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| 10572160504 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 0 | |
| 10572162085 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 11163685331 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 2 | |
| 11163689637 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order | 3 | |
| 11163693072 | Antithesis | Direct opposite | 4 | |
| 10572169607 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 5 | |
| 10572164004 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 6 | |
| 11163702768 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 7 | |
| 11163705787 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 8 | |
| 10572175494 | Conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 9 | |
| 11163714097 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 10 | |
| 10359192721 | Diction | word choice | 11 | |
| 11163718585 | Dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 12 | |
| 11163720676 | Ethos | credibility | 13 | |
| 11207171530 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 14 | |
| 10572131885 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. | 15 | |
| 10572166225 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 16 | |
| 10572173486 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 17 | |
| 10572123108 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 18 | |
| 10572144521 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 19 | |
| 11207206818 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 20 | |
| 11207212209 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 21 | |
| 10572135235 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 22 | |
| 11207226298 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 23 | |
| 11207234910 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 24 | |
| 10572164005 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 25 | |
| 10572149613 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | 26 | |
| 10572142672 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 27 | |
| 10572151392 | parallel construction | successive sentences or phrases follow the same pattern of wording in order to emphasize and idea | 28 | |
| 11207276416 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 29 | |
| 10572139656 | Personification | the attribution of human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 30 | |
| 11207290701 | Perspective | point of view | 31 | |
| 11207297888 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 32 | |
| 10572169606 | Repetition | Repeating a word, phrase, or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect | 33 | |
| 10572155142 | Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 34 | |
| 10572158504 | Rhythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 35 | |
| 10572137747 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 36 | |
| 11207325694 | Situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 37 | |
| 10572126061 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract | 38 | |
| 11207336552 | Syndeton | phrase whose parts are joined by a conjunction | 39 | |
| 11207339550 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 40 | |
| 10572123107 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 41 | |
| 10572160505 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 42 |
