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| 6668521899 | allusion | a reference to another story (literature, art, history, myth) |  | 0 |
| 6668532912 | Anadiplosis | a form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence. | 1 | |
| 6668521900 | anaphora | successive phrases or clauses that begin with the same words |  | 2 |
| 6668538538 | antithesis | the use of contrasting concepts, words, or sentences within parallel grammatical structures float like a butterfly sting like a bee | 3 | |
| 6668521902 | apostrophe | a direct address to an inanimate object or a person/character who is not present |  | 4 |
| 6668521905 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |  | 5 |
| 6668556053 | asyndeton | the omission of a conjunction such as "and" or "as" from a series of related clauses | 6 | |
| 6668560339 | aubade | a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone. | 7 | |
| 6668570060 | axiom | a universally accepted principle or rule | 8 | |
| 6668571056 | bildungsroman | a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. | 9 | |
| 6668574826 | Byronic Hero | Heathcliff- dark unknown past, extreme emotions, gothic elements | 10 | |
| 6668578172 | chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in "never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you." | 11 | |
| 6668586001 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation | 12 | |
| 6668521919 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 13 |
| 6668521935 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables |  | 14 |
| 6668521950 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 15 |
| 6668521954 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 16 |
| 6668521957 | octave | segment of poetry eight lines long |  | 17 |
| 6668521960 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 18 |
| 6668521976 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 19 |
| 6668521978 | sestet | segment of poetry six lines long |  | 20 |
| 6668521984 | stream of consciousness | private thoughts of a character without commentary |  | 21 |
| 6668521987 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 22 |
| 6668521988 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 23 |
| 6668521990 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 24 |
| 6668521995 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 25 |
| 6668521998 | polysyndenton | the use of more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary |  | 26 |
| 6668522000 | epistrophe | the repetition of words at the ENDS of successive phrases or clauses |  | 27 |
| 6668522002 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next |  | 28 |
| 6668522003 | conceit | an extended metaphor; an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things |  | 29 |
| 6668522005 | parallelism | successive lines of writing that follow the same grammatical structure |  | 30 |
