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| 2743724587 | homily | a sermon on a moral or religious topic | 0 | |
| 2743724588 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 1 | |
| 2743724589 | imagery | use of words to create images | 2 | |
| 2743724590 | inference | a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning | 3 | |
| 2743724591 | invective | venomous language use to express blame | 4 | |
| 2743724592 | irony | using a word or situation opposite of its literal meaning | 5 | |
| 2743724593 | euphemism | a mild term substituting for a harsher term | 6 | |
| 2743724594 | extended metaphor | a metaphor used throughout a long passage or poem | 7 | |
| 2743724595 | figurative language | language that contains or uses figure of speech | 8 | |
| 2743724596 | figures of speech | expressions with imaginative comparisons | 9 | |
| 2743724597 | genre | a class or category | 10 | |
| 2743724598 | characterization | description | 11 | |
| 2743724599 | connotation | implied or associative meaning of a word | 12 | |
| 2743724600 | denotation | most direct or specific meaning if a word or expression | 13 | |
| 2743724601 | conflict | to come into disagreement or collision | 14 | |
| 2743724602 | diction | word choice | 15 | |
| 2743724603 | didactic | instructive | 16 | |
| 2743724604 | caricature | exaggerated representation of a person | 17 | |
| 2743724605 | clause | a group of words with both a subject and a verb | 18 | |
| 2743724606 | cliché | a trite plot etc. | 19 | |
| 2743724607 | colloquial | informal language | 20 | |
| 2743724608 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor | 21 | |
| 2743724609 | atmosphere | the medium at a given place | 22 | |
| 2743724610 | antagonist | character who opposes the protagonist | 23 | |
| 2743724611 | archetype | prototype | 24 | |
| 2743724612 | ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be song and us both lyric and narrative in nature | 25 | |
| 2743724613 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 26 | |
| 2743724614 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | 27 | |
| 2743724615 | antithesis | balancing 2 opposing ideas | 28 | |
| 2743724616 | aphorism | expressing a general truth or idea using a rhyme or balance | 29 | |
| 2743724617 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that addresses absence | 30 | |
| 2743724618 | alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words | 31 | |
| 2743724619 | allusion | a recognizable reference | 32 | |
| 2743724620 | ambiguity | multiple meanings | 33 | |
| 2743724621 | analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 34 | |
| 2745490793 | asydenton | commas used to seperate a series of words | 35 | |
| 2745490794 | chiasmus | a statement in which the second part is structurally reversed | 36 | |
| 2745490795 | foil | a character opposite of the main character or same as the protagonist | 37 | |
| 2745490796 | allegory | story in which characters are used as symbols | 38 | |
| 2745490797 | cacophony | loud and unpleasant | 39 | |
| 2745490798 | euphony | pleasing sound | 40 | |
| 2745490799 | voice | an author's general attitude toward the world | 41 | |
| 2745490800 | absolutes | a word free from limitations or qualifications | 42 | |
| 2745490801 | denouement | final scene or chapter where clarifications are made | 43 | |
| 2745490802 | deux ex machina | plot device where conflict is solved through a mean unrelated to the story | 44 | |
| 2745490803 | refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song | 45 | |
| 2745490804 | hubris | refers to excessive pride that leads to a hero's downfall | 46 | |
| 2745490805 | elegy | a mournful poem | 47 | |
| 2745490806 | epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 48 | |
| 2745490807 | lyric poem | a short poem of songlike quality | 49 | |
| 2745490808 | epistolary | novels written in letters between characters | 50 | |
| 2745490809 | free verse | poetry that avoids regular rhyme or meter patterns | 51 | |
| 2745490810 | Caesura | pauses or breaks in poetry | 52 | |
| 2745490811 | end stopped | Having a pause at the end of each line | 53 | |
| 2745490812 | enjambled | the continuation of meeting, without pause throughout poem | 54 | |
| 2745490813 | litotes | understatement | 55 | |
| 2745490814 | juxtaposition | act of two things being put together with contrasting effect | 56 | |
| 2745490815 | loose/non-periodic sentence | a sentence that continues with one or more subordinate clauses or modifiers after its main clause | 57 | |
| 2745490816 | metaphor | figure of speech in which one thing is equated with another | 58 | |
| 2745490817 | meter | rhythmic pattern in a poem | 59 | |
| 2745490818 | metonymy | substituting the name of one objects for another object closely associated | 60 | |
| 2745490819 | mood | the emotional atmosphere at work | 61 | |
| 2745490820 | motif | Standard theme, element, or dramatic work that recurs in various works | 62 | |
| 2745490821 | narrative | a story or narrated account | 63 | |
| 2745490822 | onomatopoeia | use of word that imitates sounds | 64 | |
| 2745490823 | oxymoron | an expression in which two words contradict each other are joined | 65 | |
| 2745490824 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that contains truth | 66 | |
| 2745490825 | parallelism | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 67 | |
| 2745490826 | paratactic sentence | a literary technique that favors short simple sentence with coordinating conjunctions | 68 | |
| 2745490827 | parody | humorous imitation of serious work | 69 | |
| 2745490828 | pedantic | excessive display of learning or scholarships | 70 | |
| 2745490829 | periodic sentence | a complex sentence in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 71 | |
| 2745490830 | periphrasis | The use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing | 72 | |
| 2745490831 | polysyndeton | the use of several conjuctions in close succession | 73 | |
| 2745490832 | personification | giving human characteristics to animals or nonhuman objects | 74 | |
| 2745490833 | point of view | the vantage point from which a story it told | 75 | |
| 2745490834 | quatrain | a stanza having four lines especially one having alternate rhymes | 76 | |
| 2745490835 | prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | 77 | |
| 2745490836 | rhetoric | art of presenting ideas in a clear and persuasive manner | 78 | |
| 2745490837 | sarcasm | use of irony to mock | 79 | |
| 2745490838 | satire | use of humor to emphasize human weakness or imperfections | 80 | |
| 2745490839 | soliloquy | an extended speech where a character expresses his thoughts | 81 | |
| 2745490840 | semantics | the study of meaning | 82 | |
| 2745490841 | style | combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 83 | |
| 2745490842 | subject complement | the adjective noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb | 84 | |
| 2745490866 | subordinate clause | a clause dependent on a main clause | 85 | |
| 2745490867 | syllogism | a three part argument in which a conclusion is based on a major and minor premise | 86 | |
| 2745490868 | symbol | an object that is used to represent something else | 87 | |
| 2745490869 | synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object | 88 | |
| 2745490870 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another | 89 | |
| 2745490871 | syntax | manner in which words are arranged into sentences | 90 | |
| 2745490872 | theme | universal meaning of work | 91 | |
| 2745490873 | thesis | a central idea of work | 92 | |
| 2745490874 | tone | attitude of a writer | 93 | |
| 2745490875 | transition | a passage that connects a topic to another | 94 | |
| 2745490876 | understatement | ironic minimalizing of a flat | 95 | |
| 2745490877 | wit | mental sharpness | 96 | |
| 2745490878 | tricolon | a series of three parallel words phrases or clauses | 97 | |
| 2745490879 | vernacular | language or dialect spoken by the ordinary person in a particular country or region | 98 | |
| 2745490880 | anaphora | repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 99 |
