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| 9771907256 | Allegory | Narrative with multiple levels of meaning | 0 | |
| 9771913354 | Allusion | A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference | 1 | |
| 9771944314 | Anaphora | Repetition of words at start of successive clauses | 2 | |
| 9771970594 | Antithesis | Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words | 3 | |
| 9772003437 | Aphorism | Concise statement designed to make a point/illustrate commonly held belief | 4 | |
| 9772081593 | Apostrophe | Concise statement designed to make a point/ illustrate commonly held belief | 5 | |
| 9772128783 | Assonance | Repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds | 6 | |
| 9772150371 | Asyndeton | Style where conjunctions are omitted | 7 | |
| 9772176524 | Attitude | Tones, voice/mood of writing | 8 | |
| 9772211007 | Begging the question | Ploy where the arguer sides steps question/conflict, evading/ignoring question | 9 | |
| 9772259667 | Canon | That which has been accepted as authentic | 10 | |
| 9772268808 | Claim | An assertion of something as a fact | 11 | |
| 9772277376 | Colloquial | Ordinary language | 12 | |
| 9772290167 | Conceit | Prolonged comparison of two unlikely things | 13 | |
| 9772303913 | Connotation | Meaning suggested by by a word apart from its denotation, or explicit definition | 14 | |
| 9788830339 | Consonance | Repetition of two or more consonants | 15 | |
| 9788843418 | Convention | Accepted manner, model, or tradition | 16 | |
| 9788859221 | Deductive reasoning | Argument in which specific statements are drawn from general principles | 17 | |
| 9788883145 | Dialect | Language or speech from a specific area | 18 | |
| 9788891026 | Diction | Specific word choice to persuade | 19 | |
| 9788901878 | Didactic | Containing instructive purpose or a lesson | 20 | |
| 9788919119 | Elegy | Poetic lament on death of a person | 21 | |
| 9788928308 | Epistrophe | Repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences | 22 | |
| 9788939920 | Epitaph | Praise for a dead person | 23 | |
| 9788963961 | Ethos | Appeal of text to credibility | 24 | |
| 9788975690 | Eulogy | Speech in praise of a deceased person | 25 | |
| 9788985492 | Euphemism | Kinder way to give unpleasant information | 26 | |
| 9788996482 | Expository | Explains its Meaning or purpose | 27 | |
| 9789009629 | Extended metaphor | Series of comparisons in a writing | 28 | |
| 9789020194 | Genre | Type or class of literature | 29 | |
| 9789028215 | Homily | Talk on moral or spiritual life | 30 | |
| 9789407809 | Inductive reasoning | Argument in which general convulsion are drawn from specific facts | 31 | |
| 9789442147 | Inference | Conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts/observation/data | 32 | |
| 9789457507 | Irony | Contrast between what is stated and what is meant | 33 | |
| 9789467318 | Jargon | Specialized/technical language of a trade, professional, or similar group | 34 | |
| 9789487136 | Juxtapostion | Location of one thing adjacent to another | 35 | |
| 9789495315 | Litote | Figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatemeant | 36 | |
| 9789521242 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which an attribite/ feature is used to name/ designate something | 37 | |
| 9789539049 | Oxymoron | Figure of speech combing two apparently contradictory elements, often humours | 38 | |
| 9789573036 | Paradox | Seemingly contradictory statement | 39 | |
| 9789577793 | Pathos | Element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow | 40 | |
| 9789592221 | Point of view | Relation of narrator/ author to subject | 41 | |
| 9789611103 | Prose | Ordinary form of written language, not poetry | 42 | |
| 9789622595 | Realism | Describing nature/life without idealization | 43 | |
| 9789644025 | Rebuttal/refutation | Countering of anticipated argument | 44 | |
| 9789656615 | Rhetorical question | Question asked for stylistic effect, answer not expected | 45 | |
| 9789669445 | Rhetoric | The art of using words to persuade | 46 | |
| 9789676459 | Sarcasm | Verbal irony in which "praise" is actually critical | 47 | |
| 9789693234 | Satire | Literary work that ridicules human failings | 48 | |
| 9789702921 | Style | Distinctive manner of expressiin | 49 | |
| 9789709737 | Symbolism | Element of literary work that figuratively stands for something else | 50 | |
| 9789732323 | Synecdoche | When a part is used to signify a whole | 51 | |
| 9789740548 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 52 |
