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| 9717002996 | Apollonian | relating to the rational, ordered, and self-disciplined aspects of human nature | 0 | |
| 9717012126 | Archaic language | old-fashioned. | 1 | |
| 9717034223 | Bowdlerize | remove material that is considered improper or offensive from a text, makig it weaker or less effective. | 2 | |
| 9717044931 | Carpe Diem | used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future | 3 | |
| 9717125868 | Catharsis | The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions at the end of a piece | 4 | |
| 9717181057 | Cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful dismissal of important matters | 5 | |
| 9717208473 | didactic | intended to teach | 6 | |
| 9717394433 | Dionysian | realting to sensual, spontaneous, and emotional aspects of human nature | 7 | |
| 9717402195 | Dissonance | tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements | 8 | |
| 9717412743 | Eponym | a person after whom a discovery, invention, place is named or thought to be named | 9 | |
| 9717435830 | Microcosm | a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristic qualities or features of something much larger | 10 | |
| 9717446792 | Mimesis | representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature | 11 | |
| 9717453245 | Pantheism | a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or universe is a manifestation of God. Reality is identical to divinity | 12 | |
| 9717479202 | Pedantic | excessively concerned with minor details or rules; oversrupulous | 13 | |
| 9717500970 | Primitivism | Belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature | 14 | |
| 9717509677 | Semantics | Meaning of a word, phrase, or text | 15 | |
| 9717514164 | Aestheticism | the approuch to art exemplified by the aesthetic movement | 16 | |
| 9717530106 | Miracle play | A mystery play | 17 | |
| 9717532967 | Mock epic | long poem narrating deed or adventures | 18 | |
| 9717541807 | Paean | song of praise or triumph | 19 | |
| 9717552411 | beat generation | movement of young people in 50s and 60s who rejected conventional society | 20 | |
| 9731088277 | Gothic literature | style of writing characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements | 21 | |
| 9731098850 | Hedonism | the persuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence; pleasure is the highest aim of life | 22 | |
| 9731122138 | Horatian satire | Donoting an ode of several stanzas each with the same metrical pattern | 23 | |
| 9731140876 | Lampoon | Criticize someone using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm | 24 | |
| 9731145381 | Lexicon | Vocabulary of a person, langage, or branch of knowledge | 25 | |
| 9731157124 | Metaphysical poetry | highly intellectualized marked by bold and ingenious conceits, imagery, complex and subtle thought, paradox, and often harshness or rigidity of expression | 26 | |
| 9731179111 | Conceit | fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor | 27 | |
| 9731189396 | Farce | comic dramatic work using baffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | 28 | |
| 9731199543 | Homily | Tedious moralizing piece | 29 | |
| 9731208538 | Dirge | a mournful lament | 30 | |
| 9731216395 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 31 | |
| 9731221758 | Burlesque | absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something; a parody | 32 | |
| 9731232398 | Bildungsroman | novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 33 | |
| 9731242122 | Aubade | a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning | 34 | |
| 9731275923 | Travelogue | book about places visited by or experiences of a traveller | 35 | |
| 9731304508 | Paean | a creative work expressing enthusiastic praise | 36 | |
| 9731313390 | Tract | typically religious literary work, often a brief pamphlet | 37 | |
| 9731328080 | Parataxis | Placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination. | 38 | |
| 9731336432 | palindrome | a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards | 39 | |
| 9731350708 | Portmanteau | a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others | 40 | |
| 9731368041 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 41 | |
| 9731384441 | Sentential | relating to a sentence | 42 | |
| 9731386928 | Invective | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language | 43 | |
| 9731392768 | Synaesthesia | writing that presents ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell, and touch at a given time | 44 | |
| 9731442813 | Dionysian | based on certain features of ancient Greek mythology | 45 | |
| 9731464721 | Hypophora | figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question | 46 | |
| 9731476205 | Gustatory imagery | imagery related to the sense of taste | 47 | |
| 9731505454 | Regionalism | fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region. | 48 | |
| 9731537140 | Kenning | A compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning. | 49 | |
| 9742768340 | Bathos | Anticlimax created by an unintentional laps in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous | 50 | |
| 9742777994 | pedantry | excessive concern with minor details and rules | 51 | |
| 9742779852 | Meiosis | intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is. | 52 | |
| 9742787028 | Misnomer | A wrong or inaccurate use of a name | 53 | |
| 9742797341 | Insipid language | lacking vigor or interest | 54 | |
| 9742818467 | Symploce | First and last word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence are repeated in one or more successive clauses | 55 | |
| 9742827812 | Bombast | high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people | 56 | |
| 9742838958 | Proverb | a short saying stating a general truth or piece of advice | 57 | |
| 9742846564 | Comma splice | an instance of using a comma to link two independent clauses | 58 | |
| 9742851621 | The Lost Generation | group of American writers who came of age during WW1 and established reputations in 1920s. | 59 | |
| 9742861328 | Memoir | historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources | 60 | |
| 9742866491 | loose sentence | set of words that is complete in itself | 61 | |
| 9742888362 | Sociological novel | genre of novel that shows the influence of economic and social conditions on characters and events with an eye towards social reform | 62 | |
| 9742912181 | Subject complement | adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb | 63 | |
| 9742925650 | Existentialism | movement in philosophy and literature that emphasizes indivuidual existence, freedom and choice | 64 | |
| 9742962198 | Juvenalian satire | bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions that is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and pessismism. | 65 | |
| 9742971073 | conduplicatio | figure of repetition in which the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is repeated at or near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases | 66 | |
| 9742985033 | Socratic irony | when you pretend to be ignorant to expose the ignorance or inconsistency of someone else | 67 | |
| 9742998475 | Rhetorical shift | a change or movement in a piece from one point or idea to another Definition | 68 | |
| 9743007008 | False Dilemma | logical fallacy when one choice is false and one is true-or one is acceptable and the other is not | 69 | |
| 9743017389 | Thesis | short statement that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay, etc. | 70 | |
| 9743021147 | Epithet | application of a word or phrase to someone that descrives that person's attributes or qualities. | 71 | |
| 9743031661 | Straw man | someone argues that a person holds a view that is actually not what the person believes, but a distorted version. | 72 | |
| 9743036379 | Courtly love | conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry | 73 | |
| 9743041105 | Antanagoge | figure in rhetoric, in which, not being able to answer the accusation of an adversary, a person instead makes a counter-allegation or counteracting an opponent's proposal with an opposing proposition in one's own speech or writing. | 74 | |
| 9774209085 | Pertinacity | Sticking with something, no matter what | 75 | |
| 9774451958 | Syllogism | Deductive scheme of a formal argument with a major and minor premise and conclusion | 76 | |
| 9774519253 | Procatalepsis | rhetorical figure by which an opponent's objections are anticipated and answered | 77 | |
| 9774535861 | Metabasis | inference or connection based on analogy | 78 | |
| 9774550667 | Rhetorical mode | major kinds of language-based communication: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation | 79 | |
| 9774573345 | Rhetorical purpose | goal a literary work is meant to achieve in terms of influencing people | 80 | |
| 9774592605 | Begging the question | writer assumes the statement under examination to be true. Uses a premise to support itself | 81 | |
| 9774612022 | Ad hominem | response to a person's argment by attacking the preson's character rather than the logic or content of the argument | 82 | |
| 9774648593 | Didactic | intended to teach | 83 | |
| 9774653656 | Analogy | device that creates a rleationship between two ideas based on parallels or connections. | 84 | |
| 9774669684 | Alliteration | occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 85 | |
| 9774680926 | Tautology | saying of the same thing twice over in different words | 86 | |
| 9774700448 | Jargon | special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand | 87 | |
| 9774718713 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 88 | |
| 9774730771 | Verisimilitude | a literary text is believable | 89 | |
| 9774747883 | Leitmotif | recurrent theme through the pieve, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation | 90 | |
| 9774764409 | Pun | joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings | 91 | |
| 9774780777 | Resources of language | general phrase for lingusitic devices or techniques that a writer can use | 92 | |
| 9774794813 | Satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule | 93 | |
| 9774812928 | Assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 94 | |
| 9791203096 | hypostatization | to treat or regard a concept or idea as reality | 95 | |
| 9807419093 | Malapropism | mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect | 96 | |
| 9807435281 | Hyperbaton | inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis | 97 | |
| 9807450873 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 98 | |
| 9807464617 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 99 | |
| 9807472015 | Understatement | presentation of something as being smaller or less good or important than it really is | 100 | |
| 9807482680 | Olfactory imagery | words that pertain to the sense of smell | 101 | |
| 9807502819 | Wit | elements designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused | 102 | |
| 9807514281 | Allusion | A reference to something outside of the work of literature, such as an event, person, or work | 103 | |
| 9807527600 | Mood | element that evokes certain feelings or vibes through words and descriptions. Typically the emotional atmoshphere of the piece | 104 | |
| 9807545812 | Oxymoron | figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 105 | |
| 9807560330 | Expose' | A piece that reveals the truth about a sitiuation or person, especially something involving shocking facts | 106 | |
| 9807585844 | Predicate nominative | a word in the nominative case that completes a copulative verb, such as son in the sentence Charlie is my son. | 107 | |
| 9807603656 | Fable | short story, typically with animals as characters, or supernatural, conveying a moral | 108 | |
| 9807630518 | Feminism | piece advocating for women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes | 109 | |
| 9807660563 | Melodrama | sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions | 110 | |
| 9807671340 | Active voice | form or set of forms of a verb in which the subject is typically the person or thing perfomring the action and which can take a direct object | 111 | |
| 9807686488 | Apposition | Relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent. | 112 | |
| 9807704030 | Dangling participle | participle intended to modify a noun which is not actually present in the text | 113 | |
| 9807720875 | Gerund | verb form which functions as a noun (asking in 'do you mind my asking you?') | 114 | |
| 9807736534 | Imperative sentences | gives instructions or advice | 115 | |
| 9807747589 | infinitive | basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense | 116 | |
| 9807755246 | Epistolary | in the form of letters | 117 | |
| 9807768298 | Loose sentence | begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause | 118 | |
| 9807798372 | misplaced modifier | word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies/describes | 119 | |
| 9807810520 | Parenthesis | word or phrase inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage which is grammatically complete without it, marked off by brackets, dashes, or commas | 120 | |
| 9807827264 | Participle | word formed from a verb and used as an adjective or noun. | 121 | |
| 9807841531 | Participle phrase | phrase that has a particple pls modifiers, objects, and/or complements | 122 | |
| 9807855211 | Passive voice | form or set of forms of a verb in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (ex: they were killed) | 123 | |
| 9807869435 | Periodic sentence | has the main clause or predicate at the end for emphasis. | 124 | |
| 9807880927 | Sentence structure | How a sentence is grammatically arranged; including where the noun and verb fall within an individual sentence | 125 | |
| 9807909198 | Subordinate clause | clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause | 126 | |
| 9807960271 | Anecdote | short amusing or interesting story, often propesed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh | 127 | |
| 9807977573 | Rhetoric | effective or persuasive writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques | 128 | |
| 9807992325 | Biased sample | Make a claim about something based on a sample that is erroneous or somehow not representative of the whole | 129 | |
| 9808019368 | Rhetorical device | technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading | 130 | |
| 9808036879 | Rhetorical question | question that not be expecting an answer. Could be one that has an obvious answer but it makes a point, persuades, or is for literary effect | 131 | |
| 9808060490 | Detail | fact or significant term that makes up a larger picture or story | 132 | |
| 9834375021 | Loaded Words | have strong emotional implications and involve strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning. | 133 | |
| 9834383755 | Slippery Slope | a fallacy that suggests taking a minor action will lead to major and often ludicrous sonsequences | 134 | |
| 9834395180 | Determinist | believes that acts of the will, occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are casually determined by preceding events or natura laws. | 135 | |
| 9834412374 | Ambiguity | multiple meanings a literary work may convey, mostly two meanings that are incompatible | 136 | |
| 9834428391 | Antecedent | What goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. | 137 | |
| 9834434571 | Soliloquy | speech where a character is alone and speaks their thoughts aloud. | 138 | |
| 9834440574 | Irony | Expression of a meaning by usig language that usually means the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 139 | |
| 9834449693 | Naturalism | literary genre based on the idea that environment determines and governs human character | 140 | |
| 9834471355 | Denotation | dictionary meaning of a word | 141 | |
| 9834475305 | Allegory | story in which people, things, and events have another meaning | 142 | |
| 9834479986 | Imagery | parts of a literary work that evoke the senses; images | 143 | |
| 9834482488 | Digression | use of material unrelated to the subject | 144 | |
| 9834489671 | Ode | A poem that is usually praising something; often addressed to the subject of the praise | 145 | |
| 9834501072 | Cosmic irony | the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations | 146 | |
| 9834506956 | Implied metaphor | type of metaphor that compares two unlike things, but does it without mentioning one of them; instead describing it in some way. | 147 | |
| 9834517645 | Foreshadowing | The author hints at something that is going to happen later in the piece | 148 | |
| 9835194522 | Polysyndeton | Repetition of conjunctions | 149 |
