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| 7011566837 | Colloquial | Of or relating to slang or regional dialect, used in familiar everyday conversation | 0 | |
| 7011566838 | Meiosis | the use of understatement to highlight a point or explain a situation or to understate a response used to enhance the effect of a dramatic moment | 1 | |
| 7011566839 | Metaphysical Poets | a term coined by the poet and critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of English lyric poets of the 17th century, whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by speculation about topics such as love or religion. These poets were not formally affiliated; most of them did not even know one another or read one another's work | 2 | |
| 7011566840 | Mock Heroic | imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject. | 3 | |
| 7011566841 | Romanticism | a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual | 4 | |
| 7011566842 | Abstruse | Difficult to in penetrate | 5 | |
| 7011566843 | Acerbic | Sour or bitter in taste | 6 | |
| 7011566844 | Articulation | The manner in which things come together and are connected | 7 | |
| 7011566845 | Contentious | Showing an inclination to disagree | 8 | |
| 7011566846 | Erudite | Having or showing profound knowledge | 9 | |
| 7011566847 | Esoteric | Understandable only by an enlightened inner circle | 10 | |
| 7011566848 | Grotesque | Distorted and unnatural in shape or size | 11 | |
| 7011566849 | Inane | Devoid of intelligence | 12 | |
| 7011566850 | Indignant | Angered at something unjust or wrong | 13 | |
| 7011566851 | Pedantic | Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning | 14 | |
| 7011566852 | Perturbation | The act of causing disorder | 15 | |
| 7011566853 | Sanguine | Confidently optimistic and cheerful | 16 | |
| 7011566854 | Sensuous | Taking delight in beauty | 17 | |
| 7011566855 | Somber | Grave or even gloomy in character | 18 | |
| 7011566856 | Temperate | Not extreme | 19 | |
| 7011566857 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. Example: In cliches: sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy. | 20 | |
| 7011566858 | Allusion | A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature | 21 | |
| 7011566859 | Antecedent | The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers. | 22 | |
| 7011566860 | Antithesis | A concept that is directly opposed to a previously presented idea. | 23 | |
| 7011566861 | Apostrophe | An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 24 | |
| 7011566862 | Assonance | The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same | 25 | |
| 7011566863 | Austere | Of stern or strict bearing or demeanor | 26 | |
| 7011566864 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 27 | |
| 7011566865 | Euphemistic | Substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one | 28 | |
| 7011566866 | Euphony | Euphony refers to the quality of being pleasant to listen to. Euphony generally comes about through a harmonious combination of sounds and words. An author can create euphony in many different ways, such as using pleasant vowel and consonants, or by employing other literary devices, such as rhythm, rhyme, consonance, and assonance to create an overall harmonious sound to a work of literature. | 29 | |
| 7011566867 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous). | 30 | |
| 7011566868 | Hyperbole | Use of specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect | 31 | |
| 7011566869 | Lugubrious | Excessively mournful | 32 | |
| 7011566870 | Lyric Poetry | Originally a composition meant for musical accompaniment. The term refers to a short poem in which the poet, the poet's persona, or another speaker expresses personal feelings. | 33 | |
| 7011566871 | Metaphor | Makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics | 34 | |
| 7011566872 | Motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. | 35 | |
| 7011566873 | Parallelism | Also known as parallel structure; a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure | 36 | |
| 7011566874 | Personification | A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings | 37 | |
| 7011566875 | Purpose | a person's reason for writing, such as to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade. | 38 | |
| 7011566876 | Syntax | The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 39 | |
| 7011566877 | Theme | a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly | 40 |
