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| 9291127107 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of tow or more sentences in a row (this makes the writer's point more coherent) EX: Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better. |  | 0 |
| 9291146254 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. (Purpose is its rhythm, emphasis, or euphony) Fancy word for inversion |  | 1 |
| 9291176172 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (in poetry: chiasmus) |  | 2 |
| 9291190011 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. EX: "Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit." - Aristotle |  | 3 |
| 9291209769 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. (May lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples) |  | 4 |
| 9291216446 | Aphorism | Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, a principle, or accepted general truth. |  | 5 |
| 9291224576 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or an abstract idea. (if to a god/goddess: invocation) |  | 6 |
| 9291255291 | Apposition | Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first EX: The dining room, the noisiest part of the house, is a terrible place to be. |  | 7 |
| 9291304127 | Asyndeton | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of word, thus emphasizing the parts equally EX: An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |  | 8 |
| 9291319413 | Balance | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance | 9 | |
| 9291324912 | Static character | One who does not change much in the course of a story |  | 10 |
| 9291329566 | Dynamic character | One who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action |  | 11 |
| 9291336504 | Flat character | Has only one of two personality traits |  | 12 |
| 9291341226 | Round character | Has more dimensions to their personalities; they are complex like real people |  | 13 |
| 9291346928 | Chiasmus | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed (prose: antimetabole) | | 14 |
| 9291358705 | Conceit | An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different (often an extended metaphor) EX: The Flea by John Donne | 15 | |
| 9291388600 | Confessional poetry | A 20th century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life |  | 16 |
| 9291393405 | Didactic | A form of fiction/nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking EX: Animal Farm by George Orwell |  | 17 |
| 9291434036 | Epanalepsis | Device of repetition in which the same expression (single word of phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence EX: "Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire |  | 18 |
| 9291444353 | Epigraph | A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of a theme EX: F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a quote at the beginning of The Great Gatsby "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." |  | 19 |
| 9291474335 | Epistrophe | Device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (opposite of anaphora) |  | 20 |
| 9291485562 | Epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality |  | 21 |
| 9291491095 | Homeric epithet | A compound adjective used with a person or thing EX: "swift-footed Achilles" "rosy-fingered dawn" | 22 | |
| 9291521002 | Explication | Act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language |  | 23 |
| 9291554488 | Farce | A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations EX: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett | 24 | |
| 9291595627 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character; often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero EX: Draco Malfoy |  | 25 |
| 9291618806 | Hypotactic | Sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationship between them EX: Everything will be alright because mother said so. | 26 | |
| 9291636776 | Inversion | The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase |  | 27 |
| 9291658298 | Verbal irony | This occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else |  | 28 |
| 9291904804 | Situational irony | This takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen |  | 29 |
| 9291914417 | Dramatic irony | This is so called because it is often used on stage; a character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better |  | 30 |
| 9291997065 | Juxtaposition | Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit |  | 31 |
| 9292179355 | Litotes | A form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form |  | 32 |
| 9292185741 | Loose sentence | One in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units |  | 33 |
| 9292192713 | Lyric poem | A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker | 34 | |
| 9292196950 | Implied metaphor | A type of metaphor that does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison EX: Andy's wife asked him to fetch their dinner. (Compares Andy to a dog) | 35 | |
| 9292208829 | Extended metaphor | A type of metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it EX: The world is a stage, where everyone is a player, and then the curtain falls. | 36 | |
| 9292219460 | Dead metaphor | A type of metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid EX: Eye of the storm |  | 37 |
| 9292225563 | Mixed metaphor | A type of metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible EX: We have to get all our ducks on the same page. | 38 | |
| 9292255405 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it EX: The White House called for a press conference. |  | 39 |
| 9292261160 | Motif | A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme |  | 40 |
| 9292277929 | Koan | A paradox used in Zen Buddhism to gain intuitive knowledge EX: When you can do nothing, what can you do? | 41 | |
| 9292300599 | Paratactic sentence | A sentence that simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences (different from asyndeton because of use of conjunctions) EX: Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline. | 42 | |
| 9292329326 | Periodic | A sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements EX: With low taxes, beautiful views and a mild climate, this city is a great place to live. | 43 | |
| 9292348448 | Polysyndeton | A sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series EX: X and Y and Z (instead of X, Y, and Z) |  | 44 |
| 9292354013 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole EX: I'm paying with plastic (credit card). | 45 | |
| 9292425779 | Syntactic fluency | Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length | 46 | |
| 9292433703 | Syntactic permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved; often difficult for a reader to follow |  | 47 |
| 9292451485 | Telegraphic sentence | A sentence shorter than five words in length |  | 48 |
| 9292453515 | Tricolon | A sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses | | 49 |
