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| 9552180488 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |  | 0 |
| 9552180489 | Dramatic Irony | is a form of irony that is expressed through a work's structure: an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters', and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different often contradictory |  | 1 |
| 9552183363 | Situational Irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. |  | 2 |
| 9552184791 | Verbal Irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning |  | 3 |
| 9552184792 | Interjection | an abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption. |  | 4 |
| 9552188323 | Infinitive | the basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense | 5 | |
| 9552192339 | Paradox | is a statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow |  | 6 |
| 9552197613 | Anachronism | an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece |  | 7 |
| 9552198593 | Euphemism | refers to polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant |  | 8 |
| 9552198594 | Invective | denotes speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution. It involves the use of abusive and negative use of language |  | 9 |
| 9552203263 | Colloquialism | is the use of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing |  | 10 |
| 9552205440 | Ambiguity | the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness |  | 11 |
| 9552207585 | Extended Anaolgy | also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is an author's exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds throughout a poem or story | 12 |
