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| 6753315620 | allegory | a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities | 0 | |
| 6753321217 | anachronism | an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of order of time or misplaced in time | 1 | |
| 6753324420 | anadiplosis | the repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 2 | |
| 6753331146 | anecdote | a very short story used to illustrate a point | 3 | |
| 6753332511 | chiasmus | the repetition or words, in clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 4 | |
| 6753336281 | antithesis | establishing a contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them | 5 | |
| 6753343406 | aphorism | a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life | 6 | |
| 6753346631 | aposiopesis | stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished | 7 | |
| 6753350337 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly | 8 | |
| 6753357505 | archetype | a pattern or model of an action, a character type, or image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal | 9 | |
| 6753364513 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighboring words | 10 | |
| 6753370787 | caesura | a pause in a line or verse, a break in a sentence or clause | 11 | |
| 6753375785 | circumlocution | a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served | 12 | |
| 6753381367 | conceit | a far-fetched metaphor presenting surprising parallels between two dissimilar things | 13 | |
| 6753387829 | consonance | the repetition of identical or similar consonants whose vowel sounds are different | 14 | |
| 6753390908 | denouement | loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion | 15 | |
| 6753399754 | dogmatic | rigid in beliefs and principles | 16 | |
| 6753401448 | enjambment | the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza into the next without stopping | 17 | |
| 6753403925 | epigram | witty aphorism | 18 | |
| 6753406132 | epigraph | the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at a theme | 19 | |
| 6753407513 | epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses | 20 | |
| 6753412666 | epithet | a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone's character | 21 | |
| 6753419040 | ethos | the ability in literature or argument to utilize an appeal to one's ethics or morals | 22 | |
| 6753424224 | exposition | beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation | 23 | |
| 6753431549 | farce | a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue | 24 | |
| 6753440096 | incongruity | the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other, paradox, dichotomy | 25 | |
| 6753444878 | in media res | "in the middle of things" a story begins in middle and flashbacks are used to fill in the plot | 26 | |
| 6753453020 | inversion | words placed out of order for poetic emphasis | 27 | |
| 6753455477 | juxtaposition | the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of a paragraph to contrast with another nearby | 28 | |
| 6753459436 | litote | an affirmation made indirectly by stating the opposite, usually with an effect of understatement | 29 | |
| 6753466551 | metonymy | the technique of substituting a word for an object closely associated with it | 30 | |
| 6753469594 | motif | recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature | 31 | |
| 6753492843 | English sonnet | ABAB ABAB EFEF GG | 32 | |
| 6753495630 | Italian sonnet | ABBA ABBA CDE CDE | 33 | |
| 6753499334 | syllogism | a form of logical reasoning with two premises and a conclusion | 34 | |
| 6753501628 | synesthesia | the description of one kind of sensation coupled with another | 35 | |
| 6753504412 | synecdoche | the technique of lessening the status of something to a part of its whole "All hands on deck!" | 36 |
