |  | 67 |
