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| 2916281173 | Allegory | literary work in which charaters, settings, and events stand for other people/events/ideas on a one-for-one basis (i.e. Animal Farm, Dante's Inferno) | 0 | |
| 2916281174 | Alliteration | Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other | 1 | |
| 2916281175 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 2 | |
| 2916281176 | Analogy | A comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things. | 3 | |
| 2916281177 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 4 | |
| 2916283159 | Anecdote | A story or brief episode told by the writer or a character to illustrate a point. | 5 | |
| 2916283160 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 6 | |
| 2916284759 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction (i.e. liberty, love) | 7 | |
| 2916352444 | Ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods | 8 | |
| 2916354559 | Epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | 9 | |
| 2916356459 | Euphemism | A polite or vague word or phrase used to replace another word or phrase that is thought of as too direct or rude. | 10 | |
| 2916356460 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 11 | |
| 2916358219 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 12 | |
| 2916358220 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality (verbal, situational, and dramatic) | 13 | |
| 2916361092 | Malapropism | an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. | 14 | |
| 2916377031 | Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as. | 15 | |
| 2916377032 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). | 16 | |
| 2916379613 | Neologism | a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses | 17 | |
| 2916379614 | Non-Sequitur | Latin for "it does not follow." When one statement isn't logically connected to another | 18 | |
| 2916387845 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 19 | |
| 2916387846 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 20 | |
| 2916387847 | Palindrome | any word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward | 21 | |
| 2916387848 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 22 | |
| 2916387849 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 23 | |
| 2916390744 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 24 | |
| 2916390745 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 25 | |
| 2916392660 | Similie | A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" | 26 | |
| 2916392661 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 27 | |
| 2916395126 | Synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels") | 28 | |
| 2916398248 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. | 29 |
