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| 5231092379 | Alliteration | multiple words used in quick succession that use the same sound group at the beginning | 0 | |
| 5231096439 | Allusion | when an author refers to another subject matter but leaves it up to the reader to make the connection | 1 | |
| 5231108263 | Epitaph | a written tribute in memory of a person | 2 | |
| 5231110586 | Assonance | repetition of the same vowel sound throughout multiple words in the same sentence | 3 | |
| 5231116316 | Metaphor | a comparison of two things that points out a similar trait | 4 | |
| 5231121133 | Personification | giving human traits to non-human objects | 5 | |
| 5231133708 | Simile | a comparison of two things that point out similar trait using the words "as", "such as" or "like" | 6 | |
| 5231206042 | Hyperbole | using words and phrases as a way to exaggerate emotions by saying something that is not really practical or probabel | 7 | |
| 5231219226 | Situational Irony | something happens that we wouldn't expect to happen ie. a fire station burns down | 8 | |
| 5231232570 | Dramatic Irony | the reader knows something that the characters do not | 9 | |
| 5231234645 | Verbal Irony | what is said is different than what is meant | 10 | |
| 5231237320 | Rhyming couplet | two lines that rhyme at the end | 11 | |
| 5231239219 | Metonymy | referring to something, not by it's name but by naming an object or quality closely associated with it | 12 | |
| 5231250834 | Litotes | ironical understatements in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (double negative) | 13 | |
| 5231256725 | Paradox | a situation, person or thing that combines contradicting features or qualities | 14 | |
| 5231313398 | Synechdoche | representing a whole with just a part of part(s) | 15 | |
| 5231319818 | Foil | shows a contrast in order to show the extremities of each part (character Edger + Edmund) Used to show opposite sides of the spectrum | 16 | |
| 5231461315 | Poetic Justice | an ideal form of justice in which the good characters are rewarded and the bad characters are punished by an ironic twist of their fate. | 17 |
