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| 5603087953 | Allegory | Story/Poem in which characters, settings, events, stand for other ideas | 0 | |
| 5603100009 | Allusion | Reference to someone or something that is known from history or general culture | 1 | |
| 5603103995 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 2 | |
| 5603108630 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of two or more sentences in a row. This form of repetition makes the point more coherent. | 3 | |
| 5603119064 | Anastrophe | Fancy word for "Inversion." Messes with logical order of the parts of a sentence. | 4 | |
| 5603131806 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. "One should eat to live, not live to eat." | 5 | |
| 5603139039 | Antihero | Deadpool. | 6 | |
| 5603143010 | Anthropomorphism | Personification. | 7 | |
| 5603143011 | Aphorism | Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 8 | |
| 5603156866 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds. | 9 | |
| 5603167365 | Asyndeton | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, to emphasize each part equally: NOT "X, Y, and Z" - It's "X,Y,Z." | 10 | |
| 5603191609 | Chiasmus | Poetic version of an Antimetabole. | 11 | |
| 5603200483 | Colloquialism | Word/Phrase that is fine in casual conversation, but not in formal situations. | 12 | |
| 5603211083 | Conceit | Extended metaphor. | 13 | |
| 5603218439 | Couplet | Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry. | 14 | |
| 5603225262 | Didactic | Form of writing that teaches a specific lesson or moral. | 15 | |
| 5603232569 | Elegy | A poem of mourning. | 16 | |
| 5603240038 | Epanalepsis | Form of repetition in which the same expression (word or phrase) is repeated both at the start and end of the line, clause, or sentence. "Common sense is not so common" -Voltaire. | 17 | |
| 5603256474 | Epigraph | Quotation at the start of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | 18 | |
| 5603267207 | Epistrophe | Opposite of an Anaphora. The same expression or word is repeated at the END of two or more lines. | 19 | |
| 5603279209 | Foil | A character who acts a contrast to another. | 20 | |
| 5603296493 | Irony | A discrepancy between appearances and reality. | 21 | |
| 5603310036 | Verbal Irony | Occurs when someone says one thing but means another. | 22 | |
| 5603313706 | Situational Irony | When there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what is appropriate to happen, and what does occur. | 23 | |
| 5603320589 | Dramatic irony | A character says one thing is true, but the reader knows better. | 24 | |
| 5603330171 | Litotes | Form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form. "The wearers of petticoat... and wedging their NOT UNSUBSTANTIAL PERSONS, into the throng" | 25 | |
| 5603348411 | Lyric Poem | Does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings/thoughts of the speaker. | 26 | |
| 5603372842 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested assistance from the Crown." Crown = Monarch. | 27 | |
| 5603392373 | Motif | Recurring image, word, phrase, idea, etc., shown throughout a work (or several by the same author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones by use of this. | 28 | |
| 5603418399 | Periodic | Sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence. | 29 | |
| 5603431460 | Polysyndeton | Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series. Instead of "X, Y, and Z," it uses "X and Y and Z." | 30 | |
| 5603455308 | Quatrain | Poem consisting of four lines | 31 | |
| 5603465647 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech in which a part represents the whole, "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." Wheels = Car. | 32 |
