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| 12176813291 | simile | a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things using like or as | 0 | |
| 12176820269 | setting | the context and environment in which something is situated | 1 | |
| 12176828419 | satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn | 2 | |
| 12176858029 | rhythm | alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech | 3 | |
| 12176862339 | rhetoric | using language effectively to please or persuade | 4 | |
| 12176866374 | repetition | the continued use of the same word or word pattern | 5 | |
| 12176871063 | plot | the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc. | 6 | |
| 12176875091 | pathos | a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow | 7 | |
| 12176878694 | pastoral | a literary work idealizing the rural life | 8 | |
| 12176882541 | paradox | a statement that contradicts itself | 9 | |
| 12176962493 | allegory | a short moral story | 10 | |
| 12176966483 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word | 11 | |
| 12176972439 | apostrophe | an address to an absent or imaginary person | 12 | |
| 12176976447 | ballad | a narrative poem of popular origin | 13 | |
| 12176980206 | climax | the decisive moment in a novel or play | 14 | |
| 12176984164 | denouement | the resolution of the main complication of a literary work | 15 | |
| 12176988189 | dialogue | the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | 16 | |
| 12176991591 | diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words | 17 | |
| 12177007579 | elegy | a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | 18 | |
| 12177010048 | epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 19 | |
| 12177053334 | epithet | descriptive word or phrase | 20 | |
| 12177057649 | exaggeration | the act of making something more noticeable than usual | 21 | |
| 12177062166 | figurative | not literal | 22 | |
| 12177064964 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 23 | |
| 12177069553 | irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs | 24 | |
| 12177090995 | literal | limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | 25 | |
| 12177095958 | lyric | of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion | 26 | |
| 12177099902 | metaphor | a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity | 27 | |
| 12177107624 | narrative | consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | 28 | |
| 12177111725 | oxymoron | conjoined contradictory terms | 29 | |
| 12177120448 | allegory | Syn: analogy, parable | 30 | |
| 12177579460 | satire | Syn: mockery | 31 | |
| 12177124953 | alliteration | Syn: rhyme | 32 | |
| 12177554313 | pathos | Syn: emotion | 33 | |
| 12177129037 | Apostrophe | Syn: address | 34 | |
| 12177137180 | ballad | Syn: poem | 35 | |
| 12177141788 | climax | Syn: highlight | 36 | |
| 12177148193 | denouement | Syn: result | 37 | |
| 12177152616 | dialogue | Syn: discussion | 38 | |
| 12177156654 | diction | Syn: wording, articulation | 39 | |
| 12177162283 | elgy | Syn: lament | 40 | |
| 12177162284 | epic | Syn: legend | 41 | |
| 12177246599 | paradox | Syn: contradiction | 42 | |
| 12177257421 | literal | Syn: factual | 43 | |
| 12177261535 | rhetoric | Syn: meter | 44 | |
| 12177278604 | Narrative | Syn: chronicle | 45 | |
| 12177410495 | epithet | Syn: nickname | 46 | |
| 12177285584 | rhythm | Syn: oratory | 47 | |
| 12177296336 | denouement | Ant: beginning, introduction | 48 | |
| 12177459680 | exaggeration | Syn: Overstatement | 49 | |
| 12177299511 | hyperbole | Ant: understatement , minimization | 50 | |
| 12177303239 | figurative | Ant: literal, factual | 51 | |
| 12177306655 | pastoral | Ant: urban, municipal | 52 | |
| 12177309558 | repetition | Ant: sporadic, infrequent | 53 | |
| 12177495522 | literal | Ant: Figurative | 54 |
