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| 10433213407 | Analogy | A comparison between two objects or events. | 0 | |
| 10433219327 | Anthimeria | The usage of a word in a new grammatical form, most often the usage of a noun as a verb. | 1 | |
| 10433251442 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing, quality, event to emphasize a point external to the object of exaggeration; intentional exaggeration for rhetorical effect. | 2 | |
| 10433252095 | Litotes | Understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed. | 3 | |
| 10433253864 | Rhetorical Question | Figure which asks a question, not for the purpose of further discussion, but to assert or deny an answer implicitly; a question whose answer is obvious or implied. | 4 | |
| 10433255866 | Irony | A discrepancy between a literal statement and the speaker's attitude or intent. | 5 | |
| 10433256356 | Metonymy | Substitution of one word for another which it suggests. | 6 | |
| 10433257489 | Synecdoche | Figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa; any part or portion or quality of a thing used to stand for the whole of the thing or vice versa -- genus to species or species to genus. | 7 | |
| 10433258437 | Personification | Figure which represents abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities, including physical, emotional, and spiritual; the application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities. | 8 | |
| 10433258438 | Periphrasis | Expressing an idea with more words than are strictly necessary | 9 | |
| 10433260485 | Pun | A play on words | 10 | |
| 10433260486 | Oxymoron | Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory; a TWO WORD paradox; two words with contrary or apparently contradictory meanings occurring next to each other, and, which, nonetheless, evoke some measure of truth; the figure conjures a new way of seeing or understanding, a novel meaning. | 11 | |
| 10433262123 | Apostrophe | A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present. | 12 | |
| 10433262811 | Paradox | Figure that employs an apparent contradiction which, nonetheless, evokes some measure of truth; a statement which seems at one level to be nonsensical because it moves against a normalcy. At another level, however, the figure conjures a new way of seeing or understanding, a novel meaning. | 13 | |
| 10442972939 | Parallelism | Figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure. | 14 | |
| 10442988286 | Zeugma | Two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them. | 15 | |
| 10442993141 | Antithesis | Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences. | 16 | |
| 10443001846 | Antimetabole | Figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause; an inverted order of repeated words in adjacent phrases or clauses (A-B, B-A). | 17 | |
| 10443007879 | Anaphora | Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses. | 18 | |
| 10443010703 | parenthesis | An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence. | 19 | |
| 10443013767 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 20 | |
| 10443020611 | Ellipsis | three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation | 21 | |
| 10443018281 | Asyndeton | Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or clauses; a string of words not separated by normally occurring conjunctions. | 22 | |
| 10446588389 | Alliteration | Figure of emphasis that occurs through the repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases. | 23 | |
| 10446596676 | Assonance | Figure of repetition in which different words with the same or similar vowel sounds occur successively in words with different consonants; two or more words with similar vowel sounds sandwiched between different consonants. | 24 | |
| 10446609734 | Epistrophe | Ending several sentences or clauses with the same word | 25 | |
| 10446614767 | Climax | Figure of repetition in which words or phrases or sentences are arranged in order of increasing intensity or importance, often in parallel construction; words or phrases arranged by degrees of increasing significance. | 26 | |
| 10446621726 | Anadiplosis | Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase. | 27 | |
| 10447248363 | Allegory | Description of a subject under the guise of some other subject of aptly suggestive resemblance, in which properties and circumstances attributed to the apparent subject really refer to the subject they are meant to suggest; essentially a narrative strategy based on an extended or continued metaphor, often a story in which characters represent abstract ideas or moral values. | 28 | |
| 10447249247 | Allusion | Figure of explication using a brief or casual reference to a famous person, group, historical event, place, or work of art. | 29 | |
| 10447253035 | Ambiguity | The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. | 30 | |
| 10447253945 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 31 | |
| 10447255128 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 32 | |
| 10447257598 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 33 | |
| 10447259223 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 34 | |
| 10447262125 | Dialect | a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | 35 | |
| 10447264114 | Didactic | instructive | 36 | |
| 10447266485 | Genre | a major category | 37 | |
| 10447267285 | homily | a sermon | 38 | |
| 10447268077 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 39 | |
| 10447268802 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 40 | |
| 10447274808 | Mood | a temporary state of mind or feeling. | 41 | |
| 10447275237 | parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 42 | |
| 10447276071 | pedantic | A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy, and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning. | 43 | |
| 10447276632 | periodic sentences | 44 | ||
| 10447277829 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | 45 | |
| 10447278597 | Sarcasm | witty language used to convey insults or scorn | 46 | |
| 10447294887 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies, in a serious or humorous way. | 47 | |
| 10447308935 | semantics | Semantics is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics | 48 | |
| 10447309743 | Style | A basic and distinctive mode of expression. | 49 | |
| 10447311538 | Syllogism | a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. | 50 | |
| 10447312668 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 51 | |
| 10447712507 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 52 | |
| 10447717106 | thesis | the primary position taken by a writer or speaker | 53 | |
| 10447802521 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 54 |
