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| 10919777757 | alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
| 10919777758 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 1 | |
| 10919777759 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence. | 2 | |
| 10919777760 | Anagnorisis | A moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Literally means recognition in Greek context. | 3 | |
| 10919777761 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 4 | |
| 10919777762 | Antistrophe | The second section of an ancient Greek choral ode or at the division of it... When the chorus walks from stage left to stage right. | 5 | |
| 10919777763 | Apostrophe | An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (not present), or thing (typically personified) | 6 | |
| 10919777764 | Appositive | An identifying element that helps give a brief description of the person | 7 | |
| 10919777765 | Assonance | The repetition of the sound of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllables | 8 | |
| 10919777766 | Asyndeton | The absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 9 | |
| 10919777767 | Catachresis | The use of a word in a way that is not correct, for example. | 10 | |
| 10919777768 | Catharsis | Purging through drama, the feeling of relief one feels after leaving a tragic play | 11 | |
| 10919777769 | Chiasmus | Words, grammatical constructions, or concepts repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | 12 | |
| 10919777770 | Cothurni | A grave and elevated style of acting | 13 | |
| 10919777771 | dramatic-irony | A literary technique in which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience, but are unknown to the reader. | 14 | |
| 10919777772 | epistrophe | The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 15 | |
| 10919777773 | Epithet | A descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 16 | |
| 10919777774 | Epizeuxis | The repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence for emphasis. | 17 | |
| 10919777775 | Epode | The third section of an ancient Greek choral ode, or of one division of such an ode | 18 | |
| 10919777776 | eponym | a disease, structure, operation, or procedure named for the person who discovered or described it first | 19 | |
| 10919777777 | Exodus | A mass departure of people | 20 | |
| 10919777778 | Foreshadowing | An indication of a future event | 21 | |
| 10919777779 | Hamartia | A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine. | 22 | |
| 10919777780 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence | 23 | |
| 10919777781 | Hyperbaton | An inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis | 24 | |
| 10919777782 | Hyperbole | An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally | 25 | |
| 10919777783 | Hypophora | A figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question. | 26 | |
| 10919777784 | Metaphor | A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as" | 27 | |
| 10919777785 | orchestra | The semicircular space in front of an ancient Greek theater stage where the chorus danced and sang | 28 | |
| 10919777786 | paean | A song of praise or triumph | 29 | |
| 10919777788 | Parallelism | The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 30 | |
| 10919777787 | Parados | An elevation of earth behind a fortified place as a protection against attack from the rear, especially a mound along the back of a trench. | 31 | |
| 10919777789 | Pathos | A quality that evokes pity or sadness | 32 | |
| 10919777790 | Peripeteia | A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances | 33 | |
| 10919777791 | Personae | The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others | 34 | |
| 10919777792 | Personification | Giving an attribute of personal nature or human characteristics to something non human. | 35 | |
| 10919777793 | Pleonasm | The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning | 36 | |
| 10919777794 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate insertion of conjunctions into a sentence for the purpose of slowing up the rhythm | 37 | |
| 10919777795 | Prologue | A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work. | 38 | |
| 10919777796 | rhetorical question | A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. | 39 | |
| 10919777797 | sententia | Brief moral sayings, such as proverbs, taken from another source. | 40 | |
| 10919777798 | Simile | A comparison using the terms "like" and "as" | 41 | |
| 10919777799 | situational irony | Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended....therefore the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 42 | |
| 10919777800 | Skene | The structure at the back of the theater stage. | 43 | |
| 10919777801 | Strophe | The first section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it. | 44 | |
| 10919777802 | Synecdoche | A part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 45 | |
| 10919777804 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 46 | |
| 10919777805 | verbal irony | Essentially Sarcasm in that one says the complete opposite of what they are actually thinking in order to generate a false response. | 47 | |
| 10919777806 | Zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses or to two others of which it semantically suits only one | 48 |
