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| 13921686695 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 13921686696 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 13921689125 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 2 | |
| 13921691972 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 3 | |
| 13921699759 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 4 | |
| 13921708390 | Climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point | 5 | |
| 13921708391 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 6 | |
| 13921710863 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 7 | |
| 13921714282 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 8 | |
| 13921720622 | Ellipsis | three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation | 9 | |
| 13921727516 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 10 | |
| 13921731838 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 11 | |
| 13921734336 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 12 | |
| 13921740938 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 13 | |
| 13921744388 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 14 | |
| 13921747758 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 15 | |
| 13921749703 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 16 | |
| 13921754773 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 17 | |
| 13921760096 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 18 | |
| 13921762665 | Rhythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. | 19 | |
| 13921762666 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 20 | |
| 13921765888 | sililoquy | a speech when a character is alone on a stage and expresses thoughts aloud | 21 | |
| 13921773447 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 22 | |
| 13921776770 | Trope | a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression | 23 | |
| 13921781964 | Zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 24 |
