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| 4384606542 | antithesis | "To err is human, to forgive divine." | 0 | |
| 4384608258 | archetype | Two lovers from different social classes fall in love despite familial objections | 1 | |
| 4384615149 | alliteration | softly she spoke, or so Sarah said | 2 | |
| 4384616745 | chiasmus | "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." | 3 | |
| 4384618543 | asyndeton | "We use words like honor, code, loyalty." | 4 | |
| 4384623434 | colloquial | "Don't ask for a frappe or a stuffed quahog in Pennsylvania." | 5 | |
| 4384627104 | allusion | He walks around like he as the weight of the world on his shoulders. | 6 | |
| 4384631651 | attitude | I absolutely abhor the cold, snowy weather. | 7 | |
| 4384634538 | apostrophe | "Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll." | 8 | |
| 4384637609 | anaphora | "This happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone..." | 9 | |
| 4384641197 | aphorism | "A penny saved is a penny earned." | 10 | |
| 4384643961 | cliche | "...and they lived happily ever after." | 11 | |
| 4384646912 | atmosphere | "It is summer. Arun makes his way slowly through the abundant green of Edge Hill as if he were moving cautiously through massed waves of water under which unknown object lurked. Greenness hangs, drips, and sways from every branch and twig and fron in the surging luxuriance of July | 12 | |
| 4384666250 | allegory | the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare" | 13 | |
| 4384668719 | conceit | In "Valediction Forbidding Mourning", John Donne compares he and his wife to two legs of a mathematical compass. He goes on to elaborate that the further he goes, the more his wife bends towards him. She is the fixed foot of the compass | 14 | |
| 4384685324 | epic | The tale of Beowulf and his adventures and conquests | 15 | |
| 4384687674 | dialect | "De cow up'n'died in my han's." | 16 | |
| 4384689784 | hyperbole | "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow!" | 17 | |
| 4384694149 | ellipsis | I was wondering...would you mind very much...well, I have something to ask. | 18 | |
| 4384699910 | foreshadowing | "Entering the castle was a fatal mistake for Sir Bors." | 19 | |
| 4384702875 | diction | "I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember." | 20 | |
| 4384707250 | dissonance | "Fierce-throated beauty! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night." | 21 | |
| 4384715948 | epigraph | At the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, the quote by Charles Lamb appears: "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." | 22 | |
| 4384722239 | hubris | Macbeth's tragic flaw | 23 | |
| 4384723796 | fable | Mother Goose's tales | 24 | |
| 4384725762 | euhemism | Owen Meany had gone to a "better place" OR he's "singing with the angels." | 25 | |
| 4384746333 | oxymoron | jumbo shrimp | 26 | |
| 4384746334 | litote | "Last week I saw a woman flayed and you would not believe how it altered her person for the worse." | 27 | |
| 4384751636 | imagery | The scent of moldering leaves wafted through the dank forest. | 28 | |
| 4384754905 | metonymy | "The gingham dog and the calico cat side by side on the table sat..." | 29 | |
| 4384758843 | metaphor | "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun." | 30 | |
| 4384763354 | mood | The fear I felt, the horror I imagined came to life as the door slowly opened | 31 | |
| 4384766896 | jargon | The computer geek crashed the hard drive trying to interface it with an outdated modem. | 32 | |
| 4384769978 | malapropism | "The doctor wrote a subscription." | 33 | |
| 4384773333 | motif | The shot in A Prayer for Owen Meany that occurs over and over in the story | 34 | |
| 4384777295 | paradox | "The pen is mightier than the sword." | 35 | |
| 4384779096 | juxtaposition | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." | 36 | |
| 4384783086 | parable | The ministers Black Veil, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, teaches that everyone has sins and those sins separate us from each other | 37 | |
| 4384793171 | satire | Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby | 38 | |
| 4384797805 | polysyndeton | We were going swimming or biking or hiking or somewhere else not mentioned. | 39 | |
| 4384801648 | romantic | Wordsworth and his crew described nature a place of piece and believed that people should return to the past, a time of less complication and more purity. | 40 | |
| 4384811828 | parallelism | "Who is the Happy Warrior?" Who is he that every man should wish to be?" | 41 | |
| 4384816346 | realism | The works of Mark Twain describes nature and life without idealizing them | 42 | |
| 4384819201 | persona | Jonathan Swift proposed eating babies as a solution to the problem of the poor in Ireland | 43 | |
| 4384823144 | Phillipic | He is lying, cheating, rotten scoundrel. | 44 | |
| 4384826725 | parody | Scary Movie I, Scary Movie II, Scary Movie III | 45 | |
| 4384842529 | synecdoche | The White House denies any allegations of misconduct. | 46 | |
| 4384845229 | style | Hemingway's calling card of short, clear, simple sentences and understatement. | 47 | |
| 4384847649 | theme | the idea that one cannot fight their fate is common in many pieces of literature | 48 | |
| 4384850477 | tragic hero | Macbeth | 49 | |
| 4384852878 | solecism | He was young. Witty. Charming. Everything that a woman could want. Except, he was taken. | 50 | |
| 4384857281 | syllepsis | "After he threw the ball, he threw a fit." | 51 |
