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| 3518457824 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other. | 0 | |
| 3518457825 | analogy | comparison of two similar but different objects | 1 | |
| 3518457826 | anaphora | repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, lines, or sentences | 2 | |
| 3518457827 | aphorism | a brief pithy saying, usually characterized by the strongly contrasting words, clauses, ideas, or sentences; a balancing of one term against another for impressiveness and emphasis. | 3 | |
| 3518457828 | apostrophe | usually in poetry, the device calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction; or a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person | 4 | |
| 3518457829 | alliteration | repetition of same sounds at the beginning of words that are in close proximity to one another | 5 | |
| 3518457830 | anecdote | a short simple story often used for humorous effect or to make a point or introduce a topic | 6 | |
| 3518457831 | allusion | brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification. | 7 | |
| 3518457832 | allegory | writing that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one; a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events | 8 | |
| 3518457833 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions in a sentence to create emphasis or clarity | 9 | |
| 3518457834 | begging the question | a fallacy in argumentation that assumes in the premise what the arguer should be trying to prove in the conclusion | 10 | |
| 3518457835 | bildungsroman | any writing in which the theme is the coming of age; character moves from youth to maturity | 11 | |
| 3518457836 | cacophony | harsh, sharp, hissing, or dissonant sound used deliberately in poetry or prose | 12 | |
| 3518457837 | caricature | descriptive drawing or description that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance | 13 | |
| 3518457838 | chiasms | a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed by the second. This may involve the repetition of the same or just a reversed parallel between two corresponding pairs of ideas. | 14 | |
| 3518457839 | cliche | any expression that has been used so often it has lost its freshness | 15 | |
| 3518457840 | connotation | implied or suggested meaning to a word because of its context or usage | 16 | |
| 3518457841 | consonance | the final consonants of the stressed syllables match each other,but the vowels differ | 17 | |
| 3518457842 | conundrum | a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun; it may also be a paradox or difficult problem | 18 | |
| 3518457843 | deductive reasoning | moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion; top down argument | 19 | |
| 3518457844 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word as defined in a dictionary | 20 | |
| 3518457845 | description | a type of writing using sensory details to create imagery | 21 | |
| 3518457846 | dialect | a regional or social variety of a language distinguished primarily by pronunciation, but could also be distinguished by grammar, spelling, or vocab; the language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people | 22 | |
| 3518457847 | diction | word choice, an element of style; it creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning. | 23 | |
| 3518457848 | didactic | intended to instruct or teach | 24 |
