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| 7753801847 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 0 | |
| 7753801848 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 7753801849 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 2 | |
| 7753801850 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 3 | |
| 7753801851 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 4 | |
| 7753801852 | Antecedent | The word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 5 | |
| 7753801853 | Aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 6 | |
| 7753801854 | Apostrophe | An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present | 7 | |
| 7753801855 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 8 | |
| 7753801856 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 9 | |
| 7753801857 | Didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | 10 | |
| 7753801858 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 11 | |
| 7753801859 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 12 | |
| 7753801860 | Inference | A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning | 13 | |
| 7753801861 | Invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 14 | |
| 7753801862 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 15 | |
| 7753801863 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 16 | |
| 7753801864 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 17 | |
| 7753801865 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 18 | |
| 7753801866 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 19 | |
| 7753801867 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 20 | |
| 7753801868 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 21 | |
| 7753801869 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 22 | |
| 7753801870 | Prose | One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms | 23 | |
| 7753801871 | Rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively | 24 | |
| 7753801872 | rhetorical appeal | The persuasive device by which a writer tries to sway the audience's attention and response to any given work | 25 | |
| 7753801873 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 26 | |
| 7753801874 | Ethos | Credibility | 27 | |
| 7753801875 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 28 | |
| 7753801876 | Rhetorical modes | describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing | 29 | |
| 7753801877 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory | 30 | |
| 7753801878 | Argumentation | exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it; persuasion through reason | 31 | |
| 7753801879 | Description | a statement that depicts a person, event, idea, or the like with clarity and vividness | 32 | |
| 7753801880 | Narration | retelling an event or series of events | 33 | |
| 7753801881 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 34 | |
| 7753801882 | Satire | using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule | 35 | |
| 7753801883 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 36 | |
| 7753801884 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning with a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 37 | |
| 7753801885 | symbol/symbolism | Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | 38 | |
| 7753801886 | Synesthesia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another | 39 | |
| 7753801887 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 40 | |
| 7753801888 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 41 | |
| 7753801889 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 42 | |
| 7753801890 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. | 43 |
