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| 12819445112 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 0 | |
| 12819449558 | Surrealism | An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images | 1 | |
| 12819451881 | serendipitous | occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way | 2 | |
| 12819456453 | spurned | reject with disdain or contempt | 3 | |
| 12819459413 | ambivalence | the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes | 4 | |
| 12819462254 | permanence | the state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely. | 5 | |
| 12819463993 | foreboding | a feeling that something bad will happen | 6 | |
| 12819466128 | countenance | a person's face or facial expression | 7 | |
| 12819468994 | behoove | be appropriate or necessary | 8 | |
| 12819481686 | Transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 9 | |
| 12819485488 | Gothic | of the middle ages; of or relating to a mysterious, grotesque, and desolate style of fiction | 10 | |
| 12819495592 | Vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 11 | |
| 12819497507 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 12 | |
| 12819513082 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 13 | |
| 12819517158 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 14 | |
| 12819519342 | Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 15 | |
| 12819521045 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 16 | |
| 12819525943 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 17 | |
| 12819529014 | Monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group. | 18 | |
| 12819552007 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 19 | |
| 12819572387 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 20 | |
| 12819574529 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 21 | |
| 12819579972 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 22 | |
| 12819585364 | cliche | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. | 23 | |
| 12819587169 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 24 |
