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| 6376559707 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 0 | |
| 6376570592 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 1 | |
| 6376570836 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 2 | |
| 6397500922 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 3 | |
| 6397501812 | Cumulative Sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 4 | |
| 6397502139 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 5 | |
| 6397502493 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 6 | |
| 6397502618 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 7 | |
| 6397502845 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 8 | |
| 6397503772 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 9 | |
| 6397504360 | Denouement | An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 10 | |
| 6397504736 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 11 | |
| 6397504821 | Epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 12 | |
| 6397507455 | Slant Rhyme | Rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme | 13 | |
| 6397507743 | Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 14 | |
| 6397508078 | Compound Sentence | A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions. | 15 | |
| 6397508309 | Loose Sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 16 | |
| 6397508654 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. | 17 | |
| 6397509060 | Em dashes | The -- ---- may replace commas, semicolons, colons and parentheses. There are often situations where a period is to strong, a semicolons too formal, but a comma is too weak. | 18 | |
| 6401738145 | Ballade | French in origin and made up of 28 lines, usually three stanzas of 8 lines and a concluding stanza, called envoy, of 4 lines. The last line of each stanza is the same and the scheme is ababbcbc and the envoy's is bcbc. | 19 | |
| 6401738430 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 20 | |
| 6401738889 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 21 | |
| 6433612891 | Heroic Couplet | Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs. | 22 | |
| 6433643680 | Epitaph | inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone) | 23 | |
| 6433650717 | Enigma | A mystery; a puzzle | 24 | |
| 6433654969 | Pathetic Fallacy | faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects | 25 | |
| 6433659963 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 26 | |
| 6433663335 | Tragic Flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. | 27 |
