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| 4333368655 | Anaphora | In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 0 | |
| 4333374089 | Bathos | An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous. | 1 | |
| 4333385011 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. | 2 | |
| 4333390491 | Deus ex machina | The circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome. | 3 | |
| 4333391713 | Farce | A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. | 4 | |
| 4333394691 | Litotes | An ironical 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 | |
| 4333396654 | Non sequitur | Include the statements, sayings and conclusions that do not follow the fundamental principles of logic and reason. They are frequently used in theater and comedies to create comedic effects. | 6 | |
| 4333396655 | Parable | A figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end. | 7 | |
| 4333399011 | Stream of conciousness | A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. | 8 | |
| 4333400245 | Synesthesia | A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 9 | |
| 4333400246 | Trope | A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression. | 10 | |
| 4333402415 | Versimilitude | Likeness to the truth i.e. resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event even if it is a far-fetched one. | 11 | |
| 4333402416 | Sestina | A fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. | 12 | |
| 4333404254 | Villanelle | A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. | 13 | |
| 4333404255 | Anapest | A poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed as given in this line "I must finish my journey alone." Here the anapestic foot is marked in bold. | 14 | |
| 4333406100 | Caesura | A break between words within a metrical foot. | 15 | |
| 4333406101 | Aubade | A song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn. | 16 | |
| 4333408362 | Elegy | 17 | ||
| 4333408363 | Epigram | 18 | ||
| 4333409967 | Pastoral | 19 | ||
| 4333409968 | Conceit | 20 | ||
| 4333411854 | Refrain | 21 | ||
| 4333411855 | Shift | 22 | ||
| 4333414011 | Scansion | 23 |
