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| 8253467654 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 8253467655 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 8253467656 | allusion | indirect of passing reference |  | 2 |
| 8253467657 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 8253467659 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 4 |
| 8253467669 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 5 |
| 8253467672 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 6 |
| 8253467674 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 7 |
| 8253467675 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 8 |
| 8253467676 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 9 |
| 8253467677 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 10 |
| 8253467678 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 11 |
| 8253467679 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 12 |
| 8253467680 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 13 |
| 8253467681 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 14 |
| 8253467683 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 15 |
| 8253467684 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 16 |
| 8253467685 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 17 |
| 8253467686 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 18 |
| 8253467687 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 19 |
| 8253467688 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 20 |
| 8253467696 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 21 |
| 8253467699 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else |  | 22 |
| 8253467700 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 23 |
| 8253467702 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 24 |
| 8253467704 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis |  | 25 |
| 8253491092 | ad hominem argument | "to the man" attacks the person rather than the argument | 26 | |
| 8253501593 | ambiguity | multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional | 27 | |
| 8253508176 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 28 | |
| 8253510302 | antecedent | word, phrase, clause referred to by a pronoun | 29 | |
| 8253511873 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or principle | 30 | |
| 8253520366 | atmosphere | the emotional mood created by a literary work, established partly by setting, diction, imagery | 31 | |
| 8253530975 | clause | grammatical unit with a subject and verb. Independent clause is a complete sentence and a subordinate or dependent clause is reliant on an independent clause | 32 | |
| 8253532718 | colloquialism | slang or informal language in writing, often relating to local or regional dialects | 33 | |
| 8253533636 | conceit | a shocking (surprising) metaphor | 34 | |
| 8253541862 | diction | author's choice of words | 35 | |
| 8253543479 | didactic | language which is instructive, usually to teach a moral or principle | 36 | |
| 8253545847 | euphemism | nicer way to say something, replaces more offensive description | 37 | |
| 8253545848 | genre | Basic division a literary work fits into--drama, poetry, or prose | 38 | |
| 8253547167 | homily | sermon, but can refer to a serious talk | 39 | |
| 8253553991 | inference/infer | draw a reasonable conclusion to information provided | 40 | |
| 8253553992 | invective | describing language which is emotionally violent; a verbal attack | 41 | |
| 8253555737 | loose sentence | main idea as an independent clause comes first with subordinate clauses following to add detail | 42 | |
| 8253557772 | mood | 1) attitude an author has toward his subject matter or audience; 2) atmosphere of literary work | 43 | |
| 8253560021 | narrative | telling of a story as a series of events | 44 | |
| 8253565715 | parallelism | similar in construction or structure | 45 | |
| 8253565716 | pedantic | general tone which is overly scholarly | 46 | |
| 8253568155 | periodic sentence | main idea of the sentence comes at the end | 47 | |
| 8253570459 | predicate adjective | adjective (descriptor) which following a linking verb | 48 | |
| 8253573220 | predicate nominative | noun which renames the subject | 49 | |
| 8253573221 | prose | fiction/nonfiction--not drama or poetry | 50 | |
| 8253574886 | rhetorical appeal | attempt to get audience's' attention using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos | 51 | |
| 8253578529 | rhetorical modes | purposes of major kinds of writing: exposition, argumentation, description, narration | 52 | |
| 8253580105 | style | 1) author's choices especially in relation to diction, syntax, figurative language, and tone 2) classification of authors to a group | 53 | |
| 8253582510 | subordinate clause | word group with a subject and verb, but is dependent upon an independent clause, incomplete sentence | 54 | |
| 8253582511 | syllogism | formal logic with a major premise, minor premise, and conclusion; must be based in fact | 55 | |
| 8253584547 | symbolism | something which stands for something else | 56 | |
| 8253588869 | litotes | affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite (type of understatement) | 57 | |
| 8253589985 | meiosis | something is referred to in terms less important than it really deserves (type of understatement) | 58 | |
| 8253593797 | wit | terse intelligent humor | 59 |
