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| 7675651668 | Diction | Word Choice |  | 0 |
| 7675651669 | Imagery | Drawing a word picture |  | 1 |
| 7675651670 | Tone | The way an author seems to want the audience to feel--use adjectives |  | 2 |
| 7675651671 | Figurative Language | Not literal |  | 3 |
| 7675653717 | Shift | A change |  | 4 |
| 7675653718 | Detail | Description, examples, specific elements |  | 5 |
| 7675653719 | Syntax | Sentence construction |  | 6 |
| 7675653720 | Connotation | Nuanced/hidden message words carry |  | 7 |
| 7675656167 | Point of View | Perspective |  | 8 |
| 7675656168 | Pacing | Rate at which author moves the plot and narrative |  | 9 |
| 8539173612 | Aphorism | Short, often cliche piece of advice |  | 10 |
| 8539175067 | Analogy | A comparison between two sets |  | 11 |
| 8539176483 | Anaphora | Repeated words at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases |  | 12 |
| 8539176485 | Anecdote | A short, illustrative story |  | 13 |
| 8539225789 | Antithesis | A statement and its opposite |  | 14 |
| 8539268444 | Asyndeton | A list of things with commas between them |  | 15 |
| 8539336626 | Cacophony | Harsh sounding words or noise |  | 16 |
| 8563853168 | Chiasmus | A phrase or clause and its reverse immediately afterwards |  | 17 |
| 8563911912 | Colloquialism | Ordinary, informal speech |  | 18 |
| 8563949719 | Conceit | A drawn-out comparison between two things that wouldn't normally be compared |  | 19 |
| 8564025091 | Cumulative sentence | A sentence that begins with a simple sentence and adds elaborative elements |  | 20 |
| 8564041991 | Denotation | The literal, dictionary definition of a word |  | 21 |
| 8564126030 | Didactic | An adjective for a text that is moralistic in its nature |  | 22 |
| 8694889039 | Ellipsis | The three dots that shorten a quotation |  | 23 |
| 8694889587 | Epiphany | A sudden revelation |  | 24 |
| 8694890892 | Ethos | Credibility and trustworthiness |  | 25 |
| 8694890893 | Euphemism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing |  | 26 |
| 8694896642 | Genre | A type/category |  | 27 |
| 8694897048 | Homily | A short sermon |  | 28 |
| 8694897757 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement |  | 29 |
| 8694898775 | Invective | Rude, harsh, or insulting language |  | 30 |
| 8694900753 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the characters do not |  | 31 |
| 8694901815 | Situational irony | Normal, daily irony |  | 32 |
| 8694903493 | Satire | A written form where the author mocks society in order to make a change |  | 33 |
| 8694904090 | Verbal irony | Sarcasm |  | 34 |
| 8902945325 | Litotes | An understatement with a negative construction |  | 35 |
| 8902945326 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 36 |
| 8902945327 | Metonymy | When you substitute a word for something that is related |  | 37 |
| 8902945328 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea |  | 38 |
| 8902947472 | Non sequitur | A statement or sentence that does not logically follow the previous ones |  | 39 |
| 8902947473 | Onomatopoeia | A word that represents a sound |  | 40 |
| 8902947474 | Oxymoron | Two words in a term that are opposites |  | 41 |
| 8902947475 | Parallelism | Sentence construction where all parts of the sentence are grammatically identical |  | 42 |
| 8902947476 | Parody | A type of satire that imitates something |  | 43 |
| 8902948211 | Paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth |  | 44 |
| 8902948212 | Pedantic | Dull, dry, overly detailed |  | 45 |
| 8953443048 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. |  | 46 |
| 8953455561 | Polysyndeton | A series of conjunctions |  | 47 |
| 8953459710 | Simile | A comparison with the use of like or as |  | 48 |
| 8978552108 | Syllepsis/Zuegma | Using a single verb to defer to two different objects in a way that gives it multiple meaning | 49 | |
| 8978565926 | Syllogism | Deductive reasoning with a logical progression consisting of premises and a conclusion |  | 50 |
| 8978667576 | Symbol | NOT a metaphor |  | 51 |
| 8978699359 | Synecdoche | A subset of metonymy in which a part is used for the whole |  | 52 |
| 8978735577 | Style | A way of writing that is unique and recognizable |  | 53 |
| 8978750391 | Tautology | Repetition of an idea using different words |  | 54 |
| 8978755082 | Understatement | Diminishes a concept or idea, often used for comedic effect |  | 55 |
