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| 10578355757 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions (to reveal a hidden meaning) | 0 | |
| 10578355758 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 1 | |
| 10578355759 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 2 | |
| 10578355760 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way (uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language) | 3 | |
| 10578355761 | Analogy | Connection between 2 things | 4 | |
| 10578355762 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses Ex) My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration. | 5 | |
| 10578355763 | Anecdote | A short and amusing story about a real incident or person | 6 | |
| 10578355764 | Antecedent | An earlier clause, phrase or word to which a pronoun, another word or a noun refers back to. Ex) My uncle likes candies. He requests everyone to give him candies as gift (He refers to the uncle) | 7 | |
| 10578355765 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. Ex) Speech is silver, but silence is gold. | 8 | |
| 10578355766 | Aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner Ex) The simplest questions are the hardest to answer | 9 | |
| 10578355767 | Approximate Rhyme | Rhyming pattern with corresponding sound, but not perfect rhymes Ex) I saw her through the window pane; her eyes were filled with hate (pane and hate) | 10 | |
| 10578355768 | Apostrophe | An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (dead/absent) or a thing | 11 | |
| 10578355769 | Archetype | A typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. | 12 | |
| 10578355770 | Asyndeton | Without using conjunctions Ex) They splashed, floated, swam, snorted | 13 | |
| 10578355771 | Atmosphere | Pervading tone Mood of a place | 14 | |
| 10578355772 | Blank Verse | Verse without rhyme (iambic pentameter) | 15 | |
| 10578355773 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed Ex) Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary. | 16 | |
| 10578355774 | Clause | A group of related words containing a subject that tells readers what the sentence is about, and a verb that tells readers what the subject is doing | 17 | |
| 10578355775 | Colloquialism | Word/phrase that is informal (conversational/vernacular) | 18 | |
| 10578355776 | Conceit | An elaborate metaphor Ex )It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be; Thou knowest that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. | 19 | |
| 10578355777 | Connotation | An idea/feeling that a word invokes All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 20 | |
| 10578355778 | Couplet | 2 lines of verse w/ the same meter & joined by rhyme | 21 | |
| 10578355779 | Denotation | Literal meaning of a word | 22 | |
| 10578355780 | Diction | Word choice | 23 | |
| 10578355781 | Didactic | Intended to teach w/ a moral or motive | 24 | |
| 10578355782 | Ellipsis | Omission from speech (...) I went to the park yesterday and Joey went to the park also. ("yesterday" is omitted) | 25 | |
| 10578355783 | End Rhyme | Lines ending w/ words that rhyme | 26 | |
| 10578355784 | Enjambment | Continuation of sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza A line having no pause or end punctuation but having uninterrupted grammatical meaning continuing into the next line. Ex) "I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are; the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have That honorable grief lodged here which burns Worse than tears drown...." | 27 | |
| 10578355785 | Euphemism | A mild/indirect word/expression substituted for one that may be too harsh | 28 | |
| 10578355786 | Exposition | Used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc | 29 | |
| 10578355787 | Extended metaphor | Exploited analogy at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors, & grounds A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 30 | |
| 10578355788 | Figurative Language | Language in which figures of speech are used to make it effective, persuasive and impactful | 31 | |
| 10578355789 | Figure of Speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things. (apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement) To be used beyond literal sense | 32 | |
| 10578355790 | Foot | A group of syllables constituting a metrical unit (stressed & unstressed), A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 33 | |
| 10578355791 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have regular meter | 34 | |
| 10578355792 | Genre | Category of literature (by form, style, subject matter) | 35 | |
| 10578355793 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements | 36 | |
| 10578355794 | Iambic Pentameter | Rhythmic pattern that has 5 iambs per line (unstressed to stressed) [daDUM] | 37 | |
| 10578355795 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 38 | |
| 10578355796 | Inference | Conclusion based evidence & reasoning | 39 | |
| 10578355797 | Internal Rhyme | Involving a word in the middle of a line & another at the end of a line or the middle of the next (that rhymes) A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line Ex: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary. | 40 | |
| 10578355798 | Invective | Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language | 41 | |
| 10578355799 | Inversion | Reversal of the normal order of words for rhetorical effect. Ex: What they talked of all evening long, no one remembered next day. | 42 | |
| 10578355800 | Irony | Expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite (for humorous/emphatic effect) The name of Britain's biggest dog was "Tiny". | 43 | |
| 10578355801 | Juxtaposition | 2 things being places close together with contrasting effect | 44 | |
| 10578355802 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating(denying) its opposite Ex) You won't be sorry (glad) | 45 | |
| 10578355803 | Lyric Poem | An emotional song-like poem expressing personal feelings (sometimes rhymes) | 46 | |
| 10578355804 | Metaphor | Figure of speech comparing 2 different things | 47 | |
| 10578355805 | Meter | Unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. A stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem (a meter contains several foots) | 48 | |
| 10578355806 | Metonymy | Substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it (The pen (writing) is mightier than the sword (war/fighting) A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). | 49 | |
| 10578355807 | Mood | Atmosphere or pervading tone | 50 | |
| 10578355808 | Motif | Distinctive feature or dominant idea | 51 | |
| 10578355809 | Narrative Poem | Tells a story w/ narrator & characters in a metered verse (short of long) | 52 | |
| 10578355810 | Onomatopoeia | Word of a sound (buzz, moo, sizzle) | 53 | |
| 10578355811 | Oxymoron | Contradicting terms in conjunction Ex) falsely true; jumbo shrimp | 54 | |
| 10578355812 | Paradox | Statement that although may be somewhat true, leads to a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement Ex) Truth is honey which is bitter. | 55 | |
| 10578355813 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 56 | |
| 10578355814 | Parody | Imitation of the style | 57 | |
| 10578355815 | Personification | Human-like characteristics | 58 | |
| 10578355816 | Point-of-view | Position from which something is observed | 59 | |
| 10578355817 | Polysyndeton | Using many conjuctions | 60 | |
| 10578355818 | Prose | Written/spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure Written in dull writing/expression Ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse | 61 | |
| 10578355819 | Refrain | A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song (usually at the end of each verse/stanza) Ex: The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster... Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. (The art of losing isn't hard to master) | 62 | |
| 10578355820 | Repetition | Repeating something that's already been said | 63 | |
| 10578355821 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for effect to make a point with no expected answer | 64 | |
| 10578355822 | Rhyme Scheme | Ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse | 65 | |
| 10578355823 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 66 | |
| 10578355824 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices | 67 | |
| 10578355825 | Simile | Comparison of 2 things, using like or as | 68 | |
| 10578355826 | Sonnet | Poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhymes schemes (usually 10 syllables per line) | 69 | |
| 10578355827 | Style | A way of using language | 70 | |
| 10578355828 | Subordinate Clause | A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb (Usually introduced by a conjunction) Ex) She answered the phone "when it rang" | 71 | |
| 10578355829 | Syllepsis | A construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.") | 72 | |
| 10578355830 | Syllogism | A rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. Ex) No homework is fun. Some reading is homework. Some reading is not fun. | 73 | |
| 10578355831 | Symbolism | Use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | 74 | |
| 10578355832 | Synaesthesia | A perceptual experience in which stimulation of one sense produces additional unusual experiences in another sense | 75 | |
| 10578355833 | Synedoche | Using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels") | 76 | |
| 10578355834 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences | 77 | |
| 10578355835 | Theme | Subject of a talk/piece of writing An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art/literature | 78 | |
| 10578355836 | Thesis | A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or provoked | 79 | |
| 10578355837 | Tone | The general character or attitude of a place, piece i=of writing, situation, etc. | 80 | |
| 10578355838 | Understatement | The presentation fo something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 81 |
