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| 7189290810 | allegory | a story in which everything is a symbol | 0 | |
| 7189290813 | ambiguity | a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation | 1 | |
| 7189290904 | anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | 2 | |
| 7189290818 | aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 3 | |
| 7189290819 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 4 | |
| 7189290823 | asyndeton | a list without conjunctions example: "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe" (JFK's inaugural address) | 5 | |
| 7189290824 | chiasmus (kee-as-mus) | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | 6 | |
| 7189290840 | eulogy | a formal speech praising a person who has died | 7 | |
| 7189290841 | euphemism | a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term E.g. He "passed away" instead of "died." | 8 | |
| 7189290851 | invective | a strong denunciation or condemnation; abusive language | 9 | |
| 7189290866 | parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 10 | |
| 7189371910 | polysyndeton | a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 11 | |
| 7189290878 | satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 12 | |
| 7189290892 | voice | can be active or passive active - the subject does the action; e.g. Joe threw the ball. passive - something is done to the subject. e.g. The ball was thrown to Bill. | 13 | |
| 7189290893 | zeugma | a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. For example: "She broke his car and his heart." | 14 |
