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| 10380390330 | Allegory | The device of using character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 10380390331 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 1 | |
| 10380390332 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 2 | |
| 10380390333 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 3 | |
| 10380390334 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses and absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction. | 4 | |
| 10380390335 | Bathos | Insincere or overdone sentimentality | 5 | |
| 10380390336 | Bombast | Inflated, pretentious language. | 6 | |
| 10380390337 | Circumlocution | speech that avoids direct reference to the subject. | 7 | |
| 10380390338 | Clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. and independent or main clause expresses a complete thought that can stand alone as a sentence. A dependent or subordinate clause cannot stand alone and must be accompanied by an independent clause. | 8 | |
| 10380390339 | Colloquial | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. | 9 | |
| 10380390340 | Conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor | 10 | |
| 10380390341 | Deductive Reasoning | a method of reasoning by which specific conclusions are drawn from a general principle. | 11 | |
| 10380390342 | Didactic | Using words that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing. | 12 | |
| 10380390343 | Digression | The portion of discourse that departs from the main subject. | 13 | |
| 10380390344 | Eliptical Construction | Omitting a word or phrase from a sentence for effect. | 14 | |
| 10380390345 | Epigram | A witty saying | 15 | |
| 10380390346 | Epithet | a repeated word or phrase to describe a person | 16 | |
| 10380390347 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 17 | |
| 10380390348 | Harangue | a forceful sermon or lecture | 18 | |
| 10380390349 | Homily | a sermon on a moral theme | 19 | |
| 10380390350 | Inductive Reasoning | A method in which specific facts and examples are used to make a generalization | 20 | |
| 10380390351 | Invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong abusive language. | 21 | |
| 10380390352 | Litotes | understatement which uses a negative to affirm a positive. | 22 | |
| 10380390353 | Loose Sentence | a sentence where the main idea is presented first, subordinate ideas follow. | 23 | |
| 10380390354 | Malapropism | A confused use of words in which the appropriate word is replaced by one that sounds the same, but means different. | 24 | |
| 10380390355 | Metonymy | When the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 25 | |
| 10380390356 | Motif | A unifying phrase, idea or event presented throughout an entire work. Often used to convey theme. | 26 | |
| 10380390357 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 27 | |
| 10380390358 | Anaphora | a sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines. | 28 | |
| 10380390359 | Isocolon | using a series of clauses of the same lenght | 29 | |
| 10380390360 | Chiasmus | Using 2 clauses related by a reversal of structure. | 30 | |
| 10380390361 | Pastoral | a work of literature dealing with rural life | 31 | |
| 10380390362 | Pedantic | an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. | 32 | |
| 10380390363 | Periodic Sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 33 | |
| 10380390364 | Polysyndeton | using many coordination conjunctions in a sentence or passage | 34 | |
| 10380390365 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which the part is used to represent the whole. | 35 | |
| 10380390366 | Repetition | Tied to parallelism, this is the duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language such as sound word, phrase, clause, sentence or grammatical pattern. | 36 | |
| 10380390367 | Rhetorical Modes | Purpose of writing and speaking (exposition, persuasion, description, narration) | 37 | |
| 10380390368 | Trope | generic name for figures of speech | 38 |
