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| 4429627744 | Active Voice | describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb | 0 | |
| 4429637389 | Allusion | an indirect reference to something | 1 | |
| 4429645226 | Anecdote | a short story used to illustrate a claim | 2 | |
| 4429660268 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another | 3 | |
| 4429668860 | Apostrophe | A writer or a speaker, using an (_________), detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 4 | |
| 4429682169 | Diction | speakers choice of words | 5 | |
| 4429694591 | Colloquial | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing | 6 | |
| 4431464627 | Connotation | meaning of a word to the readers beyond its definition | 7 | |
| 4431468991 | Denotation | the actual meaning of a word, other than what feelings toward the word may suggest | 8 | |
| 4431471221 | Jargon | the words used by a group of similar practices | 9 | |
| 4431474949 | Vernacular | daily language or common diction | 10 | |
| 4431483059 | Didactic | someone who preaches or is moralistic | 11 | |
| 4431485056 | Aphorism (or Adage) | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | 12 | |
| 4431487884 | Allegory | story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 13 | |
| 4434772356 | Ellipsis | the appropriate omission of words that are mutually understood and thus unnecessary | 14 | |
| 4434784683 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word substituted for one that is harsh or inappropriate | 15 | |
| 4434845875 | Figurative Language | uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation | 16 | |
| 4434845876 | Analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | 17 | |
| 4434851944 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 18 | |
| 4434871091 | Idiom | a word or phrase that is not taken literally | 19 | |
| 4434876565 | Metaphor | the comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as | 20 | |
| 4434891688 | Metonymy | a word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word | 21 | |
| 4434915280 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 22 | |
| 4434919906 | Simile | a figure of speech that directly compares two things using like or as | 23 | |
| 4434942087 | Synesthesia | figure of speech where one sense is described in terms of another | 24 | |
| 4434944382 | Personification | a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas | 25 | |
| 4434946290 | Genre | a category of literary composition | 26 | |
| 4434949434 | Imagery | to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas | 27 | |
| 4434963398 | Invective | speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution | 28 | |
| 4434974665 | Juxtaposition | two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 29 | |
| 4435009697 | Mood | the emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader | 30 | |
| 4435034673 | Motif | any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story | 31 | |
| 4435034674 | Oxymoron | figure of speech in which incongruous or seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side | 32 | |
| 4435053138 | Pacing | a stylistic device , which shows how fast a story unfolds | 33 | |
| 4435055144 | Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself, or that must be both true and untrue at the same time | 34 | |
| 4440139709 | Parallelism | a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases | 35 | |
| 4440143159 | Anaphora | a word or group of words is repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences | 36 | |
| 4440145745 | Antithesis | a literary device used to put two contrasting ideas together | 37 | |
| 4440153391 | Chiasmus | device in which a sentence or phrase is followed by a sentence or phrase that reverses the structure and order of the first sentence | 38 | |
| 4440157093 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 39 | |
| 4440161730 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 40 | |
| 4440169030 | Parenthetical Idea | an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage | 41 | |
| 4440173718 | Parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | 42 | |
| 4440178363 | Persona | the aspect of someones character that is presented or perceived by others | 43 | |
| 4440180218 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words | 44 | |
| 4440183783 | Assonance | the repetition of the sound of a vowel | 45 | |
| 4440185558 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word associated with what is named "BOOM" "POW" | 46 | |
| 4440190699 | Periphrasis | the use of indirect and circulatory speech or writing | 47 | |
| 4440194270 | Polysyndeton | when conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession | 48 | |
| 4440196575 | Asyndeton | the omission of absence of a conjunction between part of a sentence | 49 | |
| 4440199986 | Pun | the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one | 50 | |
| 4440206575 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing | 51 | |
| 4440210526 | Aristotelian Triangle | ethos, pathos, logos, appealing to logic, emotion, and credibility | 52 | |
| 4440212859 | Rhetorical Question | a question you ask without expecting an answer | 53 | |
| 4440217205 | Satire | the use of humor,irony, and exaggeration to expose stupidity | 54 | |
| 4440222970 | Appositive | noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it | 55 | |
| 4440224955 | Independent Clause | a group of words that contain a subject and verb and express a complete thought | 56 | |
| 4440227487 | Subordinate Clause | typically introduced by a conjunction that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause | 57 | |
| 4440233195 | Compound Sentence | has two independent clauses | 58 | |
| 4440235238 | Complex Sentence | contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 59 | |
| 4440241151 | Loose Sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea is elaborated by the previous modifying clauses | 60 | |
| 4440252712 | Periodic Sentence | the main clause or predicate is at the end of the sentence | 61 | |
| 4440254108 | Symbol | when an object, person, or situation has another meaning than its literal | 62 | |
| 4440257285 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences | 63 | |
| 4440259637 | Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, thoughts, or an exhibition | 64 | |
| 4440262535 | Thesis | a statement of theory that is put toward as a premise to be maintained | 65 | |
| 4440264766 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place or piece of writing | 66 | |
| 4440267222 | Litotes | the presentation of something as being smaller than actual | 67 |
