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| 7781899846 | Litotes | a form of understatement |  | 0 |
| 7781899847 | Allusion | a reference to something commonly known, often historical, mythic, literary, or religious |  | 1 |
| 7781899848 | Antithesis | the direct opposite |  | 2 |
| 7781899849 | Diction | the writer's word choices |  | 3 |
| 7781899850 | Symbol | generally anything that represents itself and stands for something else |  | 4 |
| 8126602817 | Allegory | The device of using characters and story elements to represent an abstraction in addition to a literal idea. |  | 5 |
| 8126605183 | Alliteration | Repetition of sounds especially the initial consonants of words near each other in written work. |  | 6 |
| 8126613303 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or principle. A sort of folk proverb |  | 7 |
| 8126617012 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified idea. |  | 8 |
| 8126645077 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. |  | 9 |
| 8126649788 | Connotation | The non-literal meaning of a word; the implied or suggested meaning. |  | 10 |
| 8126653184 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word |  | 11 |
| 8126658249 | Didactic | Didactic words have the primary purpose of teaching or instructing |  | 12 |
| 8239255253 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. "Earthly remains" rather than "corpse" |  | 13 |
| 8239285336 | Figurative Language | Writing or language not meant to be taken literally |  | 14 |
| 8239297727 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 15 | |
| 8239352109 | imagery | Sensory details |  | 16 |
| 8239355950 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong abusive language |  | 17 |
| 8239372556 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparisons of seemingly unlike things |  | 18 |
| 8239476587 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name for one object is substituted for that of another closely related to it. For example, "The White House declared".... the "White House is substituted for the "president". | 19 | |
| 8239505645 | Mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work (different from tone which involves the writer's attitude). | 20 | |
| 8239595923 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 21 | |
| 8239611686 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but actually contains some degree of truth. For example, "it was the best of time, it was the worst of times". |  | 22 |
| 8239639102 | Parallelism | Also called parallel structure. Refers to grammatical or rhetorical framing of words phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity. For example, "It was the best of times, it was the worse of times". |  | 23 |
| 8239669510 | Anaphora | a sub type of parallelism, with the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines. MLK uses anaphora in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. |  | 24 |
| 8239693617 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words or phrases that are overly scholarly, academic, or bookish |  | 25 |
| 8239717846 | Personification | Figurative language in which the author describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 26 | |
| 8239743609 | Point of View | The perspective from which the story is told. | 27 | |
| 8239748505 | Prose | Common writing style in which the writer generally uses complete sentence structure as opposed to poetry (in which the poet determines the length of the line based on other considerations). |  | 28 |
| 8239825419 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. |  | 29 |
| 8239846894 | Shift | Tonal, point of view, structural change in writing that may signify an important new element. | 30 | |
| 8239865259 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole. For example, "all hands on deck" in which the hands represent the sailors. how about , "wheels" representing your car? |  | 31 |
| 8239929756 | Synesthesia | When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. In literature synesthesia refers to the use of associating two or more senses to the same image.... "Taste the pain" "Jerry's got the blues today" |  | 32 |
| 8239975237 | Syntax | The way an author decides to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. |  | 33 |
| 8239990858 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. |  | 34 |
| 8240001858 | Tone | An author's attitude toward her material. Can be formed by author's use of diction as well as other techniques. |  | 35 |
| 9228623272 | Allusion | Example: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" | 36 | |
| 9228630906 | Doppelganger | Example: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |  | 37 |
| 9228637911 | Litotes | Example: "Not the brightest bulb" or "Not a beauty" |  | 38 |
| 9228652837 | Inversion | Changing the conventional placement of words (not exclusive to but most common in poetry) | 39 | |
| 9228658363 | Portmanteau | Example: "smog" or "brunch" |  | 40 |
| 9228687308 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds in quick succession (mid-word sounds as well as opening) | 41 | |
| 9228700634 | Paradox | Example: "Fair is foul and foul is fair" | 42 | |
| 9228719491 | Consonance | Example: "A Quietness distilled As Twilight long begun" (Dickinson) |  | 43 |
| 9228736752 | Doppelganger | A character who serves as a twin, shadow, or a mirror-image of a protagonist. |  | 44 |
