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| 5025685744 | cliche | a trite, stereotyped expression. a sentence or phrase usually a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse | 0 | |
| 5026150681 | coherence | logical interconnection; overall sense or understanding that stems from the links among its underlying ideas and from the logical organization and development of ots thematic content | 1 | |
| 5026162582 | colloquial | ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or literary writing; informal | 2 | |
| 5026170857 | concrete | representing or applied to an actual substance or thing, as opposed to an abstract quality | 3 | |
| 5026176962 | connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning | 4 | |
| 5026188153 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 5 | |
| 5026195159 | dialect | a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists | 6 | |
| 5026218361 | dichotomy | division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups | 7 | |
| 5026223489 | diction | an author's choice of words | 8 | |
| 5026228172 | didactic | writing designed explicitly to instruct; teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson | 9 | |
| 5026234098 | digression from topic | a temporary departure from one subject to another more or less distantly related topic before the discussion of the first subject is resumed | 10 | |
| 5026245967 | editorializing | to set forth one's position or opinion on some subject in, or as if in, an editorial | 11 | |
| 5026256903 | elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation | 12 | |
| 5026260116 | ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction | 13 | |
| 5026266733 | epigraph | a brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work | 14 | |
| 5026270261 | equivocation | the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth of to avoid committing oneself, esp. in order to mislead or hedge; a fallacy caused by the double meaning of a word | 15 |
