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| 5592885815 | Juxtaposition | The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 0 | |
| 5592896009 | Parallel Structure | Repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. | 1 | |
| 5592905746 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 2 | |
| 5592914847 | End Stop | An end-stopped line is a poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit. | 3 | |
| 5592920825 | Apostrophe | An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). | 4 | |
| 5592933365 | Circular Reasoning | A type of reasoning in which the proposition is supported by the premises, which is supported by the proposition, creating a circle in reasoning where no useful information is being shared. This fallacy is often quite humorous. | 5 | |
| 5592944727 | Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. | 6 | |
| 5592950965 | Hyperbole | Involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 7 | |
| 5592957254 | Denouement | A literary device which can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. | 8 | |
| 5592965904 | Digression | A stylistic device authors employ to create a temporary departure from the main subject of the narrative to focus on apparently unrelated topics, explaining background details. | 9 | |
| 5592970131 | Iambic Pentameter | A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity. | 10 | |
| 5592978244 | Trochaic Trimeter | Has the opposite pattern of an iamb, and is comprised of stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. | 11 | |
| 5593029180 | Spondaic Tetrameter | A line of four metrical feet. | 12 | |
| 5593039161 | Dactyl | A foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. | 13 | |
| 5593048773 | Elegy | A sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral, you might later compose to someone you have loved and lost to the grave. | 14 | |
| 5593021190 | Villanelle | A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 15 | |
| 5593077313 | Ode | A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | 16 | |
| 5593082329 | Free Verse | A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. | 17 | |
| 5593089993 | Soliloquy | A popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character. | 18 | |
| 5593094452 | Monologue | A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. | 19 | |
| 5593104378 | Direct Address | The name of the person (normally) who is being directly spoken to. | 20 | |
| 5593111253 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa. | 21 | |
| 5593117535 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. | 22 | |
| 5593128771 | Couplet | Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 23 | |
| 5594323731 | Spondee | A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. | 24 | |
| 5594444681 | Epitaph | A phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone. | 25 | |
| 5594455199 | Paradox | A statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time. | 26 | |
| 5594473961 | Understatement | A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. | 27 | |
| 5594699670 | Parody | An imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect. | 28 | |
| 5594713548 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. The common oxymoron phrase is a combination of an adjective proceeded by a noun with contrasting meanings. | 29 | |
| 5594717749 | Logical Fallacy | A pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system, for example propositional logic. An argument that is formally fallacious is always considered wrong. | 30 | |
| 5594740662 | Parable | A figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end. | 31 | |
| 5594754919 | Allegory | A narrative or description having a second or symbolic meaning beneath the surface one. | 32 | |
| 5594766381 | Invective | Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language. | 33 | |
| 5594771556 | Epigram | A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. | 34 | |
| 5594777623 | Blank Verse | A literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry and prose, it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line (pentameter). | 35 | |
| 5594792697 | Onomatopoeia | A word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting. | 36 | |
| 5594800594 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. | 37 | |
| 5594805031 | Internal Rhyme | A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 38 | |
| 5594812743 | Assonance | Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. | 39 | |
| 5594817189 | Alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. | 40 | |
| 5594823372 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. 'Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. | 41 | |
| 5706833191 | Caricature | A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. | 42 | |
| 5798318265 | Ambiguity | A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 43 | |
| 6121699158 | Foil | A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. | 44 | |
| 6121949148 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. | 45 | |
| 6121953690 | Caesura | A break between words within a metrical foot. | 46 | |
| 6121959926 | Tercet | A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet. | 47 | |
| 6121965457 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. | 48 | |
| 6121980054 | Magical Realism | Painting in a meticulously realistic style of imaginary or fantastic scenes or images. 2 : a literary genre or style associated especially with Latin America that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction. | 49 | |
| 6121988299 | Octave | A series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other. | 50 | |
| 6122004906 | Figurative Language | Words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating the facts as they are. | 51 | |
| 6122009231 | Pronoun Antecedant | Something that precedes something else. In language, it is the word that a pronoun refers back to. Since the pronoun replaces the noun, it has to agree in number. So, if the antecedent, or word that comes before, is singular, then the pronoun that takes its place must also be singular. | 52 | |
| 6122012868 | Analogy | A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 53 | |
| 6122017591 | Mixed Metaphor | A combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect (e.g., this tower of strength will forge ahead). | 54 | |
| 6122023269 | Bikini Kill. Honestly Keith? | An American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington, in October 1990. The group consisted of singer and songwriter Kathleen Hanna. | 55 | |
| 6122034597 | Objective Compliment | A noun or an adjective which follows the direct object renaming or modifying it. It is used with verbs like make, name, call, choose, elect, and appoint. | 56 | |
| 6122037509 | Predicate Nominative | A word that completes a copulative verb, such as son in the sentence Charlie is my son. | 57 | |
| 6122040815 | Appositive Modifier | A modifier that is placed next to some other word or phrase, and it is a synonym of or possible replacement for that other word or phrase. Most of the time, appositives are used as noun modifiers and contain nouns themselves. | 58 | |
| 6122049436 | Litotes | Ironic 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). | 59 | |
| 6122052923 | Euphemism | Mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 60 | |
| 6618106955 | Allusion | A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history. | 61 | |
| 6618111396 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting or humorous incident. | 62 | |
| 6618115245 | Artistic Unity | That condition of a successful literary work whereby all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose. | 63 | |
| 6618123163 | Euphony | The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. | 64 | |
| 6618126644 | Genre | A category of literary composition. | 65 | |
| 6618131493 | Imagery | An author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work. | 66 | |
| 6618137098 | Mood | A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. | 67 | |
| 6618140393 | Moral | A message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. | 68 | |
| 6618143743 | Prose | A form of language that has no formal metrical structure. | 69 | |
| 6618147126 | Theme | The central topic a text treats. | 70 | |
| 6618163422 | Tone | An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. | 71 | |
| 6618170528 | Topic | The subject of a speech, essay, thesis, or discourse. | 72 | |
| 6618180486 | Setting | The time and place in which the story takes place. | 73 | |
| 6618192808 | Symbol (Symbolism) | The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. | 74 | |
| 6618202499 | Verse | The literary device verse denotes a single line of poetry. | 75 |
