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| 3912003883 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. | 0 | |
| 3912010697 | 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.). | 1 | |
| 3912015381 | Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called maxim, epigram. | 2 | |
| 3912029685 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. | 3 | |
| 3912040914 | Didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 4 | |
| 3912049723 | Explication | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 5 | |
| 3912053136 | Foil | A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero. | 6 | |
| 3912056314 | Foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. | 7 | |
| 3912061226 | Hypotactic | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them. | 8 | |
| 3912064480 | Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. | 9 | |
| 3912069030 | Juxtaposition | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit. | 10 | |
| 3912073162 | Litotes | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form. | 11 | |
| 3912077572 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch. | 12 | |
| 3912085875 | Motif | a recurring 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. Kurt Vonnegut uses "So it goes" throughout Slaughterhouse-Five to remind the reader of the senselessness of death. | 13 | |
| 3912087576 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 14 | |
| 3912090333 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. | 15 | |
| 3912094436 | Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. | 16 | |
| 3912100781 | Polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series. Instead of X, Y, and Z... Polysyndeton results in X and Y and Z... | 17 | |
| 3912104622 | Satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change. | 18 | |
| 3912107002 | Stereotype | a fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality, often based on religious, social, or racial prejudices. | 19 | |
| 3912109864 | Syndoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." The wheels represent the entire car. | 20 | |
| 3912113085 | Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work. | 21 | |
| 3912113086 | 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. | 22 | |
| 3912121791 | Understatement | a statement that says less than what is meant. | 23 | |
| 3912126618 | Periodic | sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements. | 24 |
