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| 5604515213 | Juxtaposition | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 0 | |
| 5604544053 | Parallel Structure | stylistic device, and a grammatical construction having two or more clauses, phrases or words, with similar grammatical form and length | 1 | |
| 5604552096 | Enjambment | moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark. | 2 | |
| 5604558380 | End Stop | when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. | 3 | |
| 5604585926 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "O". A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 4 | |
| 5604603293 | Circular Reasoning | a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. | 5 | |
| 5604609988 | 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 | |
| 5604617471 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 7 | |
| 5604628512 | Denouement | a literary device which can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. | 8 | |
| 5604639073 | Digression | several sudden interruptions in the main action of the story, which provides him background information, establish his interest, describe character's motivation and build suspense, etc. | 9 | |
| 5604659756 | Iambic Pentameter | a commonly used type of metrical line in traditional English poetry and verse drama. | 10 | |
| 5604671798 | Iambic Trimeter | a poetic device that is defined as a meter or a line that consists of three iambic feet. | 11 | |
| 5604697528 | Trochaic Trimeter | the opposite pattern of an iamb, and is comprised of stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 12 | |
| 5604724930 | Spondaic Tetrameter | a duple foot with two stressed syllables. | 13 | |
| 5604732541 | Dactyl | a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables (accented/unaccented/unaccented) in quantitative meter such as in the word "humanly." | 14 | |
| 5604748226 | Elegy | a form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. | 15 | |
| 5604765087 | Villanelle | as a poetic device which requires a poem to have 19 lines and a fixed form. It has five tercets (first 15 lines), a quatrain (last four lines), and a couplet at the end of the quatrain. | 16 | |
| 5604772097 | ode | a literary technique that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy. | 17 | |
| 5604781587 | 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 | 18 | |
| 5604786686 | soliloquy | popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character. | 19 | |
| 5604794748 | monologue | a literary device, which is the speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his/her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud. | 20 | |
| 5604816272 | direct address | the name of the person (normally) who is being directly spoken to. It is always a proper noun. | 21 | |
| 5604831070 | synecdoche | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 22 | |
| 5604834027 | metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. | 23 | |
| 5604839261 | couplet | a literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought. | 24 | |
| 5604845948 | spondee | a beat in a poetic line which consists of two accented syllables (stressed/stressed) or DUM-DUM stress pattern. | 25 | |
| 5604870603 | epitaph | a brief writing or saying. Epitaph is an inscription written on a grave. | 26 | |
| 5604881419 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. It is also used to illustrate an opinion or statement contrary to accepted traditional ideas. | 27 | |
| 5604890012 | understatement | a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is | 28 | |
| 5604892928 | parody | an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect. | 29 | |
| 5604900396 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. | 30 | |
| 5604912605 | logical fallacy | an erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention. | 31 | |
| 5604922038 | parable | a figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end. | 32 | |
| 5604927389 | allegory | a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. | 33 | |
| 5604932193 | invective | denotes speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution. It involves the use of abusive and negative use of language. | 34 | |
| 5604946997 | epigram | a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting and surprising satirical statement. | 35 | |
| 5604951814 | onomatopoeia | 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 | |
| 5604958043 | Cacophony | points to a situation where there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds. | 37 | |
| 5604964062 | internal rhyme | a poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other. | 38 | |
| 5604969309 | assonance | takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. | 39 | |
| 5604976628 | alliteration | "letters of alphabet". It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. | 40 | |
| 5604981844 | chiasmus | a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. | 41 |
