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| 7445106106 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 0 | |
| 7445111058 | Connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic defenition; a word's overtones of meaning | 1 | |
| 7445117670 | Denotation | The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 7445123084 | Ekphrasis | The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words | 3 | |
| 7445134612 | Epigram | A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation; a concise, clever, often paradoxical statement | 4 | |
| 7445160831 | Extended figure | A figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | 5 | |
| 7445205220 | Conceit | An extended metaphor | 6 | |
| 7445207513 | Figurative language | Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 7 | |
| 7445213066 | Figure of speech | Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another | 8 | |
| 7445223097 | Juxtaposition | Positioning of opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast | 9 | |
| 7445228041 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | 10 | |
| 7445233587 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience | 11 | |
| 7445238109 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (e.g. boom, click, plop) | 12 | |
| 7445248317 | Personification | A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, object, or concept | 13 | |
| 7445251154 | Rhythm | Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 14 | |
| 7445253476 | Sentimentality | Unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality | 15 | |
| 7445263498 | Simile | A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike; it is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as "like", "as", "than", "similar to", "resembles", or "seems" | 16 | |
| 7445286015 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole ("all hands on deck") | 17 | |
| 7445289776 | Syntax | Word organization and order | 18 |
