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| 9463987757 | anecdote | short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical event | 0 | |
| 9464004499 | diction | word choice | 1 | |
| 9464007509 | denotation | the straightforward (dictionary) meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 9464007510 | connotation | emotional overtones of a word: poison, victim, seized | 3 | |
| 9464021892 | euphemism | a more agreeable word substituted for an unpleasant word (died/passed away) |  | 4 |
| 9464024128 | colloquialism | slang and use of familiar expressions |  | 5 |
| 9464038420 | allusion | reference to history, mythology, religion or literature | 6 | |
| 9464038421 | analogy | illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel | 7 | |
| 9464041237 | apostrophe | addressing an absent figure or abstraction | 8 | |
| 9464041238 | extended metaphor | a metaphor defined with several examples | 9 | |
| 9464073829 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 10 | |
| 9464073830 | juxtaposition | the placing of two unlike things close to each other | 11 | |
| 9464104910 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms |  | 12 |
| 9464119790 | paradox | a statement that seems impossible or not true but that proves true |  | 13 |
| 9464119791 | understatement | minimalizes a fact | 14 | |
| 9464140265 | shift | change in position; movement | 15 | |
| 9464144426 | satire | writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule or scorn in order to change it | 16 | |
| 9464146898 | inference | information derived by reasoning | 17 | |
| 9464146899 | invective | the harsh denunciation of some person or thing in abusive speech or writing | 18 | |
| 9464146900 | parody | imitation of serious work or style in a ridiculous manner | 19 | |
| 9464171827 | sarcasm | technique that ridicules through caustic language | 20 | |
| 9464169683 | lampoon | imitation in writing harsh satire directed toward an individual or thing | 21 | |
| 9464193654 | syntax | the way in which words or phrases are ordered and connected to form sentences; or the set of grammatical rules governing such order | 22 | |
| 9464185505 | style | blend of choices about diction, syntax, and figurative language unique to individuals | 23 | |
| 9464222273 | antecedent | word referred to by a pronoun | 24 | |
| 9468277886 | antithesis | a balance of opposites | 25 | |
| 9468280691 | clause | group of words with a subject and a verb; can be independent or subordinate | 26 | |
| 9468286507 | loose sentence | type of sentence in which the main clause comes first | 27 | |
| 9468288814 | periodic sentence | main idea comes last in the sentence | 28 | |
| 9468298276 | pacing | rate at which a text develops based on length and arrangement of sentences | 29 | |
| 9468298277 | parallelism | the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses or sentences suggesting some correspondence between them | 30 | |
| 9468333831 | repetition | repeating a word or phrase for emphasis | 31 |
