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| 9611072652 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 9611085692 | Alliteration | Repetition of sounds, especially in a row "bleed blue" | 1 | |
| 9611100082 | Allusion | reference back to something presumably well known(bible) | 2 | |
| 9611142896 | Ambiguity | multiple meanings, intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentance or passage | 3 | |
| 9611192730 | Analogy | similarity or comparison between two different things | 4 | |
| 9611206368 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. | 5 | |
| 9611268256 | Anecdote | A short story about a real indecent or person | 6 | |
| 9611280069 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 7 | |
| 9611331526 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship, which expresses a general truth or moral principle; can be a memorable summation of the author's point. | 8 | |
| 9611419928 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. | 9 | |
| 9611437403 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 10 | |
| 9611450512 | Atmosphere | emotional mood of a literary work | 11 | |
| 9611465099 | colloquialism | slang or informalities in writing | 12 | |
| 9611480478 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between dissimilar objects. | 13 | |
| 9611728604 | connotative | non literal meaning of a word | 14 | |
| 9611771170 | denotation | literal meaning of a word | 15 | |
| 9611779681 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 16 | |
| 9611797788 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 17 | |
| 9611807773 | Extended Metaphor | metaphor that reoccurs throughout a literary work | 18 | |
| 9611829376 | Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 19 | |
| 9611969099 | figure of speech | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | 20 | |
| 9611976498 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration or overstatement | 21 | |
| 9612007810 | imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 22 | |
| 9612116904 | verbal irony | the words literally state the opposite of the writer's (or speaker's) true meaning. | 23 | |
| 9612125258 | situational irony | events turn out the opposite of what was expected. | 24 | |
| 9612127689 | dramatic irony | facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but is known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work. | 25 | |
| 9612169101 | juxtaposition | Putting two different ideas, things, and/or images side-by-side to compare and contrast. | 26 | |
| 9612202860 | litotes | form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite | 27 | |
| 9612215226 | loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 28 | |
| 9612224583 | metaphor | figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. | 29 | |
| 9612237645 | metonymy | figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. | 30 | |
| 9612258398 | mood | grammatical and deals with verbal units and a speaker's attitude. | 31 | |
| 9612287213 | narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 32 | |
| 9613375456 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 33 | |
| 9613383728 | oxymoron | figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. | 34 | |
| 9613400045 | paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 35 | |
| 9613401895 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 36 | |
| 9613413047 | parody | work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 37 | |
| 9613427100 | periodic sentence | sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 38 | |
| 9613488350 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 39 | |
| 9613494465 | first-person narrator | tells the story with the first-person pronoun, "I" | 40 | |
| 9613521830 | second-person narrator | a narrator who tells a story using "you" | 41 | |
| 9613534724 | third-person narrator | a narrator who tells the story using "he/she/they" | 42 | |
| 9613549092 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 43 | |
| 9613565429 | prose | refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms, because they are written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech. | 44 | |
| 9613582003 | pun | either plays on multiple meanings of a word or replaces one word with another that is similar in sound but very different in meaning. | 45 | |
| 9613594353 | repetition | duplication, either extract or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 46 | |
| 9613643911 | rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 47 | |
| 9613647314 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 48 | |
| 9613650690 | sarcasm | involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. | 49 | |
| 9613680830 | satire | work that targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions, for reform or ridicule. | 50 | |
| 9613685256 | simile | comparison using like or as | 51 | |
| 9613721414 | symbol/symbolism | anything that represents itself and stands for something else | 52 | |
| 9613723619 | synechdote | a part of something that represents the whole | 53 | |
| 9613732046 | syntax | sentence structure | 54 | |
| 9613733461 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 55 | |
| 9613735299 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 56 | |
| 9613810227 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 57 |
