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| 7389026147 | Cliché | A trite, overused, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse | 0 | |
| 7389026148 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | Characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal; use of slang | 1 | |
| 7389026149 | Conceit | A fanciful expression usually in the form of an extended metaphor or analogy; author is showing intellectual cleverness | 2 | |
| 7389026150 | Concrete detail/Concrete language | Detailed information, facts, data, and specific knowledge offered to describe, explain, or justify something | 3 | |
| 7389026151 | Connotation | The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning; nonliteral meaning | 4 | |
| 7389026152 | Synecdoche | Term used to represent a part of a whole | 5 | |
| 7389026153 | Syntax | The setup of phrases and words that creates a well-formed sentence; word choice- grouping of words | 6 | |
| 7389026154 | Theme | The overall subject of a work of writing, a conversation, or someone's thoughts | 7 | |
| 7389026155 | Abstract language | Vocabulary that signifies a concept, quality, or abstract idea | 8 | |
| 7389026156 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 9 | |
| 7389026157 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 10 | |
| 7389026158 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference; a direct or indirect reference to something commonly known | 11 | |
| 7389026159 | Ambiguity | A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning | 12 | |
| 7389026160 | Analogy | Comparison of two dissimilar things in which similarities are pointed out | 13 | |
| 7389026161 | Annotation | A brief summary, evaluation, or explanation of a work of literature or text | 14 | |
| 7389026162 | Antecedent | The word of which a pronoun refers to | 15 | |
| 7389026163 | Antithesis | A contrast or opposition of ideas by juxtaposition in balanced places | 16 | |
| 7389026164 | Aphorism | A short, generally accepted statement of truth/opinion | 17 | |
| 7389026165 | Appositive | A noun phrase or a noun that defines or explains another noun, which it follows (renaming the noun) | 18 | |
| 7389026166 | Apostrophe | As a literary device is when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party; Third party can be an individual, inanimate object, or an abstract concept | 19 | |
| 7389026167 | Atmosphere | Type of feelings that readers get from a narrative based on details such as settings, background, objects, and foreshadowing, etc.; entirety of a work | 20 | |
| 7389026168 | Attitude | The relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience | 21 | |
| 7389026169 | Clause | An independent, or main, clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence; A dependent, or subordinate clause, cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause | 22 | |
| 7389122171 | Ad hominem | Attacking a person or opponent's personal traits rather than his argument | 23 | |
| 7389122172 | Common knowledge | A system of shared beliefs or assumptions between a reader and an author; Does not need to be cited as a source | 24 | |
| 7389122173 | Epigraph | A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme | 25 | |
| 7389122174 | Grotesque | The subject matter of a work characterized by exaggeration, deformity, freakishness, and disorder; Also can be a style or genre | 26 | |
| 7389122175 | Parable | A short story used to teach a moral, religious, or spiritual lesson | 27 | |
| 7389122176 | Denotation | Strict, literal dictionary definition of a word | 28 | |
| 7389122177 | Dependent clause | A clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause; can't stand alone | 29 | |
| 7389122178 | Diction | The accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker; word choice- individual words, word arrangement; ex: formal or informal word choice, author's style | 30 | |
| 7389122179 | Didactic | Inclined to teach or lecture others; morals or ethics | 31 | |
| 7389122180 | Equivocation | The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself | 32 | |
| 7389122181 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt | 33 | |
| 7389891977 | Extended metaphor | A metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work; Occurs frequently throughout a work | 34 | |
| 7389891978 | Figurative language | Non-literal meaning | 35 | |
| 7389891979 | Genre | Major category into which a literary work fits; autobiography, biography, diaries, criticism, essays, journals, political, scientific, nature, fiction, poetry | 36 | |
| 7389891980 | Gerund | Verb ending in -ing that functions as a noun (ex: walking, hiking) | 37 | |
| 7389891981 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences | 38 | |
| 7389891982 | Devices of sound | Resources used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of poetry through the skillful use of sound | 39 | |
| 7389891983 | Ethical appeal | A method of persuasion that is based on the author's credibility | 40 | |
| 7389891984 | Jargon | The language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 41 | |
| 7389891985 | Persona | A person | 42 | |
| 7389891986 | Simile | A figure of speech comparing one subject to another using "like" or "as" | 43 | |
| 7389891987 | Stream of consciousness | A literary style in which the narrator describes through the thoughts of characters in a continuous flow | 44 | |
| 7389891988 | Style | The way an author uses words in literature through word choice, connotation, and tone; Classification or genre | 45 | |
| 7389891989 | Subordinate clause | A clause, followed by a conjunction, used to further describe the verb in the main clause | 46 | |
| 7389891990 | Syllogism | A conclusion assumed by two facts that share similar terms through an "if...and...then" statement; Major or minor premise that we draw conclusions from | 47 | |
| 7389891991 | Symbol/Symbolism | Mark or character used as a representation of an idea, group, object, or function/ The use of symbols to represent ideas, groups, objects, or functions; Natural, conventional, literary | 48 | |
| 7389891992 | Thesis | A statement that is made with the intention of being further proven | 49 | |
| 7389891993 | Tone | Describing author's attitude toward his/her material | 50 | |
| 7389891994 | Transition | The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another; To undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition; Links | 51 | |
| 7389891995 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 52 | |
| 7389891996 | Voice | Relationship between a sentence's subject and verb, active and passive style- sound of a writer's style | 53 | |
| 7389891997 | Wit | Elements in a literary work designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused | 54 | |
| 7389891998 | Trope | A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; To twist meaning | 55 | |
| 7389891999 | Causal relationship | A device used by writers to demonstrate the cause and effect relationship between two separate things | 56 | |
| 7389892000 | Epigram | A short saying or remark used to express an idea in a witty or enjoyable way | 57 | |
| 7389892001 | Freight train | Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions | 58 | |
| 7389892002 | Oversimplification | Writer denies complexity of issue in an argument, author leaves out part of the issues | 59 | |
| 7389892003 | Straw man | An illogical fallacy that is a form of argument based on refuting opponents' argument while refuting an argument that was not yet stated by that opponent; Diverts attention from real issues | 60 | |
| 7389892004 | Parallelism/Parallel Structure | Using a similar sentence or structure to highlight similar levels of importance, usually conjoined with "and" or "or"; Lists of verbs will always end with the same suffix; "Beside one another", idea or grammatical framing | 61 | |
| 7389892005 | Parody | A piece of writing that imitates the style of something else, usually in an intentionally humorous way | 62 | |
| 7389892006 | Pedantic | Writing bordered on lecturing, and is very scholarly, often to the point of being difficult to read; Overly focused on literary accuracy | 63 | |
| 7389892007 | Periodic sentences | Has the main predicate at the end of the sentence, and is used to provide emphasis, or even create suspense | 64 | |
| 7389892008 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman | 65 | |
| 7389892009 | Point of view | The narrator's position in relation to the story being told; 1st person narrative, 3rd person narrative- omniscient & limited omniscient | 66 | |
| 7389892010 | Predicate | The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject | 67 | |
| 7389892011 | Prose | Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure | 68 | |
| 7389892012 | Refute | To prove false, or wring by argument or evidence | 69 | |
| 7390520747 | Repetition | The act of doing, or exercising the same thing over and over; Sometimes to put emphasis on | 70 | |
| 7390520748 | Rhetoric | The art of speaking or writing effectively, persuasively, and eloquently | 71 | |
| 7390520749 | Sarcasm | A mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual; Greek meaning- "to tear flesh", intended to hurt | 72 | |
| 7390520750 | Satire | Text that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way | 73 | |
| 7390520751 | Semantics | The language used to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings; Branch of linguistics that studies a meaning of words | 74 | |
| 7390520752 | Begging the question | A logical fallacy, in which the conclusion of the argument is included in the premise | 75 | |
| 7390520753 | Emotional appeal | An argument that draws on the emotions and interests of the audience so they will be inclined to accept the speaker's argument | 76 | |
| 7390520754 | Exposition | The part of the story that sets the stage for the drama to follow: introducing the theme, setting, characters, and circumstances at the story's beginning | 77 | |
| 7390520755 | Objectivity | A lack of judgement, biased, or prejudice; Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | 78 | |
| 7390520756 | Soliloquy | A speech in which a character, alone of stage, expressed his or her thoughts and feelings aloud for the benefit of the audience, often in a revealing way | 79 | |
| 7390520757 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not intended to be taken literally | 80 | |
| 7390520758 | Imagery | The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in a way that appeals to one's physical senses | 81 | |
| 7390520759 | Inference/Infer | A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning / To conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements | 82 | |
| 7390520760 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language; Potty-mouth | 83 | |
| 7390520761 | Inversion | Literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter | 84 | |
| 7390520762 | Irony/Ironic | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is actually meant, or the difference in what appears to be and what is actually true; Verbal, situational, dramatic | 85 | |
| 7390520763 | Loose sentence | The sentence reveals the key information right away and unfolds loosely after that; The main idea of the sentence is presented first and is then followed by one or more subordinate clauses | 86 | |
| 7390520764 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity; A figure of speech that compares two unlike things | 87 | |
| 7390520765 | Mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work; Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 88 | |
| 7390520766 | Motif | A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition; Reoccurring image or word that unifies a piece | 89 | |
| 7390520767 | Narrative | A spoken or written account of connected events; A story | 90 | |
| 7390520768 | Non sequitur | A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement | 91 | |
| 7390520769 | Onamatopoeia | The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent | 92 | |
| 7390520770 | Oxymoron | A combination of contradictory or incongruous words | 93 | |
| 7390520771 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | 94 | |
| 7390520772 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event | 95 | |
| 7390520773 | Digression | A stylistic device authors employ to create a temporary departure from the main subject of the narrative to focus on apparently unrelated topics, explaining background topics | 96 | |
| 7390520774 | Explication | The process of analyzing a literary work in order to reveal its meaning | 97 | |
| 7390520775 | Homily | Any serious talk that is intended primarily for spiritual or moral edification rather than doctrinal instruction; Spiritual or moral advice | 98 | |
| 7390520776 | Red herring | Something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue | 99 | |
| 7746349628 | Dramatic irony | A technique in which the author lets the audience or reader in on a character's situation while the character himself remains in the dark. When used in a tragedy, dramatic irony is called tragic irony | 100 | |
| 7746349629 | Situational irony | A situation that is the opposite of what the reader expects | 101 | |
| 7746428858 | Verbal irony | A discrepancy between the true meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the written or spoken words | 102 |
