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| 6551251091 | Diction | word choice, creates tone | 0 | |
| 6551272457 | Diction | Calling someone "cute" instead of good looking | 1 | |
| 6551384062 | Formal Diction | Contains language that creates an elevated tone. | 2 | |
| 6551384063 | Informal Diction | the relaxed, conversational language that we use every day. Used to address a familiar audience such as family or friends. | 3 | |
| 6551386479 | Denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word. | 4 | |
| 6551394888 | Abstract | a summary of the contents of a book, article, or formal speech. | 5 | |
| 6551394889 | Concrete | specific detail. | 6 | |
| 6551399331 | Archaic Language | Words and phrases that were used regularly in a language, but are now less common. Ex: thou, thy | 7 | |
| 6551399332 | Literal Language | Means exactly what it says. | 8 | |
| 6551409590 | Figurative Language | Uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different. | 9 | |
| 6613193032 | Figure of speech | A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect. | 10 | |
| 6613273363 | metaphorical | characteristic relating to metaphor; figurative. | 11 | |
| 6613273364 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 12 | |
| 6613274561 | extended metaphor | when an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked, tenors, and grounds throughout a poem or story. | 13 | |
| 6613274562 | simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. | 14 | |
| 6613276039 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 15 | |
| 6613276040 | analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 16 | |
| 6613278092 | extended | enlarged or stretched | 17 | |
| 6613279117 | overstatement | the action of expressing or stating something too strongly; exaggeration. | 18 | |
| 6613279824 | hyberpole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 19 | |
| 6613279825 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 20 | |
| 6613281519 | paradox | a statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time. | 21 | |
| 6613281520 | irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 22 | |
| 6613283311 | situational irony | a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 23 | |
| 6613284383 | dramatic irony | which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character | 24 | |
| 6613284384 | verbal irony | when words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean. mostly sarcastic | 25 | |
| 6613285606 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. | 26 | |
| 6613286922 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 27 | |
| 6613287956 | metaphysical conceit | more intricate and intellectual device. It usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. | 28 | |
| 6613287957 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant. Ex: Suit for business executive. | 29 | |
| 6613288964 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. | 30 | |
| 6613288965 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language. | 31 | |
| 6613290234 | Visual | relating to seeing or sight. | 32 | |
| 6613290235 | Auditory | relating to the sense of hearing. | 33 | |
| 6613292150 | Olfactory | sense of smell. | 34 | |
| 6613292151 | Gustatory | sense of taste. | 35 | |
| 6613293308 | Tactile | sense of touch. | 36 | |
| 6613293309 | Kinesthetic | tactile learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the students carrying out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching demonstrations. | 37 | |
| 6613294365 | Syntax | the way you style a sentence. | 38 | |
| 6613294366 | Inversion | the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted. | 39 | |
| 6613295311 | Parallelism/parallel structure | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning. | 40 | |
| 6613295312 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 41 | |
| 6613309468 | Polysyndeton | literary technique in which conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed. | 42 | |
| 6613309469 | Anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition. | 43 | |
| 6613310437 | Anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | 44 | |
| 6613310438 | Loose sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. | 45 | |
| 6613312173 | Periodic sentence | has the main clause or predicate at the end. Is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. Creates suspense. | 46 | |
| 6613312174 | Passive voice | noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence. | 47 | |
| 6613313095 | SVO | noun, Linguistics. a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish. | 48 | |
| 6613313096 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation. | 49 | |
| 6613315204 | Mood | a temporary state of mind or feeling. | 50 |
