6616999828 | Diacope | Uninterrupted repetition, or repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase. Typically, the purpose of diacope is to show strong emotion. | 0 | |
6616999829 | Diction | The choice of a particular word as opposed to others. | 1 | |
6617001409 | Didactic | Works that often have morals to impart or are written to teach us something about religion, philosophy, history, or politics. | 2 | |
6617001410 | Enumeratio | A 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 | |
6617003097 | Expletive | A word or phrase that does not contribute any meaning but is added only to fill out a sentence or a metrical line. | 4 | |
6617003098 | Euphemism | Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one. | 5 | |
6617004560 | Exposition | The use of authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail. | 6 | |
6617004561 | Extended Metaphor | refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. | 7 | |
6617004562 | Figurative Language | A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect | 8 | |
6617006130 | Figure of Speech | A scheme or a trope used for rhetorical or artistic effect | 9 | |
6617006131 | Generic Conventions | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content | 10 | |
6617007568 | Genre | A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions. | 11 | |
6617007569 | Homily | A sermon, or a short, exhortatory work to be read before a group of listeners in order to instruct them spiritually or morally. | 12 | |
6617007570 | Hyperbole | the trope of exaggeration or overstatement. | 13 | |
6617009275 | Hypophora | a figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question | 14 | |
6617009276 | Imagery | A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. | 15 | |
6617011167 | Inference / Infer | a literary device used commonly in literature and in daily life where logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true. | 16 | |
6617011168 | Invective | Speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution, usually involving negative emotional language. | 17 | |
6617013635 | Irony / Ironic | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 18 | |
6617015311 | Juxtaposition | The 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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