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| 6633861352 | Ubiquitous | everywhere at the same time; simultaneous | 0 | |
| 6633867398 | Pernicious | wicked, deadly, very destructive | 1 | |
| 6633869599 | Utopian | perfect society, ideal place | 2 | |
| 6633876718 | Multifaceted | many sides, many views | 3 | |
| 6633878084 | Impregnable | able to resist attack | 4 | |
| 6633886442 | Edification | improvement morally | 5 | |
| 6633891687 | Pejoratively | tend to make worse, disparage | 6 | |
| 6633893765 | Pragmatism | concerned with practical results | 7 | |
| 6633897768 | Abject | miserable, hopelessness, very bad | 8 | |
| 6633902647 | Inanities | lack of sense and ideas, silliness, folly, vacuity, senselessness | 9 | |
| 6633913156 | Logical Fallacy | a mistake in reasoning | 10 | |
| 6633918654 | Lyrical | songlike, characterized by emotions, subjectivity and imagination | 11 | |
| 6633936516 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another (my love is a fragile flower) | 12 | |
| 6633943194 | metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch. | 13 | |
| 6633994091 | Mode | the method or form of a literary work; the manner in which a work of literature is written | 14 | |
| 6634011447 | mood | similar to tone; the primary emotional attitude of a work. | 15 | |
| 6634030493 | moral | the lesson drawn from a fictional or nonfictional story | 16 | |
| 6634487698 | Motif | Main theme or subject of a work that is elaborated on in the development of the piece; a repeated pattern or idea | 17 | |
| 6634509919 | Narration | The telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | 18 | |
| 6634518463 | Negative-Positive | Sentence that begins by stating what is NOT true, then by ending by stating what is true. | 19 | |
| 6634527921 | Non-sequitur | Latin for "it does not follow." When one statement isn't logically connected to another | 20 | |
| 6634534311 | Objectivity | An impersonal presentation of events and characters; writers attempt to remove hisself/herself from any subjective, personal involvement in a story | 21 | |
| 6634574153 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss" "buzz" "slam" "boom" | 22 | |
| 6634590991 | Oversimplification | When a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument | 23 | |
| 6634603690 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool" "bitter-sweet" "pretty ugly" "jumbo shrimp" "cold fire" | 24 | |
| 6634618596 | Pacing | The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 25 | |
| 6634626587 | Parable | A short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than allegory | 26 | |
| 6634636162 | Paradox | A statement that seems to contradict itself but turns out to have a rational meaning | 27 | |
| 6634653737 | Parallelism | The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. "We shall fight... We shall fight... We shall fight..." | 28 | |
| 6634671383 | Parody | A work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating or exaggerating its elements. Can be mocking or humorous. | 29 | |
| 6634679472 | Pathos | The aspects of a literary work that elicit sorrow or pity from the audience; an appeal to emotion | 30 | |
| 6635840234 | Pedantic | a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing; scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant. | 31 | |
| 6635853984 | Personification | the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object | 32 | |
| 6635864500 | Persuasion | a form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion. | 33 | |
| 6635903623 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is presented; | 34 |
