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| 6496100433 | simile | figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (using like or as) | 0 | |
| 6496104205 | metaphor | comparison of two unlike things in which no words of comparison (like or as) are used | 1 | |
| 6496118886 | antecedent | thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another | 2 | |
| 6496120255 | indefinite pronouns | pronoun that does not refer to any person, amount, or thing in particular (ex. anyone, them, it, they) | 3 | |
| 6496123116 | synecdoche | expression in which a part stands for the whole | 4 | |
| 6496123117 | metonymy | person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it | 5 | |
| 6496123118 | hyperbole | truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect | 6 | |
| 6496124669 | paradox | statement seemingly contradictory to common sense | 7 | |
| 6496124670 | understatement | figure of speech that says less than is intended, usually for ironic effect | 8 | |
| 6496124671 | irony | contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality | 9 | |
| 6496125938 | exaggeration | statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is | 10 | |
| 6496125939 | foreshadowing | author's use of clues that hint at events that will occur later in the plot | 11 | |
| 6496128462 | antithetical pairs | two opposite ideas are put together to contrast | 12 | |
| 6496128463 | rhetorical question | question asked only for effect, an answer is not expected | 13 | |
| 6496137352 | parallelism | use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc | 14 | |
| 6496137353 | conceit | fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor | 15 | |
| 6496146604 | symbol | object or image that stands for something else | 16 | |
| 6496146605 | allusion | reference to someone or something from literature, history, religion, or another field that many people are familiar with | 17 | |
| 6496148738 | periodic sentence | sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements | 18 | |
| 6496150953 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 19 | |
| 6496150954 | extended metaphors | a comparison carried out for an extended period of time | 20 | |
| 6496153262 | participle | word formed from a verb used as an adjective or a noun | 21 | |
| 6496153263 | gerund | form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun | 22 | |
| 6496272285 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (ex. deafening silence) | 23 | |
| 6496277024 | litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary. ex. "not bad" | 24 | |
| 6496277025 | aphorism | short, pointed statement expressing a wise or clever observation about life | 25 | |
| 6496279489 | personification | giving human characteristics or traits to non-living things | 26 | |
| 6496287335 | consonance | recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity | 27 | |
| 6496292590 | allegory | metaphorical narrative in prose or verse in which fictional figures represent truths or generalizations about human existence | 28 | |
| 6496296656 | onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote | 29 | |
| 6496308715 | antithesis | juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | 30 | |
| 6504168046 | tone | attitude of the author towards the audience and characters, such as serious or humorous | 31 | |
| 6504172675 | rhythm | pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables, especially in poetry | 32 | |
| 6504172676 | style | author's choice and arrangement of words and sentences in a literary work | 33 | |
| 6504174553 | soliloquy | speech delivered to the audience by a character when alone on stage | 34 | |
| 6504175810 | satire | use of language to ridicule human weaknesses, vices, or stupidity, with the hope of bringing about social reform | 35 | |
| 6504175811 | quatrain | four-line stanza of four rhymed lines, rhyme scheme of various forms such as a-a-a-a, a-b-a-b, a-b-b-a | 36 | |
| 6504183704 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses "and" or another conjunction (with no commas) to separate the items in a series | 37 | |
| 6504185791 | parody | humorous imitation of another work's plot, characters, or style, usually through exaggeration | 38 | |
| 6504195405 | imagery | ability to form mental images of things or events | 39 | |
| 6504198925 | juxtaposition | placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose | 40 | |
| 6504202693 | fable | short moral story (often with animal characters) | 41 | |
| 6504202694 | epithet | word or phrase that describes or characterizes a person or thing; a descriptive name | 42 | |
| 6504203792 | flashback | transition to an earlier event or scene that inturrupts the normal chronological development of the story | 43 | |
| 6504203793 | foil | character who acts as a contrast to another character | 44 | |
| 6504205568 | epistrophe | repetition of the same words or group of words at the end of successive phrases or clauses | 45 | |
| 6504208155 | epigraph | quotation at the beginnning of some piece of writing | 46 | |
| 6504210273 | chiamus | inversion of the order of words in a previous phrase | 47 | |
| 6504212438 | asyndeton | commas used without conjunction to seperate a series of words thus emphasizing the parts equally | 48 | |
| 6504212439 | assonance | repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 49 | |
| 6504213903 | apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter is the explanation or modification of the first | 50 | |
| 6504213904 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 51 | |
| 6504216126 | apostrophe | figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract concept, or an inanimate object is directly talked to or addressed | 52 | |
| 6504216128 | anastrophe | inverted order of words or events | 53 | |
| 6504219317 | antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 54 |
