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| 3745501337 | Diction | Authors word choice | 1 | |
| 3745501338 | Bombast | Overdone to the point of being arrogant | 2 | |
| 3745501339 | Colloquial | Conversational language specific to a time and place | 3 | |
| 3745501340 | Cliché | Overused and tired expression | 4 | |
| 3745501341 | Formal | Proper, impersonal, dignified language | 5 | |
| 3745501342 | Slang | Informal, improper language | 6 | |
| 3745501343 | Didactic | Overly instructive, preachy, sermonising | 7 | |
| 3760469018 | Syntax | Sentence structure author uses | 8 | |
| 3760469019 | Parallel Structure | Use same pattern to show concept has equal importance | 9 | |
| 3760469020 | Rhetorical Question | Question asked for effect that doesn't need answer | 10 | |
| 3760469021 | Juxtaposition | Two things are placed side by side to make interesting contrast | 11 | |
| 3760469022 | Inverted | Object appears before verb | 12 | |
| 3760469023 | Declarative | Expresses a fact or wish | 13 | |
| 3760469024 | Interrogative | Asks a question | 14 | |
| 3760469025 | Imperative | Expresses a demand | 15 | |
| 3760469026 | Exclamatory | Expresses strong feelings | 16 | |
| 3760469027 | Repetition | Words or ideas used more than once for effect | 17 | |
| 3787318288 | trope | artful variation from the typical way an idea is expressed | 18 | |
| 3787318289 | metaphor | comparison of two unlike things | 19 | |
| 3787318290 | similie | comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 20 | |
| 3787318291 | synecdoche | part of something represents the whole | 21 | |
| 3787318292 | metonymy | person/place/thing is referred to by something closely associated with it | 22 | |
| 3787318293 | personification | giving inanimate objects human qualities | 23 | |
| 3787318294 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration for effect | 24 | |
| 3790658128 | scheme | artful variation from ordinary patten of words in a sentence | 25 | |
| 3790658129 | alliteration | repetition of the beginning consanant sounds | 26 | |
| 3790658130 | ellipsis | deliberate omission of words in a sentence | 27 | |
| 3790658131 | parenthesis | insertion of words that intercepts the normal flow | 28 | |
| 3799782059 | litotes | use of understatement for effect | 29 | |
| 3799782060 | irony | contrast of what you thought was gonna happen to what actually happens | 30 | |
| 3799782061 | verbal irony | saying one thing and meaning another | 31 | |
| 3799782062 | situational irony | when a situation turns out unexpectedly | 32 | |
| 3799782063 | dramatic irony | when audience knows more than the character | 33 | |
| 3799782064 | onomatopoeia | word whose sound imitates that which it names | 34 | |
| 3799782065 | oxymoron | paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 35 | |
| 3799782066 | paradox | contradictory statement that proves to be true | 36 | |
| 3799782067 | pun | play on words | 37 | |
| 3799782068 | allusion | reference to another famous work | 38 | |
| 3799782069 | apostrophe | someone or something is absent or not living but addressed as if it were alive and present | 39 | |
| 3822514506 | direct characterization | author directly reveals characters personality | 40 | |
| 3822514507 | indirect characterization | author forces reader to make judgment about a character based on clues | 41 | |
| 3822514508 | flat character | character with limited development | 42 | |
| 3822514509 | round character | fully developed character | 43 | |
| 3822514510 | dynamic character | character changes in some way | 44 | |
| 3822514511 | static character | character who remains same | 45 | |
| 3822514512 | protagonist | main character of work | 46 | |
| 3822514513 | antagonist | conflicts with protagonist | 47 | |
| 3822514514 | internal conflict | opposing forces within a characters mind | 48 | |
| 3822514515 | external conflict | struggles with outside forces | 49 | |
| 3822514516 | foil | a character who acts in contrast to another to highlight certain qualities | 50 | |
| 3880428893 | flashback | scene that interrupts normal chronological flow to show the past | 51 | |
| 3880428894 | foreshadowing | gives clues to what is going to happen later in the plot | 52 | |
| 3880428895 | point of view | perspective from which the writer tells the story | 53 | |
| 3880429740 | first-person | one character is telling the story | 54 | |
| 3880429741 | third-person limited | unknown narrator focuses on thoughts of one character | 55 | |
| 3880429742 | omniscient | all-knowing in regards to every character | 56 | |
| 3880433043 | objective | unbiased, impersonal | 57 | |
| 3880433044 | soliloquy | speech made by a character when they are alone on stage | 58 | |
| 3880433045 | suspense | the feeling of uncertainty in the reader | 59 | |
| 3880433046 | theme | purpose of the work, provides some sort of insight | 60 | |
| 3880434231 | tone | attitude of the writer | 61 | |
| 3880434232 | mood | how reader feels in response to the authors tone | 62 | |
| 3962291249 | enjambent | running on of one line of poetry to another | 63 | |
| 3962291250 | blank verse | unrhymed poetry of a specific meter | 64 | |
| 3962291251 | caesura | pause or break within line of poetry | 65 | |
| 3962292683 | couplet | two consecutive lines that rhyme | 66 | |
| 3962292684 | ballad | poem that tells a story | 67 | |
| 3962292685 | elegy | poem of mourning | 68 | |
| 3962292686 | lyric | poem that expresses personal feelings and strong emotion | 69 | |
| 3962292687 | ode | lyrical poem about a serious subject | 70 | |
| 3962293628 | sonnet | 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 71 | |
| 3962293629 | meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates rhythm | 72 | |
| 3962293630 | internal rhyme | words rhyme inside the line | 73 | |
| 3962294732 | end rhyme | words rhyme at end of line | 74 | |
| 3962294733 | slant rhyme | not exact rhyme but have a corresponding sound | 75 |
