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| 7325974220 | anachronism | a person, scene, event, etc. that does not correspond to the time period of the overall work | 0 | |
| 7325979771 | antithesis | a rhetorical opposition or contract of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement | 1 | |
| 7325984857 | aphorism | a short, blunt statement of generally accepted truth | 2 | |
| 7325993520 | bathos | the use of insincere or overdone sentimentality | 3 | |
| 7325998958 | bombast | inflated, pretentious language | 4 | |
| 7326001638 | cacophony | grating, inharmonious sounds | 5 | |
| 7326006844 | deus ex machina | a gimmick to solve a problem e.g. a "cheap" ending | 6 | |
| 7326015692 | empathy | a feeling of association or identification with an object or person | 7 | |
| 7326034523 | euphemism | a mild or less negative usage of a harsh or blunt term e.g. "pass away" for "death" or "alternative facts" for "lies" | 8 | |
| 7326045483 | genre | a term used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, essay, etc. | 9 | |
| 7326050872 | hubris | the excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death | 10 | |
| 7326057257 | in medias res | a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some critical moment | 11 | |
| 7326063133 | kenning | a device in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which a name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities e.g. "whale-road" for "ocean" | 12 | |
| 7326075860 | litotes ("light-oh-tease") | a form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity e.g. "He is not a bad dancer" | 13 | |
| 7326090181 | non sequitur | a statement or idea that fail to follow logically from the one before it | 14 | |
| 7326096052 | paraphrase | a version of a text put into simpler, everyday words | 15 | |
| 7326099617 | pulp fiction | novels written for mass consumption | 16 | |
| 7326105556 | trope | blanket term for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, metaphor, etc. | 17 |
