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| 2779101738 | Metonymy | The substitution of an attribute or adjunct to replace the name of the whole. Ex. "Uniforms showed up at the crime scene" where 'uniforms' represents police officers. | 0 | |
| 2779104165 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech wherein a part is meant to represent a whole or vice versa. Ex. "Dallas took home the Super Bowl" where Dallas as a whole is represented by its football team. | 1 | |
| 2779107953 | Motif | An image, action, or symbol that is repeated throughout a work to enhance meaning. | 2 | |
| 2779108209 | Allusion | A reference to an outside work. | 3 | |
| 2779108359 | Allegory | A poem, play, or novel that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden moral lesson. | 4 | |
| 2779110576 | Apostrophe | An exclamatory passage addressed to an absent party (either a person who isn't present or an object). | 5 | |
| 2779111796 | Paradox | A passage that appears silly or self-contradictory but conceals a truth. | 6 | |
| 2779112240 | Archetype | A typical character type, situation, or action that represents a universal pattern in human nature (i.e. a trope). | 7 | |
| 2779115674 | Anthropomorphism/Personification | Assigning human traits to something nonhuman. | 8 | |
| 2779116897 | Ekphrasis | Writing that comments on another art form. | 9 | |
| 2779117453 | Foil | A person or thing that contrasts with and thereby emphasizes the qualities of another. | 10 | |
| 2779119228 | Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth. | 11 | |
| 2779120767 | Malapropism | A misused word or phrase in the place of a similar sounding word or phrase. | 12 | |
| 2779121374 | Juxtaposition | Two things being presented alongside one another to provoke comparison and contrast. | 13 | |
| 2779122429 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of two direct opposites to achieve a contrasting effect. | 14 | |
| 2779123197 | Meiosis | A witty understatement that belittles or dismisses something/someone, particularly by diminishing importance. | 15 | |
| 2779124936 | Parallelism | Repeated, relatively identical sentence structure or story structure. | 16 | |
| 2779124937 | Chiasmus | A syntactical or plot structure in which paralleled items are repeated in reverse order. Ex. "The hills sloped up and down, down and up, all across the countryside." | 17 | |
| 2779126494 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 18 | |
| 2779126499 | Epistrophe | Repetition of a word/phrase at the end of successive clauses. | 19 | |
| 2779127063 | Periphrasis | Use of excessive language/surplus words. | 20 | |
| 2779127064 | Assonance | Repetition of vowels (i.e. long song). | 21 | |
| 2779127065 | Consonance | Repetition of consonants (i.e. I stuck a streak of bad luck). | 22 | |
| 2779127198 | Enjambment | Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line/stanza. | 23 | |
| 2779127199 | Caesura | A pause within a phrase. | 24 | |
| 2779127200 | Asyndeton | Purposely leaving out conjunctions (i.e. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). | 25 | |
| 2779127529 | Polysyndeton | Purposely overusing conjunctions (i.e. here and there and everywhere). | 26 | |
| 2779127530 | Syllepsis | A figure of speech in which a word is used in two contexts. Ex. "Caught the train and a bad cold." | 27 | |
| 3470559757 | Catharsis | The release of extreme emotions from internal restoration and/or renewal | 28 | |
| 3470567645 | Syntactic Permutation | Use of extremely complex sentence structure with multiple clauses (stream of consciousness) | 29 | |
| 3470579188 | Litotes | Use of double negatives to create an understatement | 30 | |
| 3470586476 | Farce | A genre/type of comedy that creates comedic situation (drunkenness) | 31 | |
| 3470591207 | Points of View | All literature is told from 1st, 2nd (narrator telling a story to someone else), 3rd (bystander), or 3rd person omniscient | 32 | |
| 3470598563 | Epanalepsis | Repetition of the initial word/phrase of a sentence at the end of that same sentence | 33 | |
| 3470603563 | Implied Metaphor | Doesn't explicitly state the comparison (it hints at the comparison) | 34 | |
| 3470607615 | Local Color | Cultural mannerisms that define the characteristics of an area through traits (area of mainstream culture) | 35 | |
| 3470617057 | Understatement | A form of irony in which something is presented as less important than it actually is | 36 | |
| 3470625194 | Fable | Concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end | 37 | |
| 3470634441 | Loose Sentence | Begins with a main idea, followed with a phrase that changes the main idea by adding information | 38 | |
| 3470639834 | Didactic | Meaning to instruct, in the way of a teacher (being patronizing is a common connotation) | 39 | |
| 3470652358 | Extended Metaphor | A comparison between two unrelated objects through multiple sentences | 40 | |
| 3470657189 | Hypotactic | Arrangement of phrases/clauses in a dependent/subordinate relationship (effect in literature: sets the scene) | 41 | |
| 3470662515 | Conceit | An extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a passage | 42 | |
| 3470685926 | Inversion | Altering the traditional placement of verbs, subjects, and objects in a sentence in order to lay emphasis | 43 | |
| 3709047154 | Ambiguity | A technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work | 44 | |
| 3709050946 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word/clause at the beginning of the following clause to gain a specific effect. | 45 | |
| 3709055781 | Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule | 46 | |
| 3709061787 | Epigram | As a rule a short, witty statement in verse or prose which may be complimentary, satiric, or aphoristic | 47 | |
| 3709093116 | Irony | When expectations of not align with reality | 48 | |
| 3709094378 | Situational irony | Incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen and what actually happens instead | 49 | |
| 3709097682 | Verbal irony | Saying something but meaning the opposite | 50 | |
| 3709101215 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the characters don't | 51 |
