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| 7158702429 | Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words | 0 | |
| 7158702430 | Denotation | the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression | 1 | |
| 7158703178 | Connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning | 2 | |
| 7158703179 | Formal | done in accordance with rules of convention or etiquette; suitable for or constituting an official or important situation or occasion; official; sincere | 3 | |
| 7158704336 | Informal | having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature. | 4 | |
| 7158705134 | Slang | very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom | 5 | |
| 7158705659 | Colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal | 6 | |
| 7158705660 | Abstract | thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances such as an idea | 7 | |
| 7158706115 | Concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; pertaining to or concerned with realities | 8 | |
| 7158706927 | Figurative language | language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation | 9 | |
| 7158706928 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 10 | |
| 7158707626 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 11 | |
| 7158708044 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 12 | |
| 7158708835 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 13 | |
| 7158709386 | Extended Metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem | 14 | |
| 7158709387 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 15 | |
| 7158709927 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 16 | |
| 7158709928 | Paradox | a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true | 17 | |
| 7158710476 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 18 | |
| 7158710477 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work | 19 | |
| 7158711164 | Syntax | an author's specific arrangement of words and phrases; sentence structure | 20 | |
| 7158711790 | Simple | easily understood or done; presenting something that is very straightforward | 21 | |
| 7158711791 | Complex | consisting of many different and connected parts | 22 | |
| 7158712284 | Cumulative | increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions | 23 | |
| 7158712285 | Periodic | appearing or occurring at intervals | 24 | |
| 7158713003 | Inverted | put upside down or in the opposite position, order, or arrangement; to reverse the normal word order of a structure | 25 | |
| 7158713004 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 26 | |
| 7158714581 | Caesura | a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line | 27 | |
| 7158714582 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 28 | |
| 7158714583 | Mood | inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind | 29 | |
| 7158715997 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 30 | |
| 7158716607 | End Rhyme | a poem that has lines ending with words that sound the same | 31 | |
| 7158717898 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next | 32 | |
| 7158717899 | Near Rhyme | rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly | 33 | |
| 7158718538 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | 34 | |
| 7158719758 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit | 35 | |
| 7158719759 | Meter | the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by number/lngth of feet in a line | 36 | |
| 7158720796 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 37 | |
| 7158720797 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter | 38 | |
| 7158721127 | Form | structure; how a piece is constructed and organized | 39 | |
| 7158721128 | Sonnet | 14 line poem with ten syllables per line | 40 | |
| 7158722600 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead; a poem written in elegiac couplets | 41 | |
| 7158723137 | Lyric | a poem or verse expressing the writer's emotions | 42 | |
| 7158723138 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 43 | |
| 7158723139 | Sound | music, speech, or effect used to reinforce meaning or evoke emotion | 44 | |
| 7158726084 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 45 | |
| 7158726988 | Assonance | the repetition of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 46 | |
| 7158730057 | Onomatopoeia | word for a sound | 47 | |
| 7158734243 | Cadence | the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece; the momentary changes in rhythm and pitch which help set the rhythmic paces of a literary piece | 48 | |
| 7327217897 | Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 49 |
