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| 4758488781 | Cliché | is a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. Avoid clichés like the plague. (That cliché́ is intended.) | 0 | |
| 4758488782 | External Conflict | conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person a whole society. | 1 | |
| 4758488783 | Internal Conflict | a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind. | 2 | |
| 4758488784 | Epanalepsis | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common." | 3 | |
| 4758488785 | Explication | Act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 4 | |
| 4758488786 | Litotes | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 5 | |
| 4758488787 | Local Color | a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape. | 6 | |
| 4758488788 | Extended Metaphor | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it. | 7 | |
| 4758488789 | Mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected. | 8 | |
| 4758488790 | Suspense | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story. | 9 |
