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| 4872114403 | Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 0 | |
| 4872128918 | Chiasmus | In poetry a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. | 1 | |
| 4872156305 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. | 2 | |
| 4872162341 | Didactic | Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 3 | |
| 4872206437 | Epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme | 4 | |
| 4872507241 | Mood | an atmosphere created by a writers diction and he details selected | 5 | |
| 4872509737 | Motif | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the the current situation to the previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. | 6 | |
| 4872643517 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 7 | |
| 4872944547 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. | 8 | |
| 4872950712 | Parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writers style. | 9 | |
| 4872953458 | Periodic | a sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements. | 10 | |
| 4872962305 | Third Person Limited | an unknown narrator, tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. | 11 | |
| 4872971203 | Omniscient Point of View | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters. | 12 | |
| 4872983013 | Polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas to separate the items in a series. | 13 | |
| 4872992418 | Quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered a unit. | 14 | |
| 4872998723 | Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. | 15 | |
| 4873003301 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked for effect, and not actually requiring an answer. | 16 | |
| 4873006724 | Satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change. | 17 | |
| 4873012060 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. | 18 | |
| 4873297940 | Regionalism | literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in that region. | 19 |
