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6616999828DiacopeUninterrupted repetition, or repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase. Typically, the purpose of diacope is to show strong emotion.0
6616999829DictionThe choice of a particular word as opposed to others.1
6617001409DidacticWorks that often have morals to impart or are written to teach us something about religion, philosophy, history, or politics.2
6617001410EnumeratioA figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something.3
6617003097ExpletiveA word or phrase that does not contribute any meaning but is added only to fill out a sentence or a metrical line.4
6617003098EuphemismUsing a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one.5
6617004560ExpositionThe use of authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail.6
6617004561Extended Metaphorrefers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.7
6617004562Figurative LanguageA deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect8
6617006130Figure of SpeechA scheme or a trope used for rhetorical or artistic effect9
6617006131Generic Conventionsa category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content10
6617007568GenreA type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions.11
6617007569HomilyA sermon, or a short, exhortatory work to be read before a group of listeners in order to instruct them spiritually or morally.12
6617007570Hyperbolethe trope of exaggeration or overstatement.13
6617009275Hypophoraa figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question14
6617009276ImageryA common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature.15
6617011167Inference / Infera literary device used commonly in literature and in daily life where logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true.16
6617011168InvectiveSpeech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution, usually involving negative emotional language.17
6617013635Irony / Ironicthe use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning18
6617015311JuxtapositionThe arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development.19

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