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| 8716838133 | absolute | a word free from limitations or qualifications | 0 | |
| 8716838134 | anecdote | a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event | 1 | |
| 8716838135 | antecedent | the word, clause, or phrase to which a pronoun refers | 2 | |
| 8716838136 | antithesis | a statement in which 2 opposing ideas are balanced | 3 | |
| 8716838137 | archetype | a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 4 | |
| 8716838138 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 5 | |
| 8716838139 | colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 6 | |
| 8716838140 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 7 | |
| 8716838141 | connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 8 | |
| 8716838142 | didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | 9 | |
| 8716838143 | epiphany | a moment of sudden realization or insight | 10 | |
| 8716838144 | epitaph | an inscription on a tomb or burial place | 11 | |
| 8716838145 | epithet | a term used to point out a characteristic of a person; often compound adjectives | 12 | |
| 8716838146 | euphemism | an indirect and less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 13 | |
| 8716838147 | expletive | an interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes a profanity | 14 | |
| 8716838148 | fable | a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 15 | |
| 8716838149 | hubris | excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy | 16 | |
| 8716838150 | invective | an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack | 17 | |
| 8716838151 | limited narrator | a narrator who presents the story as it's seen and understood by a single character and restricts info to that character | 18 | |
| 8716838152 | mood | the emotional atmosphere of a work | 19 | |
| 8716838153 | tone | attitude of a writer, usually implied, towards the subject/audience | 20 | |
| 8716838154 | parody | humorous imitation of a serious work | 21 | |
| 8716838155 | pedantic | characterized by an excessive display of learning/scholarship | 22 | |
| 8716838156 | parable | a simple story that illustrates a moral/religious lesson | 23 | |
| 8716838157 | dichotomy | a division/contrast between 2 things that are represented as being opposite/different | 24 | |
| 8716838158 | hyperbole | an exaggeration | 25 | |
| 8716838159 | litote | a conscious understatement to emphasize something | 26 | |
| 8716838160 | chiasmus | a statement with two parallel parts where they're structurally reversed | 27 | |
| 8716838161 | Ellipses | used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible | 28 | |
| 8716838162 | aphorism | a brief statement on a serious subject or truth, often using rhyme or balance | 29 | |
| 9415321686 | irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning, incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | 30 | |
| 9415321687 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth | 31 | |
| 9415321688 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 32 | |
| 9415321689 | synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 33 | |
| 9415324467 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 34 | |
| 9415324468 | syllepsis | a construction in which one word is used in two different senses | 35 | |
| 9415324469 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 36 | |
| 9415337727 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 37 | |
| 9415337817 | exhortative | giving strong encouragement | 38 | |
| 9415339504 | ingratiating | calculated to please or gain favor | 39 | |
| 9415341115 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 40 | |
| 9415341116 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 41 | |
| 9415341117 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 42 | |
| 9415342795 | asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 43 | |
| 9415346068 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 44 | |
| 9415348646 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 45 | |
| 9415348647 | conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 46 | |
| 9415350402 | inductive reasoning | specific to general reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | 47 | |
| 9415350403 | deductive reasoning | general to specific reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | 48 | |
| 9415353266 | diction | word choice | 49 | |
| 9415353267 | syntax | sentence structure | 50 | |
| 9415353268 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 51 | |
| 9415355953 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions | 52 | |
| 9415355954 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 53 | |
| 9415357669 | dependent clause | subject and verb that does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence (without a subject and verb probably a modifier NOT a dependent clause) | 54 | |
| 9415357670 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail- this may include words or grammatical structures that are not clauses (different from complex sentence) | 55 | |
| 9415359608 | modifying clause | an optional element of a sentence that does not change the essential meaning or structure of the sentence if removed | 56 | |
| 9415359609 | dissonance | harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds | 57 | |
| 9415361157 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or declaration | 58 | |
| 9415361158 | interrogative sentence | A sentence that asks a question | 59 | |
| 9415361159 | exclamatory sentence | a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark | 60 | |
| 9415363520 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 61 | |
| 9415363521 | hypophora | raising a question then proceeding to answer it | 62 | |
| 9415366344 | procatalepsis | anticipating an objection and answering it | 63 | |
| 9415366345 | solecism | nonstandard grammatical usage; a violation of grammatical rules | 64 | |
| 9415366346 | malapropism | the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar | 65 | |
| 9415368656 | COMMORATIO | repetition of an idea in different words | 66 | |
| 9415452224 | EPIMONE | frequent repetition of a phrase or question dwelling on a point | 67 | |
| 9415456843 | EPIPHORA | repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses | 68 | |
| 9415461468 | EPIZEUXIS (ep-uh-ZOOX-sis) | repetition of a word for emphasis (usually with no words in between) | 69 | |
| 9415464715 | POLYPTOTON | repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings | 70 | |
| 9423910211 | PERIODIC SENTENCE | a long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word—often with an emphatic climax. | 71 |
