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| 4829945792 | Alliteration | Repeated sounds at beginning of word (peter piper...) | 0 | |
| 4829945793 | Allusion | Reference to other work or story (biblical, historical, cultural) | 1 | |
| 4829945794 | Ambiguity | Intentionally vague (end of S & S) | 2 | |
| 4829945795 | Analogy | 2 stories that reflect a similarity (yellow wallpaper- Gilman's life) | 3 | |
| 4829945796 | Allegory | Has a hidden meaning (S & S) | 4 | |
| 4829945797 | Antagonist | Represents opposition | 5 | |
| 4829945798 | Anecdote | Short, amusing story about a real person/incident | 6 | |
| 4829945799 | Anastrophe | Change in syntax | 7 | |
| 4829945800 | Anaphora | Repeated word or phrase at beginning of a sentence | 8 | |
| 4829945801 | Massogonistic | Anti-feminist | 9 | |
| 4829945802 | Diction | Word choice | 10 | |
| 4829945803 | Tone | Emotional value of language | 11 | |
| 5346318055 | Antithesis | The opposition of contrast of idea; opposite | 12 | |
| 5346318056 | Aphorism | A moral truth of unknown authorship | 13 | |
| 5346318057 | Apostrophe | Address to an absent or personified abstraction ("O life!") | 14 | |
| 5346318058 | Colloquial | Familiar tone including local dialects | 15 | |
| 5346318059 | Conceit | An extended metaphor or surprising an analogy | 16 | |
| 5346318060 | Didactic | Teaching, especially a moral principle | 17 | |
| 5346318061 | Euphemism | 'Earthly remains' rather than 'corpse' | 18 | |
| 5346318062 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement | 19 | |
| 5346318063 | Irony | Verbal, situational, dramatic | 20 | |
| 5346318064 | Litotes | Ironic understatement (affirmitive expressed by not negative - 'you won't be sorry) | 21 | |
| 5346318065 | Jargon | Words or phrases used by a profession or group that are difficult for other to understand | 22 | |
| 5346318066 | Pedantic | Like a pendant (long)--over concerned with literal accuracy (trivial) | 23 | |
| 5346318067 | Bombastic | High sounding but with little meaning (politician w/ empty promises) | 24 | |
| 5346318068 | Abstruse | Difficult to understand (deep and intellectually challenging) | 25 | |
| 5346318069 | Esoteric | Intended for or only understood by people with specific knowledge or interest (reference shirts) | 26 | |
| 5375325741 | Caesura | a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence // (medial, initial, terminal) | 27 | |
| 5375325742 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures (inverted) | 28 | |
| 5375325743 | Appositive | Two nouns placed side by side, one identifies the other (Bob the Builder) | 29 | |
| 5375325744 | Metonymy | replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated ("pen is mightier than the sword") | 30 | |
| 5375325745 | Synecdoche | Uses a part of something to identify the whole ("wheels" = car, "grey beard" = old dude) | 31 | |
| 5396221716 | Couplet | 2 lines of verse-same meter, usually joined by rhyme | 32 | |
| 5396221717 | Epanalepsis | Repeating the initial word or words of a sentence or clause at the end of that same sentence or clause "The king is dead, long live the king!" | 33 | |
| 5396221718 | Free verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 34 | |
| 5396221719 | Blank verse | un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables/ line, stressed, unstressed) "Two households, both alike in dignity" | 35 | |
| 5396221720 | Lyric poem | the mood is musical and emotional. The writer uses words that express his state of mind, his perceptions, or his feelings (emotional, rhyming) | 36 | |
| 5442729696 | Anadiplosis | second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause (or phrase) | 37 | |
| 5442729697 | Anachronism | An error in time (mentions/depicts something inappropriate for the time or place) | 38 | |
| 5442729698 | Cacophony | use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results (jaberwocky) | 39 | |
| 5442729699 | Euphony | use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create | 40 | |
| 5442729700 | Archaic | used phrase or word is considered very old fashioned and outdated (thou, stoppeth) | 41 | |
| 5466825618 | Ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner | 42 | |
| 5466825619 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 43 | |
| 5466825620 | Narrative | a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. (Nar: prose, balled: poem) | 44 | |
| 5466825621 | Pastoral | Country life | 45 | |
| 5466825622 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ). | 46 | |
| 5466825623 | Idyllic | Deals with country (characters ) | 47 | |
| 5720734400 | Bathos | Anti climax (serious to ridiculous) | 48 | |
| 5720734401 | Motif | Reoccurring/dominant idea | 49 | |
| 5720734402 | Paradox | Seems wrong at first but holds (some) truth | 50 | |
| 5720734403 | Oxymoron | Jumbo shrimp | 51 | |
| 5720734404 | Quatrain | 4 lines of poem (stanza) linked in rhyme (usually) | 52 | |
| 5720734405 | Juxtaposition | Placed together to highlight opposites | 53 | |
| 5721083465 | Sarcasm | Pretty much 90% of the things you say | 54 | |
| 5721083466 | Enjambment | Suspension over multiple lines (poetry) | 55 | |
| 5721083467 | Epiphany | Revelation, understanding, idea | 56 | |
| 5721083468 | Bowdlerize | To omit offensive parts of a text | 57 | |
| 5721083469 | Hamartia | Fatal flaw | 58 | |
| 5721083470 | Catharsis | Drive audience towards change (using negative examples) | 59 | |
| 5721083471 | Protagonist | Good guy | 60 | |
| 5721083472 | Antagonist | Bad guy | 61 | |
| 5721083473 | Parallelism | use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter (easy come, easy go) | 62 | |
| 5721083474 | Trope | Figurative or metaphorical language | 63 | |
| 5721083475 | Syntactic unit | Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.) | 64 | |
| 5721083476 | Diatribe | Forceful, verbal attack | 65 | |
| 5721083477 | Ellipsis | the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues. | 66 | |
| 5721083478 | Ambivalence | ... | 67 | |
| 5721083479 | Anaphora | ... | 68 | |
| 5721083480 | Deconstruction | Critical analysis of literary language | 69 | |
| 5721083481 | Denouement | Final part- plot comes together, things explained or resolved (full circle) | 70 | |
| 5721083482 | Mood | ... | 71 | |
| 5721083483 | Archetype | Literary example of a certain type of person (creon) | 72 | |
| 5721083484 | Primal archetype | Human need for certain stories, or type of person | 73 | |
| 5721083485 | Parody | Mocking for humor | 74 | |
| 5721083486 | Satire | Mocking to critique | 75 | |
| 5721083487 | Farce | Comic, dramatic work--humor drawn from absurdity | 76 | |
| 5721083488 | Periphrasis | Indirect speech, typically unnecessarily long | 77 | |
| 5721083489 | Refrain | Repeating the end (miles to go before I sleep) | 78 | |
| 5721083490 | Scansion | Scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 79 | |
| 5721083491 | Dialect | Form of language particular to a region or social group | 80 | |
| 5721083492 | Homily | Religious discourse (sermon) | 81 | |
| 5721083493 | Anastrophe | Noun and adjective switched (yoda speech) | 82 | |
| 5721083494 | Atecedent | Noun the pronoun refers to | 83 | |
| 5721083495 | Caricature | Exaggerating a certain characteristic for comedic effect | 84 | |
| 5721083496 | Style | Distinctive method of writing | 85 |
