8424617822 | alliteration | Several words that begin with the same sound repeated in succession | 0 | |
8424621580 | allusion | an indirect reference to another literary work | 1 | |
8424624880 | anaphora | beginning successive clauses with the same sound | 2 | |
8424629695 | antithesis | juxtaposing two opposite statements in one sentence | 3 | |
8424634974 | diction | the usage of more complex word choice | 4 | |
8424642107 | enjambment | continuing a sentence after a line break or stanza break in a poem | 5 | |
8424646936 | end-stop | punctuating a clause at the end of a line | 6 | |
8424652486 | frame narrative | telling a story from the perspective of another character (a story within a story) | 7 | |
8424678110 | hyperbole | exaggerated description for emphasis | 8 | |
8424681595 | iambic pentameter | five sets of unstressed-stressed syllable groups | 9 | |
8424685259 | kenning | compound expression to describe an object or person | 10 | |
8424689460 | objectification | describing an animate object as something inanimate | 11 | |
8424693950 | onomatopoeia | describing a non-verbal sound using the Roman alphabet | 12 | |
8424701866 | personification | describing an inanimate object as animate | 13 | |
8424706610 | satire | mildly making fun of a serious topic | 14 | |
8424709294 | soliloquy | speaking thoughts aloud, typically in a play | 15 | |
8424712113 | sonnet | a fourteen-line poem consisting of 3 quatrains and a couplet | 16 | |
8424716726 | syntax | the structure and ordering of a sentence | 17 | |
8424723131 | understatement | intentionally presenting something as smaller, worse, or less important than it really is | 18 | |
8424727208 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem consisting of five tercets and a quatrain | 19 |
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