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| 9850950024 | Allegory | A story or poem with two levels of meaning: literal and symbolic. In this type of story, almost every character, item, action, etc. is symbolic. | 0 | |
| 9850950025 | Alliteration | When several words in close proximity begin with the same consonant sound | 1 | |
| 9850950026 | Allusion | A reference to another text, event, or historical/literary figure | 2 | |
| 9850950027 | Anaphora | When the first few words of successive sentences or lines of poetry are the same |  | 3 |
| 9850988050 | Antithesis | Literally means opposite, rhetorical device in which 2 opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 4 | |
| 9850950029 | Apostrophe | Figure of speech used to address something which can not respond back | 5 | |
| 9850950030 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in words which appear close to one another in a poem or passage | 6 | |
| 9850950036 | Connotation | The secondary meanings of a word, including their emotional connections | 7 | |
| 9850950039 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word | 8 | |
| 9850950041 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 9 | |
| 9850950042 | Verbal irony | A figure of speech in which there is a difference between what is said and what is meant | 10 | |
| 9850950043 | Dramatic irony | A type of irony in which the audience or reader knows more than a character knows | 11 | |
| 9850950044 | Situational irony | A type of irony which occurs when there is a difference between expectation and reality | 12 | |
| 9850950045 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 13 | |
| 9850950046 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is closely associated with it | 14 | |
| 9850950047 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 15 | |
| 9850950048 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 16 | |
| 9850950049 | Paradox | A statement which seems to contradict itself but actually reveals a truth | 17 | |
| 9850950050 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 18 | |
| 9850950060 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else | 19 | |
| 9850950061 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole | 20 | |
| 9850950065 | Understatement | The deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is | 21 | |
| 9850950075 | Diction | An author's word choice | 22 | |
| 9850950077 | Foreshadowing | Hints or clues about what is to come later in a work of literature | 23 | |
| 9850950078 | Foil | Two characters with opposing traits whose purpose is to highlight each others' differences | 24 | |
| 9851007230 | Chiasmus | 2/+ clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures to produce artistic effect. (Ex. fair is foul, foul is fair) | 25 | |
| 9851013909 | Euphenism | Substitution of inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit | 26 | |
| 9851020674 | Litotes | Figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | 27 | |
| 9851026302 | Oxymoron | In which incongruous/contradictory terms appear side by side | 28 | |
| 9851033277 | Pun | Play on words, sometimes on difference sense of the same word and sometimes on similar sense or sound of different words | 29 | |
| 9851039999 | Simile | Stated comparison usually formed with like or as | 30 |
