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| 14733202825 | Analogy | comparison between two parallel cases | 0 | |
| 14733206929 | Anecdotal Narration | shorty, simple narrative story or incident | 1 | |
| 14733216841 | Metaphor | comparison not using like or as | 2 | |
| 14733219480 | Simile | comparing two things using like or as | 3 | |
| 14733226743 | Onomatopoeia | A word that sounds like what it means | 4 | |
| 14733230383 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 5 | |
| 14733233686 | Oxymoron | 2 words of opposite meaning are put together for intentional effect | 6 | |
| 14733241881 | Understatement | making something seem less important than it is | 7 | |
| 14733245559 | Diction | word choice | 8 | |
| 14733247511 | Irony | saying one thing and meaning another | 9 | |
| 14733258074 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 10 | |
| 14733260779 | Pun | Words that have the same sound but 2 different meanings | 11 | |
| 14733295660 | Litotes | form of understatement which uses a negative to convey the opposite meaning | 12 | |
| 14733302791 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 13 | |
| 14733312762 | Paradox | statement that seems self-contradictory | 14 | |
| 14733316009 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 15 | |
| 14733318424 | Euphemism | pleasant way to say something inappropriate or uncomfortable | 16 | |
| 14744403371 | Parrallelism | repetition of grammatical structure | 17 | |
| 14744407903 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 18 | |
| 14744411615 | Climax | sentences/words/phrases are arranged in ascending order of importance | 19 | |
| 14748127038 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of the sentence that occurred at the beginning | 20 | |
| 14748135347 | Antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting images | 21 | |
| 14748135348 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phase at the beginning of 2 or more sentences in a row | 22 | |
| 14748138866 | Alliteration | repetition of the same sound | 23 | |
| 14748141007 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds with words close together | 24 | |
| 14748144121 | Consonance | repetitive sound within 2 or more words close together | 25 | |
| 14748147710 | Juxtaposition | placement of 2 things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 26 | |
| 14748150347 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 27 | |
| 14748152837 | Syntax | grammatical arrangement of words | 28 | |
| 14748153966 | Parody | humor during a serious piece of writing | 29 | |
| 14748162194 | Satire | using humor to criticize human flaws | 30 | |
| 14748166952 | Epistle | a long, formal, instructive letter | 31 | |
| 14748168919 | Epigram | short poem with a clever twist at the end | 32 | |
| 14748170609 | Elegy | sad poem written in response to the death of someone | 33 | |
| 14748173196 | Zeugma | use of a word to modify 2 or more words | 34 | |
| 14748181652 | Polarity | having 2 opposite tendencies | 35 | |
| 14748190914 | Epiphany | character's sudden insight into a conflict situation | 36 | |
| 14748299712 | Ethos | the use of credibility and trust | 37 | |
| 14748357564 | pathos | writer appeals to readers emotions | 38 | |
| 14748361222 | logos | writer tries to persuade the audience using statistics, facts, and reasons | 39 | |
| 14748368284 | rhetoric | finding ways to persuade an audience | 40 | |
| 14748370885 | colloquialism | ordinary or familiar type of conversation | 41 | |
| 14748375232 | cliche | phrase/idea thats overused and has lost its meaning | 42 | |
| 14748378848 | inductive reasoning | uses patterns to come to a conclusion | 43 | |
| 14748381010 | deductive reasoning | uses facts, rules, definitions to come to a conclusion | 44 | |
| 14748385511 | loose sentnce | basic sentence with details added at the end of the basic sentence | 45 | |
| 14748390745 | periodic sentence | sentence where added details are either before or in the middle of a basic sentence | 46 | |
| 14748398283 | rhetorical questions | posed to make a point, not to be answered | 47 | |
| 14748402588 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 48 | |
| 14748412029 | antecedent | word/noun that the pronoun replaces | 49 | |
| 14748495846 | pedantic | someone who's concerned with the details of the subject , over shows their knowledge | 50 | |
| 14748501517 | sarcasm | generally bitter comment that is ironically worded | 51 | |
| 14748503636 | didactic literature | purpose is to teach/instruct formal and teach about morality | 52 | |
| 14748510773 | point of view(perspective) | perspective from which a story is told | 53 | |
| 14748511952 | persona | "mask". the face/character that a speaker shows to his/her audience | 54 | |
| 14748516959 | genre | major category into which a literary work fits | 55 | |
| 14748519242 | style | choice in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes | 56 | |
| 14748524562 | synecdoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 57 | |
| 14748528673 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 58 | |
| 14748531112 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions | 59 |
