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| 4770629000 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. ex. Lewis is a religious allegory with Aslan as Christ and Edmund as Judas. |  | 0 |
| 4770637832 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. It can reinforce meaning. ex. peter piper picked a pepper |  | 1 |
| 4770644817 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which commonly known, such as an event, book, or place. Can be historical or religious ex. Lucifer can be an allusion |  | 2 |
| 4770650418 | ambiguity | Multiple meanings either ,intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. ex. I have never tasted a cake quite like that one before! |  | 3 |
| 4770655398 | analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. ex. 2+2=4 using oranges to help count |  | 4 |
| 4770664853 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. ex. The candidate delivered his speech to the crowd. |  | 5 |
| 4770671452 | antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite ex. Man proposes, God disposes |  | 6 |
| 4770675179 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle |  | 7 |
| 4770691278 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction |  | 8 |
| 4773004831 | atmosphere | the pervading tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art |  | 9 |
| 4773006556 | 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 |  | 10 |
| 4773009993 | clause | a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate |  | 11 |
| 4773016802 | colloquial | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing |  | 12 |
| 4773021989 | conceit | a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor |  | 13 |
| 4773025266 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |  | 14 |
| 4773028706 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests |  | 15 |
| 4773030206 | diction | Related to style, refers to word choice, with correctness, clearness, or effectiveness |  | 16 |
| 4773042697 | didactic | From the Greek, literally means "teaching" |  | 17 |
| 4773098615 | 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 |  | 18 |
| 4773104536 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work |  | 19 |
| 4773112598 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid |  | 20 |
| 4773118574 | figure of speech | a word or phrase used in a nonliteral sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage. |  | 21 |
| 4773121927 | generic conversation | This describes traditions for each genre. These conventions help to define each genre |  | 22 |
| 4773126021 | genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter ex. poetry, fiction, non fiction |  | 23 |
| 4773127206 | homily | It literally means "sermon", but more informally it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. ex. You can have a homily conversation with your parents |  | 24 |
| 4773131467 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally ex. I can eat a horse right now |  | 25 |
| 4773136087 | imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work ex. It smelled like expired milk with vomit |  | 26 |
| 4773138223 | inference/infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented ex. he inferred that we would be home right now |  | 27 |
| 4773146569 | invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language |  | 28 |
| 4773164163 | irony/ironic | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect |  | 29 |
| 4773169148 | litotes | An understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. |  | 30 |
| 4773188796 | loose sentence | The main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses |  | 31 |
| 4773192881 | 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 ex. The curtain of night |  | 32 |
| 4773195084 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant |  | 33 |
| 4773196721 | mood | referred to as the atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates an emotional situation that surrounds the readers |  | 34 |
| 4773200124 | narrative | a spoken or written account of connected events; a story ex. In movies they have narrators a lot of the time |  | 35 |
| 4773202271 | onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |  | 36 |
| 4773204898 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction |  | 37 |
| 4773205718 | paradox | a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory ex. I am nobody |  | 38 |
| 4773209423 | parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc ex. Like father like son |  | 39 |
| 4773213680 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |  | 40 |
| 4773214650 | parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect ex. Music parodies like "Just Eat It" by Weird Al |  | 41 |
| 4773216384 | pedantic | an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or. bookish |  | 42 |
| 4773223621 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end |  | 43 |
| 4773224339 | personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animasl, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions |  | 44 |
| 4773225742 | POV | the perspective from which a story is told Ex. There is first person, second person and third person |  | 45 |
| 4773226170 | prose | genre including fiction, nonfiction, written in ordinary language |  | 46 |
| 4773228798 | repetition | duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, sound,word, phrase,clause, sentence |  | 47 |
| 4773233048 | rhetoric | from the Greek for "orator," the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively |  | 48 |
| 4773235020 | rhetoric modes | the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing |  | 49 |
| 4773237486 | sarcasm | from the Greek for "to tear flesh," involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something ex. Of course we did it |  | 50 |
| 4773238145 | satire | a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutinos and conventions for reform or ridicule |  | 51 |
| 4773243518 | semantics | the branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another |  | 52 |
| 4773246156 | style | an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices; or, classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors Ex. Informal style |  | 53 |
| 4773247889 | subordinate clause | contains a subject and verb but cannot stand alone; does not express complete thought |  | 54 |
| 4773250966 | syllogism | from the Greek for "reckoning together," a deductive system of fromal logic that presents two premises (first "major," second "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion |  | 55 |
| 4773254108 | symbol | anything that represents or stands for something else ex. The US flag for freedom |  | 56 |
| 4773255553 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa ex. Boots on the ground—refers to soldiers |  | 57 |
| 4773258634 | synesthesia | when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another ex. Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sun burnt mirth |  | 58 |
| 4773269719 | syntax | the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences |  | 59 |
| 4773270191 | theme | the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life ex. fear,joy,sorrow,etc |  | 60 |
| 4773271782 | thesis | in expository writing, the thesis statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition |  | 61 |
| 4773272392 | tone | similar to mood, describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both ex. anger |  | 62 |
| 4773273864 | transition | a word or phrase that links different ideas ex. FANBOYS |  | 63 |
| 4773275879 | understaement | the ironic minimalizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is Ex. killing someone for fun |  | 64 |
| 4773276324 | wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights |  | 65 |
| 4773278393 | iscolon | a scheme of parallel structure which occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only grammatical but also length |  | 66 |
| 4773297015 | anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order ex.What a beautiful picture it is! |  | 67 |
| 4773300592 | parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence ex. I would love to go there (not really). |  | 68 |
| 4773302995 | apposition | second phrase explains first phrase ex. My dog, Woofers |  | 69 |
| 4773308970 | ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context. ex. do we ... live? |  | 70 |
| 4773310818 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses. |  | 71 |
| 4773317153 | brachylogia | a subcategory of asyndeton used in the Tudor period |  | 72 |
| 4773320311 | polysyndeton | deliberate use of many conjunctions ex. We lived and laughed and loved and left |  | 73 |
| 4773321836 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words |  | 74 |
| 4773329226 | epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses. |  | 75 |
| 4773333427 | epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause |  | 76 |
| 4773336958 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |  | 77 |
| 4773339886 | climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex |  | 78 |
| 4773342864 | antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order |  | 79 |
| 4773347420 | chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses |  | 80 |
| 4773352152 | polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root |  | 81 |
| 4773356403 | simile | explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature |  | 82 |
| 4773358181 | antanaclasis | repetition of a word in two different senses ex. Antanaclasis can be hard to use. |  | 83 |
| 4773363731 | paronomasia | use of words alike in sound but different in meaning |  | 84 |
| 4773365427 | syllepsis | use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs |  | 85 |
| 4773370597 | anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another |  | 86 |
| 4773373532 | periphrasis | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name |  | 87 |
| 4773379803 | rhetorical question | asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely |  | 88 |
| 4773387355 | admiring | regard (an object, quality, or person) with respect or warm approval. |  | 89 |
| 4773388345 | alarmed | cause (someone) to feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger ex. He had an alarming experience. |  | 90 |
| 4773389456 | allusive | working by suggestion rather than explicit mention |  | 91 |
| 4773391365 | aloof | not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant ex. Sometimes I can be aloof |  | 92 |
| 4773392025 | ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone |  | 93 |
| 4773394254 | anxious | experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. | 94 | |
| 4773394799 | apathetic | showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern. |  | 95 |
| 4773395497 | apologetic | regretfully acknowledging or excusing an offense or failure. ex. People I know are apologetic. |  | 96 |
| 4773398068 | audacious | showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks |  | 97 |
| 4773399622 | belligerent | hostile and aggressive. ex. Belligerent looking people can be very nice when you get to know them |  | 98 |
| 4773400381 | benevolent | well meaning and kindly. ex. Zach wanted to be a benevolent king |  | 99 |
| 4773400905 | candid | truthful and straightforward; frank ex. I like candid people |  | 100 |
| 4773402685 | captious | tending to find fault or raise petty objections |  | 101 |
| 4773404761 | censorious | severely critical of others. ex. Censorious people can get annoying |  | 102 |
| 4773406618 | clinical | efficient and unemotional; coldly detached. |  | 103 |
| 4773422393 | complacent | showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. ex. |  | 104 |
| 4773424906 | condescending | having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority. ex. He has a condescending personality. |  | 105 |
| 4773432659 | contemptuous | showing contempt; scornful. ex. They give contemptuous punishments |  | 106 |
| 4773433892 | cynical | believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity. ex. Humans naturally have a cynical attitude |  | 107 |
| 4773435891 | delirious | in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. ex. Doing drugs can put you in a delirious state. |  | 108 |
| 4773437286 | dogmatic | inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true. ex. People with dogmatic qualities can be a good leader |  | 109 |
| 4773439025 | effusive | expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner. ex. Winning an award gives you an effusive feeling. |  | 110 |
| 4773440275 | elated | make (someone) ecstatically happy ex. I want to make my parents elated with my accomplishments |  | 111 |
| 4773441433 | elegiac | having a mournful quality ex. People with an elegiac personality makes me feel down. |  | 112 |
| 4773442635 | fanciful | over imaginative and unrealistic. ex. Nothing is wrong with having a fanciful mind |  | 113 |
| 4773445083 | flippant | not showing a serious or respectful attitude. ex. My cousin has a flippant attitude |  | 114 |
| 4773446590 | frivolous | not having any serious purpose or value. ex. Doing extra work is frivolous |  | 115 |
| 4773447037 | giddy | make (someone) feel excited to the point of disorientation. ex. My friends have a giddy personality |  | 116 |
| 4773456185 | hesitant | tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking. ex. I'm hesitant to take this class |  | 117 |
| 4773554759 | impartial | treating all rivals or disputants equally; fair and just. ex. In games it's important to be impartial |  | 118 |
| 4773556580 | impassioned | filled with or showing great emotion. ex. People are impassioned with women equality |  | 119 |
| 4773558679 | importunate | persistent, especially to the point of annoyance or intrusion. ex. My friend can be importunate |  | 120 |
| 4773560564 | incredulous | unwilling or unable to believe something. ex. My friends can be incredolous |  | 121 |
| 4773565181 | indignant | feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment. ex. Society feels indignant with police |  | 122 |
| 4773568768 | insolent | showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect. ex. Kids are insolent all the time |  | 123 |
| 4773570396 | jocular | fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful. ex. The joker is jocular |  | 124 |
| 4773601721 | lugubrious | looking or sounding sad and dismal. ex. He was lugubrious because of a girl |  | 125 |
| 4773606091 | melancholy | a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. ex. Melancholy can describe bipolar |  | 126 |
| 4773607604 | pompous | affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important. ex. Donald trump is pompous |  | 127 |
| 4773612453 | puerile | childishly silly and trivial. ex. I'm usually puerile when I can |  | 128 |
| 4773614475 | pungent | having a sharply strong taste or smell. ex. The cheese is pungent |  | 129 |
| 4773624499 | sardonic | grimly mocking or cynical. ex. Dr. Evil is sardonic |  | 130 |
| 4773626371 | somber | oppressively solemn or sober in mood; grave. ex. Everyone has a somber day |  | 131 |
| 4773629247 | supercilious | behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. ex. Donald Trump is supercilious |  | 132 |
| 4773632434 | vexed | annoyed, frustrated, or worried. ex. I'm vexed for doing this work |  | 133 |
| 4773635138 | vindictive | having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge. ex. People in shows are vindictive all the time |  | 134 |
| 4773642381 | zealous | great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective. ex. Spongebob is zealous way to much |  | 135 |
