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| 8472931577 | allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 8472931578 | alliteration | It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. |  | 1 |
| 8472931579 | allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 2 | |
| 8472931584 | anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order |  | 3 |
| 8472931585 | antithesis | A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses. |  | 4 |
| 8472931586 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. |  | 5 |
| 8472931587 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 6 | |
| 8472931591 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. |  | 7 |
| 8472931595 | connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |  | 8 |
| 8472931600 | denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |  | 9 |
| 8472931601 | diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |  | 10 |
| 8472931602 | didactic | Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson |  | 11 |
| 8472931604 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant |  | 12 |
| 8472931615 | genre | A category or type of literature (or of art, music, etc.) characterized by a particular form, style, or content. |  | 13 |
| 8472931620 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 14 |
| 8472931622 | imagery | Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. |  | 15 |
| 8472931623 | irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. |  | 16 |
| 8472931628 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts |  | 17 |
| 8472931629 | kenning | A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities. |  | 18 |
| 8472931630 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. |  | 19 |
| 8472931632 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 20 | |
| 8472931643 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 21 |
| 8472931646 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |  | 22 |
| 8472931647 | parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other |  | 23 |
| 8472931648 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. |  | 24 |
| 8472931652 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 25 |
| 8472931661 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer |  | 26 |
| 8472931668 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 27 |
| 8472931673 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 28 |
| 8472931674 | syntax | Arrangement of words in phrases and sentences |  | 29 |
| 8472931676 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. |  | 30 |
| 8472931677 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |  | 31 |
| 8474034967 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 32 | |
| 8474048551 | Italian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (such as cde cde or cdc dcd) — called also Petrarchan sonnet. | 33 | |
| 8474057617 | English Sonnet | Also Known as Elizabethan Sonnet; a type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. | 34 | |
| 8474068552 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 35 | |
| 8474082290 | Laudatory | (of speech or writing) expressing praise and commendation. | 36 | |
| 8474093235 | consonance | refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession, such as in "pitter, patter." | 37 |
