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| 8058042314 | apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 0 | |
| 8058049622 | connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning | 1 | |
| 8058049623 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 2 | |
| 8058054012 | ekphrasis | the poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words | 3 | |
| 8058061476 | epigram | A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. | 4 | |
| 8058064646 | extended figure | A figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | 5 | |
| 8058064647 | figurative language | Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally | 6 | |
| 8058068348 | figure of speech | Broadly, any way of saying something other that the ordinary way; more narrowly a way of saying one thing and meaning another | 7 | |
| 8058068349 | juxaposition | Positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast | 8 | |
| 8058070801 | metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike | 9 | |
| 8058070802 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience | 10 | |
| 8058074731 | onomatopoeia | The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound | 11 | |
| 8058074732 | personification | A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept | 12 | |
| 8058078805 | rhythm | Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 13 | |
| 8058078806 | sentimentality | Unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality | 14 | |
| 8058078807 | simile | A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems | 15 | |
| 8058083538 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. | 16 | |
| 8058083539 | syntax | Word organization and order | 17 |
