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| 8747652483 | Exposition | The opening section of a narrative or dramatic structure in which characters, setting, theme, and conflict can be revealed | 0 | |
| 8747664806 | Flashback | interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happened before that particular point in the story | 1 | |
| 8747677340 | Foreshadowing | a hint given to the reader of what is to come | 2 | |
| 8747683307 | Soliloquy | a dramatic convention that allows a character alone on stage to speak his or her thoughts aloud | 3 | |
| 8747692564 | Pun | a play on words; a humorous use of a word that has a different meaning or of two or more words with the same or nearly the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings | 4 | |
| 8747708867 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables or words | 5 | |
| 8747716933 | Chiasmus | A scheme in which the author introduces words or concepts in a particular order then later repeats those terms or similar ones in reversed or backwards order. It involves taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out, creating a "crisscross" system | 6 | |
| 8747747515 | Double Entendre | figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways (straightforward or risque/ironic) | 7 | |
| 8747763906 | Aside | in drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the soeakers words | 8 | |
| 8747781572 | Inversion | also called anastrophe, in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies a verb before its subject ("Came the dawn") | 9 | |
| 8747800221 | Syntax | the arrangement of words within a sentence | 10 | |
| 8747805484 | Dramatic Irony | refers to a situation in which some things are not known to a character on stage but another character or the audience or the reader know | 11 |
