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| 9874847640 | abstract | ideas or general qualities of things; lacking vivid detail | 0 | |
| 9874847641 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, Biblical, the arts, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 1 | |
| 9874848756 | analogy | a comparison of two different things which are similar in some way | 2 | |
| 9874849389 | apostrophe | a device used wherein a character addresses a dead, absent, or imaginary person, thing, or personified abstraction | 3 | |
| 9874849948 | cliche | expression used so often that it has become hackneyed and lost its original impact | 4 | |
| 9874850699 | concrete | specific details to particular persons/ things; creates a clear image for the reader | 5 | |
| 9874851292 | conceit | an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things; most notable for its ingenuity | 6 | |
| 9874852236 | figurative language | a type of language employing figures of speech; cannot be taken literally or ONLY literally | 7 | |
| 9874853304 | imagery | the representation through language of sense experience | 8 | |
| 9874853971 | metaphor | a figure of speech that associates two unlike things; the representation of one thing by another | 9 | |
| 9874857080 | motif | a unifying element in an artistic work, especially any recurrent image, symbol, character type, subject or narrative detail | 10 | |
| 9874857957 | onomatopoeia | the creation or use of words that sound like what thy mean or seem to signify meaning through sound effects (like 'murmur', 'mumble', 'boom') | 11 | |
| 9874859369 | oxymoron | figure of speech that juxtaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to present an emphatic and dramatic paradox for rhetorical purpose or effect | 12 | |
| 9874861343 | paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements; upon closer inspection may be seen to contain an underlying truth | 13 | |
| 9874863179 | personification | a figure of speech or trope that bestows human characteristics upon anything nonhuman, from an abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism | 14 | |
| 9874871272 | simile | a figure of speech that compares two distinct things by using words such as 'like' and 'as' | 15 | |
| 9874871778 | symbol | something that means more than what it is; stands for or suggests something larger and more complex - often an idea or a range of interrelated ideas, attitudes, and practices | 16 | |
| 9874872904 | synecdoche | a figure or speech (or trope) in which a part of something is used to represent the whole, or occassionally, the whole is used to represent a part (like a car is referred to as 'wheels') | 17 |
