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| 13137937943 | Mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected. | 0 | |
| 13137878595 | Motivation | reasons for a character's behavior | 1 | |
| 13137886653 | Motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work | 2 | |
| 13137899160 | Metonymy | when a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it | 3 | |
| 13137998528 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense | 4 | |
| 13138024647 | Oxymoron | combining opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | 5 | |
| 13137948269 | Parallelism | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 6 | |
| 13137795468 | Parody | a work that makes fun of another work through imitation | 7 | |
| 13137804179 | Parable | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson | 8 | |
| 13137833687 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth | 9 | |
| 13137962589 | Paratactic sentence | A sentence that simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences | 10 | |
| 13137814466 | Personification | when an object or animal is given human feeling, thoughts, or attitudes | 11 | |
| 13137846446 | Periodic sentence | sentence that places the main idea at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements | 12 | |
| 13137858952 | Polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas | 13 | |
| 13137867034 | Protagonist | central character in a story, the one who initiates the action | 14 | |
| 13137911956 | Pun | a "play on words" | 15 | |
| 13137911957 | Plot | the series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline | 16 | |
| 13138008818 | Quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem | 17 | |
| 13138035988 | Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated several times in a poem | 18 | |
| 13138048489 | Rhetoric | art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | 19 | |
| 13138169581 | Rhythm | alteration of stresses and unstressed syllables in language | 20 | |
| 13138048491 | Romance | a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a successful quest | 21 | |
| 13138062742 | Satire | a writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions to bring about a change | 22 | |
| 13138071199 | Simile | comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles | 23 | |
| 13138082240 | Soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play while alone on stage | 24 | |
| 13138107529 | Stream of Conciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind | 25 | |
| 13138098295 | Style | a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax | 26 | |
| 13138121407 | Symbol | something that represents both itself and something else | 27 | |
| 13138121408 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole | 28 | |
| 13138142799 | Syntactic permutation | sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex | 29 | |
| 13138150855 | Talltale | an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable | 30 | |
| 13138160407 | Telegraphic sentence | A sentence shorter than five words in length | 31 | |
| 13138177504 | Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work | 32 | |
| 13138191152 | Tone | the attitude a writer takes towards something | 33 | |
| 13138193543 | Tricolor sentence | sentence of three parts of equal importance and length | 34 | |
| 13138216651 | Understatement | A statement that says less than what is meant | 35 | |
| 13138219095 | Vernacular | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality | 36 |
