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| 6000584852 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities | 0 | |
| 6000612386 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
| 6000634921 | Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature etc.) | 2 | |
| 6000619751 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 3 | |
| 6000625820 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 4 | |
| 6000651943 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual | 5 | |
| 6000660606 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story | 6 | |
| 6000664006 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 7 | |
| 6000669859 | Aphorism | Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. | 8 | |
| 6000676618 | Apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personifies abstract idea. If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called invocation | 9 | |
| 6000690173 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 10 | |
| 6000695644 | Cliche | is a word or phrase, often a figure os speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. | 11 | |
| 6000700964 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor | 12 | |
| 6000704537 | Connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word of phrase, in addition to it's strict dictionary definition | 13 | |
| 6000712373 | Couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 14 | |
| 6000719480 | Diction | a speaker or writers choice os words | 15 | |
| 6000721886 | Elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died | 16 | |
| 6000725597 | Epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. ie: "Father of our country" | 17 | |
| 6000734304 | Farce | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations | 18 | |
| 6000754187 | Figurative Language | Words in which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. ie: Similes and Metaphors | 19 | |
| 6000761183 | Flashback | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time | 20 | |
| 6000770916 | Foil | a character who acts as contracts to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero | 21 | |
| 6000781388 | Foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot | 22 | |
| 6000786331 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. "If I've told you once I've told you a million times" | 23 | |
| 6000792184 | Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience | 24 | |
| 6000797623 | Inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase | 25 | |
| 6000801572 | Irony | a discrepancy between appearances and reality | 26 | |
| 6000807145 | Verbal Irony | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else | 27 | |
| 6000809024 | Situational Irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happens | 28 | |
| 6000817870 | Dramatic Irony | is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but that audience or reader knows better | 29 | |
| 6000828176 | Juxtaposition | Device in which normally unassociated ides, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit | 30 | |
| 6000835135 | Lyric Poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker | 31 | |
| 6000842887 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, an, than, or resembles | 32 | |
| 6000907018 | Extended Metaphor | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it | 33 | |
| 6000909251 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. ie: "We asked for the support of the crown to fund us." - the crown being the monarchy | 34 | |
| 6000909252 | Mood | an atmosphere created by a writers diction and the details selected | 35 | |
| 6000909253 | Motif | a reoccurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author) unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme | 36 | |
| 6000909254 | Onomatopea | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense ie: "pop" "zap" | 37 | |
| 6000911389 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. ie: "pretty ugly" | 38 | |
| 6000911390 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that revels a certain kind of truth | 39 | |
| 6000913110 | Parallel Structure | (parallelism) the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 40 | |
| 6000914408 | Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 41 | |
| 6000915928 | Pun | a "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single world or on words that sound alike but mean different things | 42 | |
| 6000915929 | Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in the poem | 43 | |
| 6000915930 | Rhythum | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language | 44 | |
| 6000917926 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer | 45 | |
| 6000919219 | Satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change | 46 | |
| 6000920679 | Simile | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles | 47 | |
| 6000920680 | Soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play whole no other characters are on stage | 48 | |
| 6000923135 | Style | a distinctive way in which a writer uses language ie: diction, tone, syntax | 49 | |
| 6000923136 | Symbol | a person, place, or event that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something more thanitself | 50 | |
| 6000924510 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole | 51 | |
| 6000926309 | Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work | 52 | |
| 6000926310 | Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization | 53 | |
| 6000927696 | Understatement | a statement that says less than what is meant | 54 |
