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| 13640150681 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 0 | |
| 13640150682 | alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words | 1 | |
| 13640150683 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art | 2 | |
| 13640150684 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phase, sentence, or passage | 3 | |
| 13640150685 | anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned | 4 | |
| 13640150686 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 5 | |
| 13640150687 | anaphora | a sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences | 6 | |
| 13640150688 | anecdote | a short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or interesting event | 7 | |
| 13640150689 | antecedent | The word, phase, or clause referred to be a pronoun. | 8 | |
| 13640150690 | antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas | 9 | |
| 13640150691 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 10 | |
| 13640150692 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love | 11 | |
| 13640150693 | assonance | The use of similar vowel sounds in stresses syllables that end with different consonant sounds. | 12 | |
| 13640150694 | asyndeton | a form of verbal compression which consists of the omission of connecting words (usually conjunctions) between clauses. | 13 | |
| 13640150695 | atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described | 14 | |
| 13640150696 | caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. | 15 | |
| 13640150697 | chiasmus | The figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism | 16 | |
| 13640150698 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 17 | |
| 13640150699 | colloquial/ colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | 18 | |
| 13640150700 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects | 19 | |
| 13640150701 | connotation | The non-literal, associate meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning | 20 | |
| 13640150702 | consonance | The use at the ends of VERSES of words in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree, but the vowel sounds that precede them differ | 21 | |
| 13640150703 | denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color | 22 | |
| 13640150704 | diction | Related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness | 23 | |
| 13640150705 | didactic | From the Greek, meaning teaching | 24 | |
| 13640150706 | epigram | (1) An inscription in verse or prose on a building, tomb, or coin (2) A short verse or motto appearing at the beginning of a longer poem or the title page of a novel, at the heading of a new section or paragraph of an essay or other literary work to establish mood or raise thematic concerns (3) A short, humorous poem, often written in couplets, that makes a satiric point | 25 | |
| 13640150707 | epilogue | A conclusion added to literary work such as a novel, play, or long poem | 26 | |
| 13640150708 | epitaph | Refers literally to an inscription on a gravestone. In a more general sense, epitaph is the final statement spoken by a character before his death | 27 | |
| 13640150709 | epithet | A short, poetic nickname— often in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase— attached to the normal name | 28 | |
| 13640150710 | euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 29 | |
| 13640150711 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed a great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 30 | |
| 13640150712 | figurative language | Writings or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid | 31 | |
| 13640150713 | figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language | 32 | |
| 13640150714 | generic conventions | This term describes traditions for each genre | 33 | |
| 13640150715 | genre | The major category into which a literary work fits | 34 | |
| 13640150716 | homily | This term means "sermon", but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 35 | |
| 13640150717 | hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 36 | |
| 13640150718 | hypozeuxis | The use of a series of parallel clauses, each of which has a subject and a predicate, as in "I came, I saw, I conquered" | 37 | |
| 13640150719 | idiolect | The language or speech pattern unique to one individual at a particular period of his or her life | 38 |
