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| 9203865461 | didactic | explicitly instructive | 0 | |
| 9203865462 | ambiguity | multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate, especially when two meanings are incompatible | 1 | |
| 9203865463 | euphemism | a figure of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness | 2 | |
| 9203868003 | jargon | the specialized language of a profession or group | 3 | |
| 9203868004 | parable | a story designed to suggest a principle, to illustrate a moral, or to answer a question | 4 | |
| 9203871364 | allegory | a story in which the people, things, and events have another extended, frequently abstract, meaning | 5 | |
| 9203871365 | parody | a composition that imitates the style of another composition, normally done for comic effect | 6 | |
| 9203871366 | digression | the inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work | 7 | |
| 9203876011 | epigram | a pithy saying, often employing contrast. Often in verse form, brief and pointed | 8 | |
| 9203876012 | denotation | the specific, literal meaning of a word to be found in a dictionary, as opposed to connotation | 9 | |
| 9203881813 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration, overstatement | 10 | |
| 9203885294 | oxymoron | a combination or juxtaposition of opposites; a union of contradictory terms | 11 | |
| 9203885295 | reliability | a quality of some fictional narrators in whose word the reader can place his trust | 12 | |
| 9203885296 | personification | a figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics | 13 | |
| 9203889748 | paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contradictory but is, in fact, true | 14 | |
| 9203889749 | literal | the precise, explicit meaning; accurate to the letter; a matter of fact | 15 | |
| 9203889750 | convention | a device of style or subject matter that is used so often that it becomes a recognized means of expression | 16 | |
| 9203889751 | connotation | the implications of a word or phrase or the emotions associated with it | 17 | |
| 9203895285 | apostrophe | direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present | 18 | |
| 9203895286 | soliloquy | a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud | 19 | |
| 9203895287 | lyrical | songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination | 20 | |
| 9203898341 | syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | 21 | |
| 9203898342 | stanza | a repeated grouping of three or more lines, usually with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 22 | |
| 9203898343 | sonnet | a poem written in iambic pentameter, normally composed of fourteen lines | 23 | |
| 9203900802 | grotesque | characterized by distortions or incongruities | 24 | |
| 9203900803 | onomatopia | the use of words whose very sound suggests their actual meaning | 25 | |
| 9203900804 | alliteration | the repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | 26 | |
| 9203904521 | stereotype | a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea | 27 | |
| 9203904522 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 28 | |
| 9203904523 | rhetorical question | a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply | 29 | |
| 9203907279 | banal | overused, obvious | 30 | |
| 9203907280 | propriety | acceptable manners | 31 | |
| 9203907281 | nebulous | vague, hazy | 32 | |
| 9203910352 | nefarious | evil | 33 | |
| 9203910353 | bellicose | hostile | 34 | |
| 9203910370 | nemesis | rival | 35 | |
| 9203916102 | lugubrious | looking / sounding sad | 36 | |
| 9203916103 | admonish | warn | 37 | |
| 9283307980 | allusion | reference in a work of literature to something outside the work | 38 | |
| 9283314590 | pentameter | a line containing five feet. It is the most common line used in English verse that was written before 1950. | 39 | |
| 9283316948 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter - it is the meter of most of Shakespeare's plays | 40 | |
| 9283316949 | irony | a figure of speech in which the intended meaning and the actual meaning differ, characteristically using praise to indicate blame or using blame to indicate praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning | 41 | |
| 9283316950 | iamb | a two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. It is the most common foot in English poetry. | 42 | |
| 9283319361 | diction | word choice | 43 | |
| 9283319362 | dactyl | a metrical foot of three syllables, including an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables | 44 | |
| 9283320942 | syntax | the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence | 45 | |
| 9283320943 | tetrameter | a line of four feet | 46 | |
| 9283324114 | thesis | the theme, meaning, or position that a writer endeavors to prove or support. | 47 |
