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| 4755027250 | Allegory | A story that demonstrates multiple levels of meaning | 0 | |
| 4755027251 | Alliteration | Repetition of constant sounds | 1 | |
| 4755027252 | Allusion | Literary, historical, or mythological reference | 2 | |
| 4755027253 | Anaphora | Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of clauses | 3 | |
| 4755027254 | Antithesis | Two sharply contrasting ideas that a are balanced | 4 | |
| 4755027255 | Aphorism | A short statement to illustrate a point | 5 | |
| 4755027256 | Apostrophe | Addressing an inanimate object | 6 | |
| 4755027257 | Appeals to authority, emotion, logic | Arguments used to persuade | 7 | |
| 4755027258 | Assonance | Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 8 | |
| 4755027259 | Asyndenton | Sentence structure where conjunctions are left out | 9 | |
| 4755027260 | Attitude | Feeling expressed by tone | 10 | |
| 4755027261 | Begging the question | When asking a direct question answering with another question | 11 | |
| 4755027262 | Canon | That which has been accepted as authentic | 12 | |
| 4755027263 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech where the order is reverse | 13 | |
| 4755027264 | Claim | Assertion of something as fact | 14 | |
| 4755027265 | Colloquial | Diction of the common folk | 15 | |
| 4755027266 | Comparison and contrast | Mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared or/and contrasted | 16 | |
| 4755027267 | Conceit | A comparison of two unlikely things throughout a whole work of literature | 17 | |
| 4755027268 | Connotation | Feeling you get from a word | 18 | |
| 4755027269 | Consonance | Repetition of constants with different vowel sounds | 19 | |
| 4755027270 | Convention | Accepted manner, model or tradition | 20 | |
| 4755027271 | Critique | An assessment or analysis of a work | 21 | |
| 4755027272 | Deduction | Specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general conclusions | 22 | |
| 4755027273 | Dialect | Language and speech characteristics of a specific area | 23 | |
| 4755027274 | Diction | Specific word choice of an author used to persuade | 24 | |
| 4755027275 | Didactic | Writing or speech with a instructive purpose | 25 | |
| 4755027276 | Elegy | A poem of prose that laments the death of someone | 26 | |
| 4755027277 | Epistrophe | The repetition of phrase at the end of a sentence | 27 | |
| 4755027278 | Epitaph | The praise of a dead person, usually on a gravestone | 28 | |
| 4755027279 | Ethos | The appeal to credibility | 29 | |
| 4755027280 | Euglogy | A positive speech about a dead person, usually given at a funeral | 30 | |
| 4755027281 | Euphemism | A nice way of expressing unpleasant information | 31 | |
| 4755027282 | Exposition | Writing that explains | 32 | |
| 4755027283 | Extended metaphor | A series of comparisons within a writing | 33 | |
| 4755027284 | Figurative language | Language with levels of menaing | 34 | |
| 4755027285 | Flashback | A look back to an earlier event | 35 | |
| 4755027286 | Genre | A type or class of literature | 36 | |
| 4755027287 | Homily | Sermon | 37 | |
| 4755027288 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration | 38 | |
| 4755027289 | Imagery | Painting a picture with words | 39 | |
| 4755027290 | Induction | Looking at specific things to draw a general conclusion | 40 | |
| 4755027291 | Inference | Coming to a conclusion by considering facts | 41 | |
| 4755027292 | Verbal irony | Sarcasm; saying one thing but meaning the opposite | 42 | |
| 4755027293 | Situational irony | When the events are the opposite of what is expected | 43 | |
| 4755027294 | Dramatic irony | When we know something the main characters don't | 44 | |
| 4755027295 | Isocolon | Parallel structure where the elements are similar in grammar and length | 45 | |
| 4755027296 | Jargon | Specialized or technical language of a specific group | 46 | |
| 4755027297 | Juxtaposition | Talking about two things to create an affect | 47 | |
| 4755027298 | Litote | Figure of speech that emphasizes subject by understatement | 48 | |
| 4755027299 | Loose sentence | A long sentence that starts with a main clause followed by several dependent clauses, run on sentences | 49 | |
| 4755027300 | Metaphor | A comparison not using like or as | 50 | |
| 4755027301 | Metonymy | A feature used to designate something | 51 | |
| 4755027302 | Mode of discourse | The way something is said | 52 | |
| 4755027303 | Mood | The feeling a reader gets from a work | 53 | |
| 4755027304 | Narrative | Story | 54 | |
| 4755027305 | Onomatopoeia | A word that makes the sound it is | 55 | |
| 4755027306 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that has two contradictory terms | 56 | |
| 4755027307 | Paradox | A statements that seems contradictory but is probably true | 57 | |
| 4755027308 | Parallel structure | Use of similar forms in writing | 58 | |
| 4755027309 | Pathos | Persuasion using emotion | 59 | |
| 4755027310 | Periodic sentence | A long sentence where the main clause is at the end | 60 | |
| 4755027311 | Personification | Giving human features to something that isn't human | 61 | |
| 4755027312 | Point of veiw | Relation of narrator and subject | 62 | |
| 4755027313 | Prose | Ordinary writing not poetry | 63 | |
| 4755027314 | Realism | Writing realistically | 64 | |
| 4755027315 | Rebuttal | An argument technique where opposing arguments are countered | 65 | |
| 4755027316 | Rhetoric | The art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking | 66 | |
| 4755027317 | Rhetorical question | A question asked but expects no answer | 67 | |
| 4755027318 | Sarcasm | Apparent praise that is actually critical | 68 | |
| 4757874807 | Satire | A literary work that shows human failings with ridicule | 69 | |
| 4757874808 | Simile | Comparison using like or as | 70 | |
| 4757874809 | Style | The manner of expression that shows the authors writing style | 71 | |
| 4757874810 | Symbolism | Use of a thing that represents something else | 72 | |
| 4757874811 | Synecdoche | A part represents a whole | 73 | |
| 4757874812 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 74 | |
| 4757874813 | Theme | A lesson or message that an author tries to convey | 75 | |
| 4757874814 | Tone | What the author wants you to feel for a work | 76 | |
| 4757874815 | Voice | The source of words from the story | 77 | |
| 4757874816 | Zeugma | A verb or adjective is applied to two or more nouns | 78 |
