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| 8003476567 | Irony- dramatic | a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character | 0 | |
| 8003476568 | Irony- situational | a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected | 1 | |
| 8003478519 | Irony- verbal | words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean | 2 | |
| 8003478520 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 3 | |
| 8003478627 | Leitmotif | a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation | 4 | |
| 8003481039 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad) | 5 | |
| 8003481040 | Metaphor- direct | a figure of speech that refers, for rhetorical effect, to one thing by mentioning another thing | 6 | |
| 8003483369 | Metaphor- extended | is when an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds throughout a poem or story | 7 | |
| 8003483370 | Metaphor- implied | a type of metaphor that compares two unlike things, but it does so without mentioning one of them. Instead, it implies the comparison by using a word or phrase that describes the unmentioned term | 8 | |
| 8003483371 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing | 9 | |
| 8003485963 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle) | 10 | |
| 8003485964 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ) | 11 | |
| 8003485965 | Paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 12 |
