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| 7738552836 | Mood | an atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected. | 0 | |
| 7738566068 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. | 1 | |
| 7738571882 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 2 | |
| 7738596363 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals the kind of truth. | 3 | |
| 7738606179 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures. | 4 | |
| 7738616233 | Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. | 5 | |
| 7738633842 | Quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. | 6 | |
| 7738641805 | Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. | 7 | |
| 7738659947 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer. | 8 | |
| 7738681586 | Rhythm | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. | 9 | |
| 7738688967 | Simile | a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, than, or resembles. | 10 | |
| 7738706058 | Situational Irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy between is expected to happen or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. | 11 | |
| 7738722744 | Soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage. | 12 | |
| 7738739204 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. | 13 | |
| 7738746196 | Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work. | 14 | |
| 7738752336 | Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization. | 15 | |
| 7738771911 | Verbal Irony | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else. | 16 |
