| 3912126996 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 3912205933 | Ambiguity | A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning | 1 | |
| 3912205934 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 2 | |
| 3912008101 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite | 3 | |
| 3912036031 | Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth | 4 | |
| 3912213319 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea | 5 | |
| 3912227891 | Didactic | Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 6 | |
| 3912233568 | Epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 7 | |
| 3912200410 | Litotes | Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 8 | |
| 3912208808 | Motif | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work | 9 | |
| 3912235367 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole | 10 | |
| 3945358614 | Archetype | A typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature | 11 | |
| 3945399961 | Hubris | The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death | 12 | |
| 3945419732 | Anachromism | An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting | 13 | |
| 3945449927 | Caricature | A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect | 14 | |
| 3945461191 | Euphemism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 15 | |
| 3947313276 | Catharsis | The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions | 16 | |
| 3947313277 | Colloquialism | 17 | 
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