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| 4088216012 | alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together (mean manager) | 0 | |
| 4088219327 | allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture --> indirect reference to someone | 1 | |
| 4088223347 | ambiguity | deliberately suggesting 2 or more different/conflicting meanings in a work | 2 | |
| 4088225509 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or some sentences in a row | 3 | |
| 4088230014 | anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence | 4 | |
| 4088231032 | anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something | 5 | |
| 4088237452 | antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 6 | |
| 4088242555 | apostrophe | calling out to an abstract idea "oh rose!" | 7 | |
| 4088251174 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are different | 8 | |
| 4088254439 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 9 | |
| 4088256465 | elegy | poem of mourning | 10 | |
| 4088258883 | epigraph | quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme | 11 | |
| 4088262075 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration for effect... I am so hungry I could eat a horse. | 12 | |
| 4088264637 | juxtaposition | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas are placed next to each other | 13 | |
| 4088268434 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase "pretty ugly" | 14 | |
| 4088272615 | onomatopoeia | use of words whose sounds echo their sense "zap" | 15 | |
| 4088274923 | motif | recurring image, word, phrase, action or situation used throughout a work | 16 | |
| 4088279084 | parable | short story that teaches moral | 17 | |
| 4088279675 | paradox | a statement that appears self contradictory but reveals truth | 18 | |
| 4088283633 | personification | figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts & attitudes | 19 | |
| 4088287134 | rhetoric | art of effective communication--> persuasive discourse | 20 | |
| 4088289305 | satire | type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring change | 21 | |
| 4088297449 | assonance | focuses on vowel sounds in a phrase and repeats them for effect.... "Men sell the wedding bells." | 22 | |
| 4088299771 | irony | figure of speech that uses a word in a literal sense that debunks what has been said | 23 | |
| 4088303154 | simile | two things compared but not really the same with word "like" | 24 | |
| 4088304694 | metaphor | two things compared but not really the same | 25 | |
| 4088305127 | metonymy | one word has similar meaning can be used for another "The Oval Office was busy in work. ("The Oval Office" stands for people at work in the office.)" | 26 | |
| 4088308055 | synecdoche | one thing is made to represent a whole "ABC's", "lend a hand" | 27 | |
| 4088308919 | antithesis | contradiction that pits 2 ideas against each other in a balanced way | 28 | |
| 4088310692 | euphemism | words that are used to soften the message "passed away" | 29 | |
| 4088316165 | syntax | way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses and sentences | 30 | |
| 4088319850 | denotation | strict definition of a word | 31 | |
| 4088320775 | connotation | associative meaning of a word: the applied/suggested meaning | 32 | |
| 4358764019 | consonance | repetition of a pattern with changes in the intervening vowels.. pitter patter" or in "all mammals named Sam are clammy" | 33 | |
| 4358777352 | litotes | intentional understatement... "They do not seem the happiest couple around." | 34 | |
| 4358906555 | sonnet | fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which employ one of several rhyme schemes and adhere to a tightly structured thematic organization .. ABOUT LOVE | 35 |
