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| 7431487660 | in medias res | Starting a storyin the middle of a situation ex: story opens with people running from dragon | 0 | |
| 7431487661 | Litotes (understatement) | Positive statement expressed by negating the expression Ex: you are not doing badly at all | 1 | |
| 7431487662 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break (Line of poetry that doesn't end with a form of punctuation) | 2 | |
| 7431487663 | extended metaphor | comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences | 3 | |
| 7431487664 | Versimilitude | the appearance of being true or real Ex: parallels between magical wizard infinity world & traditional English boarding school in Harry Potter | 4 | |
| 7431487665 | stock characters | standard or cliched character types: the drunk, the miser, the foolish girl, etc. | 5 | |
| 7431487666 | Chiasmus | Used in oratory & literature. A sentence/ phrase where words are repeated in reverse order Ex: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country | 6 | |
| 7431487667 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing, recurrent symbol or motif, has to do with stock character | 7 | |
| 7431487668 | Aphorism | A concise statement of a truth or principle Ex: If you snooze, you lose | 8 | |
| 7431487669 | circumlocution | using too many words; long-windedness, especially in an attempt to seem vague | 9 | |
| 7431487670 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true, may have a deeper meaning Ex: a wise fool | 10 | |
| 7431487671 | deus ex machina | A sudden solution to a hopeless problem, usually an impossible concept or a divine character introduced into storyline with purpose of resolving its conflict | 11 | |
| 7431487672 | Synthesize | Figurative language that appeals to multiple sense Ex: the sun was silent, a loud color, Synesthesia, mango shaped space | 12 | |
| 7431487673 | Metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant Ex: the White House in place of the President or others who work there | 13 | |
| 7431487674 | Farce | Comedy that entertains through exaggerated comedy Ex: Seinfeld | 14 | |
| 7431487675 | Asyndenton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. Ex: "He eats,sleeps,drinks" as opposed to "he eats and sleeps and drinks." | 15 | |
| 7431487676 | Synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object Ex: weary feet in the walk of life | 16 | |
| 7431487677 | Zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses or to two others of which it semantically suits only one Ex: with weeping eyes & hearts | 17 | |
| 7431487678 | Epithet | Characterizing word/phrase Ex: a dog is a man's best friend | 18 | |
| 7431487679 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self confidence | 19 | |
| 7431487680 | Juxtaposition | The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect, can show irony Ex: chaos versus civilization & good versus bad | 20 | |
| 7555863432 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. extreme exaggeration | 21 | |
| 7555863433 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | 22 | |
| 7555863434 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 23 | |
| 7555863435 | Apostrophe | The speaker or author breaking off and speaking to an imaginary person. | 24 | |
| 7555863436 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 25 | |
| 7555863437 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 26 | |
| 7555863438 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. | 27 | |
| 7555863439 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 28 | |
| 7555863440 | Metaphysical conceit | Points out an unusual parallel between highly dissimilar elements | 29 |
