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4369611246allegorydeliberate correlation to historical reference or character archetypes0
4369615584ambiguityboth1
4369615585apostropheaddressing an absent entity2
4369619346connotationassociated meanings to words3
4369622731conventiontypical, trope4
4369622732denotationnon-associated meanings to words5
4369635303didacticpreach-y, fable-y6
4369638205digressionto go off topic7
4369638206epigrama quote from a source in a source8
4369640746euphemismpositive expression of something not so nice9
4369643004eulogygood words10
4369643005grotesquenasty, gross, dark11
4369644656hyperboleexaggeration12
4369644657jargonslang, buzzwords, vocabulary typically associated with a niche of people13
4369649863literalreally, actually occuring14
4369659653lyricalrhythmic, poetic, with emotion15
4369665075oxymoroncombined opposite16
4369665076parablestory that teaches a lesson (ex Bible)17
4369666995paradoxcontradiction that conveys a truth18
4369669340parodymaking fun of something19
4369669341personificationinanimate things with qualities of a human20
4369674983reliabilitytrusting the narrator's words21
4369677572rhetorical questiondesigned to make a good point, has one answer22
4369681915soliloquysingle speaker23
4369681916stereotypeoversimplified description of something24
4369697432syllogism3 part logical structure25
4369712814thesismain statement26
4369712853alliterationrepetition of the same sound (consonants)27
4369727468assonancerepetition of vowel sound28
4369736074ballad meter8-6-8-6 meter (syllables)29
4369741568dactylpatterns of three30
4369743666end stoppedhard stop at the end of a rhyme (period, semicolon)31
4369747514free verseno regular pattern32
4369747515heroic couplettwo lines that rhyme33
4369749671hexametertwelve syllables34
4369751283iambunstressed followed by stressed35
4369752815internal rhymerhyme in same line36
4369765216onomatopoeiawords to describe a sound effect37
4369765217rhyme royal7 line stanzas of iambic pentameter38
4369768001sonnet14 line poem with various rhyme schemes39
4369870297stanzaverse in a poem40
4369870298terza rimalines in pairs of 341
4369872546tetrameter8 syllables42
4369876066antecedentbefore a pronoun43
4369877939clausesubject-verb pairing44
4369880087ellipsisleaving out words45
4369880088imperativeauthoritative command46
4369882523modifywhen one word relates to another one47
4369885488parallel structurerepetition of a grammatical form48
4369887091periodic structuremain clause is at end of sentence49
4369894286syntaxthe arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences50

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