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| 3711605311 | allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or abstract ideas | 0 | |
| 4170597325 | alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
| 4170599015 | allusion | reference to someone or something that is well known | 2 | |
| 4170600231 | ambiguity | deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work | 3 | |
| 4170605939 | analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 4 | |
| 4170607280 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 5 | |
| 4170610120 | anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of parts in a sentence | 6 | |
| 4170615009 | anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual | 7 | |
| 4170616822 | antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero | 8 | |
| 4170618203 | antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 9 | |
| 4170621086 | antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted | 10 | |
| 4170623033 | antihero | central character who lacks the qualities traditionally associated with heros | 11 | |
| 4170625168 | anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object | 12 | |
| 4170627104 | aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life | 13 | |
| 4170630600 | apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abtract idea | 14 | |
| 4170633225 | apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements | 15 | |
| 4170637571 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 16 | |
| 4170641572 | asyndeton | commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, this emphasizing the parts equally | 17 | |
| 4170646225 | balance | constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance | 18 | |
| 4170649095 | cliche | a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse | 19 | |
| 4170654502 | colloquialism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations | 20 | |
| 4170657238 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different | 21 | |
| 4170659180 | connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase | 22 | |
| 4170661585 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 23 | |
| 4170663751 | didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 24 | |
| 4170667332 | elegy | poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died | 25 | |
| 4170669347 | epigraph | a quotation at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme | 26 | |
| 4170672374 | epistrophe | device of repetition in which the same expressions is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 27 | |
| 4170675012 | fable | a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life | 28 | |
| 4170679483 | farce | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations | 29 | |
| 4170681904 | figurative language | words which are inaccurate in interpreted literally, but are used to describe something else | 30 | |
| 4170684492 | FOIL | a character who acts as a contrast to another character | 31 | |
| 4170687987 | free verse | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 32 | |
| 4170689660 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement for effect | 33 | |
| 4170691804 | imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience | 34 | |
| 4170698050 | inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase | 35 | |
| 4170698983 | irony | a discrepancy between appearances and reality | 36 | |
| 4170700755 | juxtaposition | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit | 37 | |
| 4170706376 | litotes | form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 38 | |
| 4170708825 | lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker | 39 | |
| 4170712767 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it | 40 | |
| 4170715255 | mood | an atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected | 41 | |
| 4170719467 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense | 42 | |
| 4170722713 | parable | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life | 43 | |
| 4170725267 | parallelism | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 44 | |
| 4170727821 | parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style | 45 | |
| 4170730813 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas to separate the items in a series | 46 | |
| 4170735893 | quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit | 47 | |
| 4170740670 | refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated several times in a poem | 48 | |
| 4170742476 | rhetoric | art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | 49 | |
| 4170745424 | satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change | 50 | |
| 4170748583 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole | 51 | |
| 4170751113 | tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization | 52 |
