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| 5086757250 | ad hominem | Latin -> To the man A logical fallacy (error) where instead of attacking the issue, you attack the person Example -> politicians | 0 | |
| 5086757251 | allegory | A story where the characters and events symbolize bigger things Example -> The Tortise and The Hare | 1 | |
| 5086757252 | alliteration | Repetitive consonant | 2 | |
| 5086757253 | allusion | Reference to another work of art within another work of literature | 3 | |
| 5086757254 | anachronism | Out of its own time; something that does not belong in the time period | 4 | |
| 5086757255 | anecdote | A story with a purpose | 5 | |
| 5086757256 | annotation | Formalized notes, usually by professors | 6 | |
| 5086757257 | antithesis | A literary device in which a opposition or contrast of words are expressed | 7 | |
| 5086757258 | aphorism | A short pithy saying of known authorship | 8 | |
| 5086757259 | apostrophe | A speech addressing an inanimate object | 9 | |
| 5086757260 | archetype | The best/original example | 10 | |
| 5086757261 | assonance | A repetitive vowel sound | 11 | |
| 5086757262 | bard | A storyteller | 12 | |
| 5086757263 | The Bard | William Shakespeare | 13 | |
| 5086757264 | bombast | Highly emotional amd dramatic | 14 | |
| 5086757265 | cacophony | A harsh discordant mixture of sounds | 15 | |
| 5086757266 | canon | Works of a particular author or artist recognized as genuine | 16 | |
| 5086757267 | caricature | A picture describing someone with words, exaggaerating certain feature A comically exagerated representation of someone or something | 17 | |
| 5086757268 | clause | A particular and separate article in a certain document | 18 | |
| 5086757269 | climax | The most intense or important point of something | 19 | |
| 5086757270 | comparison and contrast | 20 | ||
| 5086757271 | conceit | An ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor | 21 | |
| 5086757272 | concrete detail | 22 | ||
| 5086757273 | connation | The abstract meaning of a | 23 | |
| 5086757274 | consonance | 24 | ||
| 5086757275 | cynic | 25 | ||
| 5086757276 | deductive reasoning | From the general to the specific | 26 | |
| 5086757277 | denotation | The literal meaning of a word | 27 | |
| 5086757278 | denouement | 28 | ||
| 5086757279 | dues ex machina | The machine or God A contrived plot device in a play or novel | 29 | |
| 5086757280 | diction | 30 | ||
| 5086757281 | didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 31 | |
| 5086757282 | digression | A temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing | 32 | |
| 5086757283 | Dionysian | Hedenistic (having a good time all the time) | 33 | |
| 5086757284 | dramatic irony | Irony in situations that is understood by the audience but not the character | 34 | |
| 5086757285 | elegy | 35 | ||
| 5086757286 | Ellipsis | A writing of words that can understood from contextual clues | 36 | |
| 5086757287 | epithet | An adjective that goes with a name | 37 | |
| 5086757288 | ethos | Appeal to the author's credibility | 38 | |
| 5086757289 | euphemism | 39 | ||
| 5086757290 | euphony | 40 | ||
| 5086757291 | expose | 41 | ||
| 5086757292 | exposition | 42 | ||
| 5086757293 | extended metaphor | 43 | ||
| 5086757294 | fable | 44 | ||
| 5086757295 | fallacy | 45 | ||
| 5086757296 | farce | A parody A joke | 46 | |
| 5086757297 | figurative language | 47 | ||
| 5086757298 | frame | A genre of stories A collection of stories | 48 | |
| 5086757299 | genre | A large division in literature | 49 | |
| 5086757300 | hubris | Pride that leads to downfall | 50 | |
| 5086757301 | hyperbole | 51 | ||
| 5086757302 | inductive reasoning | 52 | ||
| 5086757303 | inference | 53 | ||
| 5086757304 | invective | 54 | ||
| 5086757305 | irony | 55 | ||
| 5086757306 | lampoon | To poke fun at something | 56 | |
| 5086757307 | logos | Appeal to logic | 57 | |
| 5086757308 | loose sentence | A sentence where the independent clause is at the beginning of the sentence. | 58 | |
| 5086757309 | maxim | 59 | ||
| 5086757310 | metaphor | 60 | ||
| 5086757311 | metonymy | 61 | ||
| 5086757312 | mood | 62 | ||
| 5086757313 | narrative | 63 | ||
| 5086757314 | non sequitor | Does not follow A logical fallacy | 64 | |
| 5086757315 | objective | 65 | ||
| 5086757316 | onomatopoeia | 66 | ||
| 5086757317 | oxymoron | 67 | ||
| 5086757318 | parable | 68 | ||
| 5086757319 | paradox | 69 | ||
| 5086757320 | parody | A farce To make fun of something | 70 | |
| 5086757321 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 71 | |
| 5086757322 | pedantic | Overly scholarly | 72 | |
| 5086757323 | periodic sentence | A sentence where the independent clause is towards the end of the sentence | 73 | |
| 5086757324 | personification | 74 | ||
| 5086757325 | prose | 75 | ||
| 5086757326 | pseudonym | A fake name | 76 | |
| 5086757327 | pun | 77 | ||
| 5086757328 | rebuttal | 78 | ||
| 5086757329 | repetition | 79 | ||
| 5086757330 | rhetoric | 80 | ||
| 5086757331 | rhetorical mode | 81 | ||
| 5086757332 | sarcasm | 82 | ||
| 5086757333 | satire | 83 | ||
| 5086757334 | simile | 84 | ||
| 5086757335 | subjective | 85 | ||
| 5086757336 | syllogism | A three-part logical proof | 86 | |
| 5086757337 | synecdoche | A part of something made to represent a whole or vice versa | 87 | |
| 5086757338 | syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 88 | |
| 5086757339 | tone | 89 | ||
| 5086757340 | verbal irony | Saying the opposite of what you mean | 90 |
