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| 10489275785 | abstract | relating to involving general ideas or qualities rather than specific people, objects or actions | 0 | |
| 10489278472 | concrete | relating or involving specific people, things or actions rather than general ideas or qualities | 1 | |
| 10489280045 | allegory | a story, fictional or nonfictional, 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 truth | 2 | |
| 10489287052 | allusion | a direct/indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art; can be historical, literary, religious, topical, mythical, | 3 | |
| 10489318542 | Ambiguity | the multiple meanings either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence or passage | 4 | |
| 10489319410 | Anacoluthon | a grammatical interruption or lack of implied sequence within a sentence | 5 | |
| 10489320017 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word or phrase from a previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next | 6 | |
| 10489323432 | Analogy | a comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables | 7 | |
| 10489323433 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines | 8 | |
| 10489324858 | Anastrophe | transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of prepositions and words they control | 9 | |
| 10489325962 | Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event (usually referred to incident) | 10 | |
| 10489327287 | Anthimeria | substitution of one part of speech for another | 11 | |
| 10489328024 | Antistrophe | repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses | 12 | |
| 10489328793 | Antithesis | opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction | 13 | |
| 10489331186 | Aphorism | a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 14 | |
| 10489332050 | Aporia | expression of doubt (fake) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think or do | 15 | |
| 10489332881 | Aposiopesis | a form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion or modesty | 16 | |
| 10489356735 | Apostrophe | a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction or present | 17 | |
| 10489356761 | Appositive | word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning | 18 | |
| 10489367994 | Archaism | use of an older or obsolete form | 19 | |
| 10489367995 | Assonance | repetition of the same sound in words close to each other | 20 | |
| 10489367996 | Asyndeton | lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words | 21 | |
| 10489367997 | Antanaclasis | a phrase or word is repeatedly used though the meaning of the word changes in each case | 22 | |
| 10489367998 | balanced sentence | made up of two segments equal in length and importance and grammatical structure | 23 | |
| 10489367999 | Brachylogy | a general term for abbreviated or condensed expression of which acetone and zeugma are types. ellipse used synonymously | 24 | |
| 10489368000 | Cacophony | harsh joining of sound | 25 | |
| 10489368001 | Catachresis | a harsh metaphor involving the use of a word beyond its strict fear | 26 | |
| 10489368002 | Chiasmus | two corresponding pears not arranged in parallels (abab) but in inverted order (abba) | 27 | |
| 10489368003 | complex sentence | sentences containing subordinate clause/s | 28 | |
| 10489368004 | compound sentence | a sentence with more than one subject or predicate | 29 | |
| 10489368005 | Connotation | implied meaning rather than literal meaning | 30 | |
| 10489494016 | consonance | repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words | 31 | |
| 10489494017 | counterexample | example that runs counter to a generalization that's falsifying it | 32 | |
| 10489494018 | cumulative (loose) sentence | begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases or clauses that modify the main clause | 33 | |
| 10489494019 | declarative | states an idea | 34 | |
| 10489494020 | declarative sentence | states an idea- not a command | 35 | |
| 10489494021 | denotation | literal explicit meaning of a word without connotations | 36 | |
| 10489494022 | diction | word choice, element of style | 37 | |
| 10489494023 | didactic | describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral | 38 | |
| 10489494024 | double entendre | word or expression that can be understood in two different ways | 39 | |
| 10489494025 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 40 | |
| 10489494026 | ellipsis | omission of a word or short phrase easily understood in context | 41 | |
| 10489494027 | enthymeme | informal method of reasoning typical of rhetorical discourse (truncated syllogism) | 42 | |
| 10489494028 | epanalepsis | repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter, repetition at the end of a line phrase or clause | 43 | |
| 10489494029 | epistrophe | ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses or sentences with same word or words | 44 | |
| 10489494030 | epithet | a word or phrase that describes a person or thing | 45 | |
| 10489494031 | epizeuxis | repetition of words in betweens for vehemence or emphasis | 46 | |
| 10489494032 | ethos | credibility or being convinced by credibility of the author | 47 | |
| 10489494033 | euphemism | substitution of an agreeable or at least not offensive expression for one whose planer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant | 48 | |
| 10489494034 | farce | a funny play or movie about ridiculous situations and events | 49 | |
| 10489494035 | hendiadys | use of two words connected by a conjunction, instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea | 50 | |
| 10489494036 | hypallage | " exchanging, transferred epithet" grammatical agreement of a word with another word which it does not logically qualify | 51 | |
| 10489494037 | hyperbaton | separation of words which belong together often to emphasize the first of the separated words or to create a certain image | 52 | |
| 10489494038 | hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect | 53 | |
| 10489494039 | hysteron proteron | inversion of the natural stress the event which, the later in time, is considered important (" later- earlier") | 54 | |
| 10489494040 | imperative | having the form that expresses a command rather than a statement or a question | 55 | |
| 10489494041 | imperative sentence | issues a command | 56 | |
| 10489494042 | interrogative sentence | sentences incorporated interrogative pronouns ( what, which, who, etc.) | 57 | |
| 10489494043 | interrupt | to say something while someone is talking; to cause something to stop happening for a time | 58 | |
| 10489494044 | invective | a long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language | 59 | |
| 10489494045 | irony | expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another | 60 | |
| 10489494046 | juxtaposition | placing things side-by-side for the purpose of comparison | 61 | |
| 10489494047 | kairos | a propitious moment for decision or action | 62 | |
| 10489494048 | lexiphanicism | use of pretentious words or language | 63 | |
| 10489494049 | litotes | understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed | 64 | |
| 10489494050 | logos | the principle of reason and judgment, associated with the animus | 65 | |
| 10489494051 | macaronicism | a style of language in which latin forms and words are mixed with vernacular words | 66 | |
| 10489494052 | malapropism | amusing error that occurs when a person mistakenly uses a word that sounds like another word but that has a very different meaning | 67 | |
| 10489494053 | metaphor | implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it | 68 | |
| 10489494054 | metonymy | substitution of one word for another which it suggest | 69 | |
| 10489494055 | monosyndeton | stylistic device in which one coordinating conjunction is used in succession to achieve effect | 70 | |
| 10489494056 | motif | recurring idea in a piece of literature | 71 | |
| 10489494057 | neologism | a new word or expression or a new meaning of a word | 72 | |
| 10489494058 | onomatopoeia | use the words to imitate natural sounds, accommodation of sound to sense | 73 | |
| 10489494059 | oxymoron | apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another | 74 | |
| 10489494060 | paradox | assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it | 75 | |
| 10489494061 | parallelism | sentence construction which place is equal grammatical constructions near each other or repeats identical grammatical patterns | 76 | |
| 10489494062 | paraprosdokian | surprise or unexpected ending of a phrase or series | 77 | |
| 10489494063 | parentheses | a pair of marks () that are used around a word, phrase, sentence, or number -- usually plural | 78 | |
| 10489494064 | parody | exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes | 79 | |
| 10489494065 | paronomasia | use of similar-sounding words, often etymological wordplay | 80 | |
| 10489494066 | pathetic fallacy | the attribution of human feelings and things or animals | 81 | |
| 10489494067 | pathos | a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness | 82 | |
| 10489494068 | pedantic | adjectives that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is scholarly, academic or bookish | 83 | |
| 10489494069 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning and a main clause at the end | 84 | |
| 10489494070 | periphrasis | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name, shorthand | 85 | |
| 10489494071 | pleonasm | use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching in thought | 86 | |
| 10489494072 | polemic | a strong written or spoken attack against someone else's opinions, beliefs, practices, etc. | 87 | |
| 10489494073 | polyptoton | repeating a word, but in different form, using a cognate of a given word in close proximity | 88 | |
| 10489494074 | polysyndeton | implying many conjunctions between clauses, often slaving the tempo or rhythm | 89 | |
| 10489494075 | portmanteau | a word blending the sounds and combining the meaning of two others, ie motel or brunch | 90 | |
| 10489494076 | praeteritio | pretended omission for rhetorical effect | 91 | |
| 10489494077 | prolepsis | the anticipation, and adjectives or nouns, of the result of the action of a verb, also the positioning of a relative clause before its antecedent | 92 | |
| 10489494078 | rhetorical question | a question that you ask without expecting an answer | 93 | |
| 10489494079 | satire | a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. | 94 | |
| 10489494080 | simile | and explicit comparison between two things using like or as | 95 | |
| 10489494081 | situational irony | literary device that you can easily identify and works, occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen and what actually happens | 96 | |
| 10489494082 | socratic irony | the pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can be challenged | 97 | |
| 10489494083 | subtext | and underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or a conversation | 98 | |
| 10489494084 | syllepsis | use of a word with two others, with each of which it is understood differently | 99 | |
| 10489494085 | syllogism | a deductive system of formal logic. presents to premises that lead to a sound conclusion | 100 | |
| 10489494086 | synchysis | interlocked word order | 101 | |
| 10489494087 | synecdoche | understanding one thing with another, the use of a part for the whole, or whole for the part | 102 | |
| 10489494088 | synesis | agreement of words according to logic and not by grammatical form | 103 | |
| 10489494089 | synesthesia | production of a sense of impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulating of another sense or part of body | 104 | |
| 10489494090 | tautology | repetition of an idea and a different word phrase or sentence | 105 | |
| 10489494091 | telos | and ultimate object or aim | 106 | |
| 10489494092 | tenor | the subject of a metaphor to which the subjects ascribed | 107 | |
| 10489494093 | vehicle | object whose attributes are borrowed | 108 | |
| 10489494094 | trope | word phrase or image used in a new and different way in order to create an artistic effect | 109 | |
| 10489494095 | understatement | ironic minimizing of fact, understatement present something as less significant than it is | 110 | |
| 10489494096 | verbal irony | where is express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean | 111 | |
| 10489494097 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 112 | |
| 10489494098 | zeugma | two different words linked to a verb or adjectives which is strictly appropriate to only one of them | 113 |
