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| 7779129510 | Allegory | Things, events and people have another extended, frequently abstract meaning. | 0 | |
| 7779132074 | Ambiguity | Multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate | 1 | |
| 7779133842 | Apostrophe | Direct address to someone or something that is not present | 2 | |
| 7779133843 | Connotation | Is a different meaning that the actual meaning of a word or emotions | 3 | |
| 7779137750 | Convention | A device of style or subject matter that is used so often that it becomes a recognized means of expression | 4 | |
| 7779137751 | Denotation | The specific and literal meaning of a word | 5 | |
| 7779147058 | Didactic | Explicitly instructive | 6 | |
| 7779150606 | Degression | The inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work | 7 | |
| 7779155811 | Epigram | A pithy saying | 8 | |
| 7779157545 | Euphemism | A figurative of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness | 9 | |
| 7779161949 | Grotesque | Characterized by distortions or incongruities | 10 | |
| 7779161950 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration and overstatement | 11 | |
| 7779162076 | Jargon | The specialized language of a profession or group | 12 | |
| 7779164790 | Literal | The precise and explicit meaning | 13 | |
| 7779164791 | Lyrical | Songlike | 14 | |
| 7779167474 | Oxymoron | A union of contradictory terms | 15 | |
| 7779167475 | Parable | A story designed to suggest a principle | 16 | |
| 7779213841 | Paradox | A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but is true | 17 | |
| 7779213842 | Parody | An imitation of something which is funny | 18 | |
| 7779216487 | Personification | Giving non living items human characteristics | 19 | |
| 7779219707 | Reliability | Fictional narrators in whose words the reader can place his trust | 20 | |
| 7779223874 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked for effect | 21 | |
| 7779225922 | Soliloquy | Where character speaks his thoughts aloud | 22 | |
| 7779228481 | Stereotype | A convectional pattern, expression, character or idea | 23 | |
| 7779230786 | Syllogism | A form of reasoning; 2 statements 1 conclusion | 24 | |
| 7780739031 | Thesis | Theme, meaning, position | 25 | |
| 7780739078 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds(constant) | 26 | |
| 7780741035 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 27 | |
| 7780741791 | Ballad meter | Rhymed ABCD | 28 | |
| 7780741894 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 29 | |
| 7780743385 | Dactyl | A metrical foot of three syllables | 30 | |
| 7780744753 | End-stopped | A line with a pause at the end | 31 | |
| 7780744754 | Free verse | Poetry that is not written in a traditional meter | 32 | |
| 7780747044 | Heroic couplet | Lines that have an AA-BB-CC rhyme | 33 | |
| 7780747045 | hexameter | A line containing six feet | 34 | |
| 7780748812 | Iamb | The most common foot in English poetry | 35 | |
| 7780751938 | Internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end | 36 | |
| 7780755028 | Onomatopoeia | Sounds that suggest their actual meaning | 37 | |
| 7780755128 | Pentameter | A line containing five feet | 38 | |
| 7780757038 | Rhyme royal | A seven line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc | 39 | |
| 7780757039 | Sonnet | A poem written in iambic pentameter normally composed of 14 lines | 40 | |
| 7780758099 | Stanza | A repeated grouping of 3 or more lines | 41 | |
| 7780765809 | Terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb,cdc | 42 | |
| 7780767045 | Tetrameter | A line of four feet | 43 | |
| 7780767046 | Antecedent | Gone before , especially the word, phrase or clause | 44 | |
| 7780768389 | Clause | A group of words containing a subject and its verb | 45 | |
| 7780768390 | Ellipsis | A phrase that omits some words that would be necessary for a complete construction | 46 | |
| 7780769661 | Imperative | The mood of the verb | 47 | |
| 7780769662 | Modify | To restrict or limit in meaning | 48 | |
| 7780776724 | Parallel structure | A similar grammatical structure | 49 | |
| 7780777632 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that comes complete at the end | 50 | |
| 7780777730 | Syntax | The structure of a sentence | 51 |
