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| 7847895161 | Allegory | A story with two levels of meaning. The surface story and the symbolic level. | 0 | |
| 7847904018 | Alliteration | When two or more words in a phrase have the same beginning sound | 1 | |
| 7847914292 | Allusion | Refers to a well known story, event, or person to make a comparison | 2 | |
| 7847952964 | ambiguity | A word, phrase, or statement that has more than one meaning. can lead to vagueness or confusion | 3 | |
| 7847956186 | anthropomorphism | Giving human traits, behaviors, ambitions, and/or emotions to something non-human | 4 | |
| 7847959586 | assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound | 5 | |
| 7847963992 | ballad | A poetic narrative that usually follows an ABAB rhyme scheme | 6 | |
| 7847970028 | catharsis | An emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of renewal or liberation | 7 | |
| 7847977184 | conceit | A type of metaphor that compares two very different things in a clever way | 8 | |
| 7847980265 | consonance | Repetitive sounds made by consonants in a phrase | 9 | |
| 7847985395 | didactic | A type of writing that aims to teach us something | 10 | |
| 7848014675 | dramatic convention | A set of rules that both the audience and the actors are familiar with and acts as a useful way of quickly signifying the nature of the action of a character | 11 | |
| 7848022206 | dramatic irony | Irony expressed through a works structure | 12 | |
| 7848027810 | elegy | A poem of song in the form of "elegiac" couplets, written in the honor of someone that has died | 13 | |
| 7848043625 | end rhyme | When a poem that has lines that end in words that rhyme | 14 | |
| 7848048623 | end-stopped line | When a line in poetry ends with a definite punctuation mark | 15 | |
| 7848062537 | euphony | "euphonos" means sweet-voiced. The use of melody or "loveliness" in the manner of speech | 16 | |
| 7848085499 | farce | Type of comedy that uses exaggeration and funny situations | 17 | |
| 7848105023 | hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration to make a point | 18 | |
| 7848111426 | irony of situation | Irony involving a situation where actions have the opposite of the intended effect | 19 | |
| 7848238891 | litotes | A figure of speech that uses understatement via double negatives | 20 | |
| 7848303264 | metaphor | Like a simile but without using like or as | 21 | |
| 7848308273 | metonymy | A figure of speech where yo replace the name of a thing with that of something that is closely related | 22 | |
| 7848312892 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates a sound | 23 | |
| 7848315455 | oxymoron | Two contradictory words being used together (cold sweat) | 24 | |
| 7848318609 | paradox | A statement that contradicts itself, but still seems to be true | 25 | |
| 7848326128 | parody | Imitating someone or something else in a way that makes fun of it/them | 26 | |
| 7848329680 | personification | Giving an object or creature human characteristics | 27 | |
| 7848336208 | phonetic intensive | A word whose sound somewhat suggests its meaning, but does not explicitly refer to sounds | 28 | |
| 7848339586 | prose | A form of language without a formal metrical structure | 29 | |
| 7848358329 | protagonist | The main character of a story | 30 | |
| 7848361063 | refrain | A phrase or verse that recurs repeatedly throughout a passage | 31 | |
| 7848369237 | run-on line | A phrase, clause, or thought that does not finish at the line break | 32 | |
| 7848386519 | satire | using humor, irony, exaggeration and/or ridicule to expose a fault in someone/something | 33 | |
| 7848395804 | simile | Compares two things, similar to a metaphor, but uses "like" or "as" so it is a direct comparison | 34 | |
| 7848400344 | sustained figure (extended metaphor) | A story that as a whole is actually a metaphor that is symbolizing a concept | 35 | |
| 7848416548 | symbol | Usually an object of some form that stands for a greater idea or concept | 36 | |
| 7848421657 | synecdoche | When you use something to represent a whole, or to represent a piece of the whole | 37 | |
| 7848439615 | theme | The underlying meaning or central idea of a work | 38 | |
| 7848442470 | tone | The manner of speaking or attitude of the writer toward a subject or to the audience | 39 | |
| 7848445851 | understatement | To make a situation seem less important than it actually is | 40 | |
| 7848449691 | verbal irony | When someone says the opposite of what they actually mean. Usually sarcastic | 41 |
