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| 4343662417 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 0 | |
| 4343662418 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. | 1 | |
| 4343664278 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). | 2 | |
| 4343664279 | Figurative language: | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 3 | |
| 4343664280 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 4 | |
| 4343666383 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 5 | |
| 4343666384 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 6 | |
| 4343666385 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 7 | |
| 4343668082 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. | 8 | |
| 4343668083 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 9 | |
| 4343668084 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 10 | |
| 4343670127 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 11 | |
| 4343670128 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos). | 12 | |
| 4343670129 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 13 | |
| 4343672004 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 14 | |
| 4343672005 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 15 | |
| 4343673335 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 16 |
