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| 7627761768 | Accent | a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. | 0 | |
| 7627761769 | Adynaton | a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility: I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his cheek. | 1 | |
| 7632709781 | Aesthetic Distance | the gap between a viewer's conscious reality and the fictional reality presented in a work of art. | 2 | |
| 7632709782 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 3 | |
| 7632712479 | Alliteration | the repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose | 4 | |
| 7632712480 | Allusion | a reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea | 5 | |
| 7632715102 | Amplification | a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability. | 6 | |
| 7632716942 | Anachronism | a person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set | 7 | |
| 7632716943 | Anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. | 8 | |
| 7632719991 | Anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they. | 9 | |
| 7632723054 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. | 10 | |
| 7632723055 | Antagonist | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary. | 11 | |
| 7632725097 | Anti- Climax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 12 | |
| 7632728992 | Antihero | a protagonist of a drama or narrative who is notably lacking in heroic qualities | 13 | |
| 7632732162 | Anthipophora | is a figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question | 14 | |
| 7632733528 | Antitheses | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 15 | |
| 7632734803 | Antonym | a word opposite in meaning to another | 16 | |
| 7632742540 | Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it | 17 | |
| 7632744364 | Apostrophe | A location that addresses a person or personified thing not present | 18 | |
| 7632746897 | Archetype | An abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example; an original model or form | 19 | |
| 7632746898 | Aside | a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play. | 20 | |
| 7632748637 | Assonance | The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry and prose | 21 | |
| 7632750434 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 22 | |
| 7632750435 | Atmosphere | the pervading tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art. | 23 | |
| 7632753133 | Aubade | a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning. | 24 | |
| 7632753134 | Ballad | A simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited | 25 | |
| 7632756579 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education. | 26 | |
| 7632759130 | Binary Opposition | is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning | 27 | |
| 7632760893 | Black Comedy | dark comedy is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo | 28 | |
| 7632762475 | Blank Verse | Poetry written in iambic pentameter, the primary meter used in English poetry and the works of Shakespeare and Milton | 29 | |
| 8564575378 | Byronic Hero | an antihero of the highest order. He (or she) is typically rebellious, arrogant, anti-social or in exile, and darkly, enticingly romantic. | 30 | |
| 8564581721 | Cacophony | a situation in which there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds. In literature, however, the term refers to the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds - primarily those of consonants - to achieve desired results. | 31 | |
| 8564588803 | Caesura | a not-so-awkward pause that occurs in the middle of a line of verse in poetry. | 32 | |
| 8564588804 | Caricature | a device used in descriptive writing and visual arts, in which particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated, to create a silly or comic effect. | 33 | |
| 7632765825 | Catastrophe | an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster. | 34 | |
| 7632768286 | Catharsis | A cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror of a dramatic tragedy | 35 | |
| 7632769963 | Character | the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. | 36 | |
| 7632769974 | Characterization | the creation or construction of a fictional character. | 37 | |
| 7632772220 | Chorus | a part of a song that is repeated after each verse, typically by more than one singer. | 38 | |
| 7632776440 | Cliche | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. | 39 | |
| 7632776441 | Climax | The high point, or turning point, of a story or play | 40 | |
| 7632780866 | Colloquialism | Slang. | 41 | |
| 7632780867 | Comedy | professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. | 42 | |
| 7632783356 | Conceit | A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language | 43 | |
| 7632785314 | Confidant | A character in a drama or fiction, such as a trusted friend or servant, who serves as a device for revealing the inner thoughts or intentions of a main character. | 44 | |
| 7632785315 | Conflict | a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. | 45 | |
| 7632790006 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 46 | |
| 7632791498 | Consonance | The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in a group of words or a line of poetry | 47 | |
| 7632791499 | Couplet | A pair of rhyming lines in a poem | 48 | |
| 7632793387 | Dactyl | A dactyl is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable | 49 | |
| 7632795677 | Dead Metaphor | is a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning due to extensive, repetitive, and popular usage. | 50 | |
| 7632796915 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 51 | |
| 7632799674 | Denouement | The resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work of fiction | 52 | |
| 7632801919 | Deus ex Machina | In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem | 53 | |
| 7632806100 | Dialogue | conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. | 54 | |
| 7632806101 | Diction | The choice of words in oral and written discourse | 55 | |
| 7632809909 | Didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. | 56 | |
| 7632811423 | Digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing. | 57 | |
| 7632813197 | Dilemma | a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. | 58 | |
| 7632815415 | Direct Characterization | direct speech to the character | 59 | |
| 7632816864 | Dissonance | lack of harmony among musical notes. | 60 | |
| 7632818938 | Double Rhyme | a feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable in each rhyming line. | 61 | |
| 7632825358 | Dramatic Framework | Author and Audience are both "characters" having a dialogue in the drama of real life. | 62 | |
| 7632825359 | Dramatization | a play or movie adapted from a novel or depicting a particular incident. | 63 | |
| 7632828472 | Dystopic | lternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. | 64 | |
| 7632828473 | Echo | a type of verse in which repetition of the end of a line or stanza imitates an echo. The repetition usually constitutes the entire following line and changes the meaning of the part being repeated. | 65 | |
| 7632830180 | Elegy | A poem or prose selection that laments or mediates on the passing or death of something or someone of value | 66 | |
| 7632830181 | End Rhyme | occurs when last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other. | 67 | |
| 7632835580 | Enjambment | In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them | 68 | |
| 7632835581 | Epiphany | the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi | 69 | |
| 7632839655 | Epitaph | a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone. | 70 | |
| 7632841268 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 71 | |
| 7632843938 | Euphemism | A mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term; i.e. "pass away" instead of "die" | 72 | |
| 7632845551 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. | 73 | |
| 7632847894 | Exposition | The background and events that lead to the presentation of the main idea or purpose of a work of literature | 74 | |
| 7632847908 | Extended Figure | refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem. | 75 | |
| 7632850750 | Falling Action | The action in a play or story that occurs after the climax and that leads to the conclusion and often to the resolution of the conflict | 76 | |
| 7632850751 | Fantasy | A story containing unreal, imaginary features | 77 | |
| 7632852738 | Farce | A comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose. | 78 | |
| 7632854917 | Fatal Flaw | is the secret weakness of character that brings about a tragic hero's downfall. | 79 | |
| 7632856798 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables | 80 | |
| 7632858403 | Figurative Language | Also called figure of speech. In contrast to literal language, it implies meanings. Includes metaphors, similes, and personification, among others. | 81 | |
| 7632858404 | Foil | Character that makes the protagonist look good. | 82 | |
| 7632860193 | Foot | A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to determine the meter of a poetic line | 83 | |
| 7632862255 | Foreshadowing | Providing hints of things to come in a story or play | 84 | |
| 7632862256 | Form | A structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative | 85 | |
| 7632863958 | Framed Narrative | is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, | 86 | |
| 7632863959 | Free verse | A kind of poetry without rhymed lines, rhythm, or fixed metrical feet | 87 | |
| 7632863960 | Genre | A term used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, and essay | 88 | |
| 7632866930 | Grammatical Pause | a cessation of activity because of doubt or uncertainty; a momentary hesitation. I would like to make a pause in my talk and continue after lunch | 89 | |
| 7632866931 | Hamarita | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 90 | |
| 7632876496 | Heroic Couplet | Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse. | 91 | |
| 7632878541 | Hubris | The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death | 92 | |
| 7632878542 | Hyperbaton | an inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis, as in the sentence " this I must see | 93 | |
| 7632880319 | Hyperbole | Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect | 94 | |
| 7632881795 | Hypophoria | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 95 | |
| 7632884900 | Iamb | a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator | 96 | |
| 7632887474 | Iambic Meter | A foot is an iamb if it consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, so the word remark is an iamb | 97 | |
| 7632887475 | Idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words | 98 | |
| 7632889894 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 99 | |
| 7632891666 | Indeterminate Ending | is a literary device in which the conflict is left unresolved or ambiguous at the end of the plot | 100 | |
| 7632896577 | In Media Res | "In the middle of things"--a Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events, but at some other critical point. | 101 | |
| 7632898851 | Indirect Characterization | the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc | 102 | |
| 7632901352 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next | 103 | |
| 7632901353 | Irony | A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what might have been expected | 104 | |
| 7632903923 | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | is a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme | 105 | |
| 7632915226 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 106 | |
| 7632915227 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 107 | |
| 7632917957 | Lament | a passionate expression of grief or sorrow. | 108 | |
| 7632917958 | Lampoon | A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation | 109 | |
| 7632919381 | Line | a long, narrow mark or band. | 110 | |
| 7632919382 | Litotes | A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity. Ex: He's not a bad dancer | 111 | |
| 7632921925 | Masculine Rhyme | a rhyme of final stressed syllables | 112 | |
| 7632922995 | Melodrama | A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response | 113 | |
| 7632922996 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 114 | |
| 7632924973 | Meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry | 115 | |
| 7632926415 | Mentonymy | A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. Ex: "The White House says..." | 116 | |
| 7632928654 | Monologue | a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. | 117 | |
| 7632930663 | Motif | a decorative design or pattern. | 118 | |
| 7632928655 | Moral | A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature | 119 | |
| 7632932588 | Motives/Motivation | is also one's direction to behavior, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior. A motive is what prompts the person to act in a certain way, or at least develop an inclination for specific behavior. | 120 | |
| 7632934101 | Mystery | something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. | 121 | |
| 7632934102 | Nadsat | is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange. | 122 | |
| 7632935817 | Narrator | telling a story | 123 | |
| 7632935818 | Nemesis | person fighting against | 124 | |
| 7632941668 | Nihilism | the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. | 125 | |
| 7632941669 | Octave | a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other. | 126 | |
| 7632943792 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feeling towards the subject | 127 | |
| 7632945876 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning | 128 | |
| 7632945877 | Oxymoron | A term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect | 129 | |
| 7632948395 | Parable | A story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived | 130 | |
| 7632948396 | Paradox | A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true | 131 | |
| 7632952455 | Paradoxical Situation | is an adjective that describes a paradox, something with two meanings that don't make sense together. | 132 | |
| 7632957040 | Paradoxical Statement | used by people in business, and it seems to say two opposite things that contradict each other, | 133 | |
| 7632959034 | Parallelism | a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. | 134 | |
| 7632963083 | Paraphrase | A version of a text put into simpler, everyday words | 135 | |
| 7632963084 | Parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 136 | |
| 7632966611 | Paronym | a word that is a derivative of another and has a related meaning. | 137 | |
| 7632966612 | Pastoral | A work of literature dealing with rural life | 138 | |
| 7632969878 | Pentameter | A verse with five poetic feet per line | 139 | |
| 7632973200 | Peripetia | a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative. | 140 | |
| 7632973201 | Persona | The role or facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, a viewer, or the world at large | 141 | |
| 7632976598 | Personification | a figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics. | 142 | |
| 7632978520 | Phonetic Intensive | a word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning; as differentiated fro onomatopoetic words | 143 | |
| 7632981101 | Picaresque | An episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. Ex: Don Quixote, Moll Flanders | 144 | |
| 7632981102 | Plot | the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. | 145 | |
| 7632984709 | Plot Manipulation | A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceding action or by the characters involved | 146 | |
| 7632986537 | Point of View | The relation in which a narrator or speaker stands to the story or subject matter of a poem. | 147 | |
| 7632989733 | Polysyndeton | is a literary technique in which conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed. | 148 | |
| 7632991827 | Prose Poem | a piece of writing in prose having obvious poetic qualities, including intensity, compactness, prominent rhythms, and imagery. | 149 | |
| 7632993800 | Protagonists | The main character in a work of literature | 150 | |
| 7632995663 | Protatic Character | introduced at the beginning of a play, usually for the purpose of exposition Probably a development of the Chorus | 151 | |
| 7632997359 | Proverb | a short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice | 152 | |
| 7632999171 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 153 | |
| 7632999172 | Purple Prose | prose that is too elaborate or ornate. | 154 | |
| 7633001763 | Quatrain | A four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem | 155 | |
| 7633003946 | Quixotic | exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical. | 156 | |
| 7633003947 | Realism | The depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration for effect. | 157 | |
| 7633004003 | Refrain | stop oneself from doing something. | 158 | |
| 7633006565 | Rhyme | the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry. | 159 | |
| 7633008120 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhymes within a given poem | 160 | |
| 7633009797 | Rhythm | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry | 161 | |
| 7633011425 | Rising Action | a series of events build toward the point of greatest interest. The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition | 162 | |
| 7633014126 | Romantic Literature | was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. | 163 | |
| 7633014127 | Sarcasm | A sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt; different from irony, which is more subtle | 164 | |
| 7633016076 | Satire | A literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change | 165 | |
| 7633018587 | Scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm. | 166 | |
| 7633020197 | Semantics | the study of language. | 167 | |
| 7633022310 | Sentimental Poetry | is a 1795 paper by Friedrich Schiller on poetic theory and the different types of poetic relationship to the world. The work divides poetry into two forms. Naïve poetry is poetry of direct description while sentimental poetry is self-reflective. | 168 | |
| 7633024058 | Sentimentality | excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. | 169 | |
| 7633025707 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet. | 170 | |
| 7633028745 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern | 171 | |
| 7633028746 | Setting | the total environment for the action in a novel or play. It includes time, place, historical milieu, and social, political, and even spiritual circumstances | 172 | |
| 7633033799 | Shakespearean/English Sonnet | The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains | 173 | |
| 7633033800 | Simile | A figurative comparison using the words like or as | 174 | |
| 7633036404 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. | 175 | |
| 7633036405 | Sonnet | A popular form of verse consisting of fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme. | 176 | |
| 7633040561 | Spenserian Sonnet | in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme | 177 | |
| 7633045677 | Spondee | a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. | 178 | |
| 7633045678 | Stanza | A group of two or more lines in poetry combined according to subject matter, rhyme, or some other plan | 179 | |
| 7633054058 | Stress | the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm. | 180 | |
| 7633053966 | Steam Of Consciousness | A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind | 181 | |
| 7633117632 | Structure | the way something is built | 182 | |
| 7633117633 | Style | The manner in which an author uses and arranges words | 183 | |
| 7633119125 | Sub-Plot | A subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot | 184 | |
| 7633119126 | Sub-Text | The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature | 185 | |
| 7633121156 | Suprise | something unexpected | 186 | |
| 7633121157 | Symbol | The use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object | 187 | |
| 7633124492 | Synethdsia | the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. | 188 | |
| 7633124493 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole ("fifty masts" for fifty ships) or the whole signifies the part ("days" for life, as in "He lived his days in Canada"). Also when the name of the material stands for the thing itself ("pigskin" for football) | 189 | |
| 8564651210 | Synonym | a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language. | 190 | |
| 7633132165 | Syntax | The organization of language into meaningful structure; every sentence has a particular pattern of words | 191 | |
| 7633132166 | Tercet | a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet. | 192 | |
| 7633134892 | Terza Rima | s a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems | 193 | |
| 7633138739 | Tetrameter | a verse of four measures. | 194 | |
| 7633138740 | Theme | The main idea or meaning, often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built | 195 | |
| 7633140924 | Titular Character | A character whose name appears in the title of the novel or play; also known as the eponymous character | 196 | |
| 7633140925 | Tone | The author's attitude toward the subject being written about. The spirit or quality that is the work's emotional essence | 197 | |
| 7633140926 | Tragedy | A form of literature in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and a set of forces that cause the hero considerable anguish | 198 | |
| 7633144081 | Tragic-Comedy | Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. | 199 | |
| 7633145913 | Turning Point | a change in a plot or story | 200 | |
| 7633148246 | Understatment | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 201 | |
| 7633148375 | Unity | come together | 202 | |
| 7633151800 | Unreliable Narritive | is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. | 203 | |
| 7633151801 | Utopic | modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic. | 204 | |
| 7633151802 | Verse | A synonym for poetry. Also a group of lines in a song or poem; also a single line of poetry | 205 | |
| 7633153564 | Villanelle | A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes | 206 | |
| 7633153565 | Zeugma | a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. An example of a zeugma is, "She broke his car and his heart." When you use one word to link two thoughts, you're using a zeugma. | 207 | |
| 7633155737 | Ethos | the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations. | 208 | |
| 7633155738 | Pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness. | 209 | |
| 7633156768 | Logos | the logic behind an argument. | 210 |
