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| 7376790796 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words | 0 | |
| 7376799936 | Allusion | an indirect reference, often to a person, event, statement, theme, or work | 1 | |
| 7753808404 | Ambiguity | lack of clarity or uncertainty of meaning | 2 | |
| 7753811990 | Anaphora | the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. A type of parallelism | 3 | |
| 7753819872 | Antithesis | a rhetorical figure in which two ideas are directly opposed. For a truly anithetical statement, opposing ideas must be grammatically parallel. | 4 | |
| 7753829788 | Apostrophe | the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or absent, an imaginary or non-human entity, or a place or concept | 5 | |
| 7753841285 | Aside | in drama, a character addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling that is presumed inaudible to any other character in earshot | 6 | |
| 7753848004 | Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 7 | |
| 7753852862 | Asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions to create a concise, terse, and often memorable statement | 8 | |
| 7753895205 | Connotation | the associations evoked by a word beyond its denotation | 9 | |
| 7753903385 | Cacophony | harsh, unpleasant, or discordant sounds. The opposite of euphony | 10 | |
| 7753907419 | Caesura | a pause in a line of poetry | 11 | |
| 7753910779 | Consonance | the repetition of a final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words | 12 | |
| 7753917409 | Denotation | a word's literal meaning(s), independent of any connotations; the dictionary definition of a word | 13 | |
| 7753928332 | Enjambement | a poetic statement that spans more than one line | 14 | |
| 7753939774 | Euphony | pleasing, harmonious sounds. The opposite of Cacophony | 15 | |
| 7753942352 | Flashback | a scene that interrupts the present action of a narrative work to depict some earlier event-often one that occurred before the opening scene of the work- via reverie, remembrance, dreaming or some other mechanism. | 16 | |
| 7753961344 | Foreshadowing | introducing into a narrative material that prepares the reader or audience for future events, actions, or revelations | 17 | |
| 7753969097 | Hyperbole | use of deliberate, emphatic exaggeration, usually for comic or ironic effect. Some critics refer to it as overstatement. | 18 | |
| 7753976392 | Imagery | 1)The corpus of images or in a text 2)the language used to convey a visual picture 3)the use of figurative language, often to express abstract ideas in a vivid and innovative way | 19 | |
| 7754001662 | Invocation | a type of apostrophe involving an explicit request for aid in writing made to a supernatural entity | 20 | |
| 7754009955 | Litotes | making an affirmative point by negating its opposite ("That's not bad") | 21 | |
| 7754014765 | Metaphor | Associates two distinct things; the representation of one thing by another | 22 | |
| 7754026917 | Metonymy | One thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it | 23 | |
| 7754031382 | Onomatopoeia | wording that seems to signify meaning through sound effects | 24 | |
| 7754043123 | Oxymoron | Juxtaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to present an emphatic and dramatic paradox | 25 | |
| 7754064147 | Paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth | 26 | |
| 7754083551 | Paralipsis | the speaker's assertion that he or she will not discuss something that he or she, in fact, goes on to discuss | 27 | |
| 7754098059 | Periphrasis | a roundabout way of speaking or writing | 28 | |
| 7754101205 | Personification | human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman, from an abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism | 29 | |
| 7754113527 | Synaesthesia | a neurological condition or psychological process whereby one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. For example, to speak of a coal as "red hot" associates color (sight) with heat (touch) | 30 | |
| 7754127473 | Synecdoche | A part of something is used to represent the whole, or occasionally a whole is used to represent a part | 31 | |
| 7754137177 | Syntax | the arrangement-the ordering, grouping, and placement- of words within a phrase, clause, or sentence; one of the two components of diction (the other being vocab) | 32 | |
| 7754148943 | Tragic flaw | a character trait in a tragic hero or heroine that brings about his or her downfall | 33 | |
| 7754157239 | Zeugma | one word or phrase governs or modifies two or more words or phrases (Aaron lost his pants and his dignity) | 34 |
