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| 5053866567 | Allegory | A literary work that occurs on 2 levels: the literal and symbolic. Thus, actions, characters, settings, and objects have symbolic, abstract meaning. | 0 | |
| 5053881605 | Anecdote | A brief narrative or a retelling of a story or event often based on the speakers own experience. | 1 | |
| 5053890794 | Diatribe | A bitter attack on something or someone. It differs from a polemic because it is completely against the subject of itself. A polemic is meant to create controversy. | 2 | |
| 5053907072 | Elegy | A thoughtful poem lamenting someone's death. | 3 | |
| 5053909659 | Eulogy | A speech or writing in praise of a person or thing,especially in honor of a deceased person. | 4 | |
| 5053921343 | Homily/Sermon | A religious speech meant to be spoken out loud and containing a moral or didactic lesson. | 5 | |
| 5053926419 | Narrative | Any type of writing that is concerned with relating an event or a series of events. | 6 | |
| 5053932374 | Parody | A literary work that imitates either style or the subject manner of an author for the purpose of ridicule, criticism, or tribute. | 7 | |
| 5053947422 | Panegyric | A statement of high praise. | 8 | |
| 5053949080 | Polemic | A passionate or strongly worded controversial argument against something or someone Meant to create controversy. | 9 | |
| 5053955479 | Sarcasm | Involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. When well done, it can be witty and insightful' when poorly done, it's simply cruel. | 10 | |
| 5053994851 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 11 | |
| 5054004518 | Horation Satire | This playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild and light-hearted humor. It directs wit, exaggeration and self-depicting humor toward what it identifies as folly, rather than evil. It has a sympathetic tone is common in modern society. | 12 | |
| 5054029815 | Juvenalian Satire | This addresses social evil through scorn, outrage and savage ridicule. This form is pessimistic characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective with less emphasis on humor. | 13 | |
| 5054054807 | Abstract | A word that signifies a general concept, an idea, or a condition that is intangible. | 14 | |
| 5054060549 | Concrete | A word that signifies what is tangible,something we can know with one or more of our 5 senses. Clarity is #1 rule of effective communication. | 15 | |
| 5054073309 | Connotation | The implied or understood meaning of a word. | 16 | |
| 5054074761 | Denotation | The literal or dictionary definition of a word. | 17 | |
| 5054077438 | Colloquialism | Words and phrases used in casual conversation and given new, informal meanings, often associated with particular regions in the country. | 18 | |
| 5054088030 | Jargon | The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group. Connotatively, it has come to mean pretentious, wordy and almost meaningless language. | 19 | |
| 5054105987 | Neologism | A recently invented phrase or word. They are sometimes used to make an author seem up to date or trendy. | 20 | |
| 5054110453 | Archaism | An old-fashioned word or expression that has passed out of usage. Modern authors use it to suggest an earlier time period or style. | 21 | |
| 5054121936 | Anaphora | The exact repetition of the first few words or phrases at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses. | 22 | |
| 5054130232 | Antithesis | The contrast of ideas by means of the parallel arrangement of words, phrases or clauses. | 23 | |
| 5054135714 | Aphorism | A concisely phrased statement of truth or opinion. | 24 | |
| 5054138326 | Asndeton | The listing of words, phrases, or clauses without the use of a typically occurring conjunction. | 25 | |
| 5064197548 | Polysyndeton | The use of a conjunction after each word, phrase, or clause in a list. | 26 | |
| 5064202134 | Ambiguity | The purposeful creation of a statement with more than one possible meaning. | 27 | |
| 5064209285 | Cataloguing | A fancy word for "listing" | 28 | |
| 5064211664 | Chiasmus | Two or more clauses related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; the clauses display inverted parallelism. | 29 | |
| 5064229128 | Inversion | A reversal of the usual order of words. | 30 | |
| 5064231915 | Juxtaposition | The placement of two items, often contrasting next to each other. | 31 | |
| 5064236543 | Inverted Sentence | A sentence where the predicate comes before the subject. | 32 | |
| 5064242984 | Loose Sentence | A sentence in which the main idea(which is also the main clause of the sentence) comes first and is followed by subordinate clauses and phrases that provide support for the main idea. | 33 | |
| 5064252084 | Periodic Sentence | A long and frequently involved sentence in which the main idea appears at the end. | 34 | |
| 5064257177 | Parallelism | Using the same pattern of words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence. | 35 | |
| 5064263627 | Rhetorical Question | A question to which no answer is expected. | 36 | |
| 5064265841 | Alliteration | The repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more words. | 37 | |
| 5064272050 | Allusion | An indirect reference to a historical event, literary work, or religious book. | 38 | |
| 5064277826 | Anachronism | Something or someone that isn't in its correct historical chronological time period. | 39 |
