Terms : Hide Images
| 2764851115 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 2764851116 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 1 | |
| 2764851117 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 2 | |
| 2764851118 | Anaphora | is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis or the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition | 3 | |
| 2764851119 | Anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | 4 | |
| 2764851120 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 5 | |
| 2764851121 | Antimetabole | is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order | 6 | |
| 2764851122 | Anti-hero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 7 | |
| 2764851123 | Anthropomorphism | is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. | 8 | |
| 2764851124 | Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth | 9 | |
| 2764851125 | Apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). | 10 | |
| 2764851126 | Apposition | a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent | 11 | |
| 2764851127 | Archetype | a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology | 12 | |
| 2764851128 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 13 | |
| 2764851129 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 14 | |
| 2764851130 | Ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. | 15 | |
| 2764851131 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education. | 16 | |
| 2764851132 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter. | 17 | |
| 2764851133 | Bombastic | high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people. | 18 | |
| 2764851134 | Cacophony | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 19 | |
| 2764851135 | Caesura | a pause near the middle of a line | 20 | |
| 2764851136 | Caricature | the art or style of such exaggerated representation | 21 | |
| 2764851137 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | 22 | |
| 2764851138 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; | 23 | |
| 2764851139 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 24 |
