5259413764 | Flash Back | The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narritive | 0 | |
5259413765 | Perls before swine | Don't give to those who don't appreciate | 1 | |
5259413766 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant(sanitation engineer) | 2 | |
5259413767 | Crossing the Rubicon | Impossible task | 3 | |
5259413768 | Diction | The kinds and levels of words chosen by writer | 4 | |
5259413769 | Sacred Cow | Something you don't mess with preferably | 5 | |
5259413770 | Chiasmas | A statement consisting of two parallel parts structurally reversed | 6 | |
5259413771 | Pound of Flesh | Insist on being paid even if harms debtor | 7 | |
5259413772 | Allegory | A work of art intending to be not meaningful of two levels of understanding | 8 | |
5259413773 | Achilles Heel | A mighty heroes unexpected weakness | 9 | |
5263753069 | Hubris | Excessive pride or arrogance that leads to the downfall of the protagonist | 10 | |
5263753070 | Once in a blue moon | Rarely happens | 11 | |
5263753071 | Idiom | An expression that cannot be taken literally | 12 | |
5263806327 | Mrs. Grundy | Narrow-minded, conventional, prudish | 13 | |
5263806328 | Juxtaposition | Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 14 | |
5263806329 | Crocodile Tears | Fake tears | 15 | |
5263806330 | Litotes | Understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating it's opposite. | 16 | |
5263806331 | Sirens | Anything that takes you away from safety toward a destructive path | 17 | |
5263806332 | Motif | A standard theme element or dramatic situation that recurs in various works | 18 | |
5263806333 | Read the Riot act | Warning of bad behavior, there will be a consequence | 19 | |
5263806334 | 11 | 20 | ||
5263806335 | 12 | 21 | ||
5263806336 | Scape goat | A person or group that takes the blame for another | 22 | |
5263806337 | Ivory tower | Secluded and out of touch with society(negotiate connotations) | 23 | |
5263806338 | Venacular | The everyday speech of particular culture. Often non standard usage | 24 | |
5263806339 | Sound & fury | Significant nothing. Bigger than it is. | 25 | |
5263806340 | Syllepsis | A construction in which one word is used in two different senses | 26 | |
5263806341 | All that glitters is not gold. | False gold, not what it seems | 27 |
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