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| 7234095502 | Personification | (Descriptive) A figure of speech where human characteristics are given to non human things such as animals, objects, etc. | 0 | |
| 7234095503 | Extended Metaphor | (Descriptive) An extended comparison between two unlike things which is developed over several sentences or paragraphs. Example: ""It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts." | 1 | |
| 7234095504 | Allusion | (Descriptive) A reference within a piece of literature to another work of literature, art, or music or to a well known historical event, person, or place. Example: "Wisconsin is the Cinderella team in this year's basketball tournament." | 2 | |
| 7234095505 | Anaphora | (Syntactical) A type of parallelism where repetition of a word/words occurs at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Example: ""My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration." | 3 | |
| 7234095506 | Anastrophe (Inversion) | (Syntactical) Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. | 4 | |
| 7234095507 | Antithesis / Juxtaposition | (Syntactical) Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. Example: ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness ..." | 5 | |
| 7234095508 | Appositive | (Syntactical) A grammatical construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed in proximity with another as an explanation. Example: "The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table." | 6 | |
| 7234095509 | Parallelism | (Syntactical) Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other. Example: ""My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." | 7 | |
| 7234095510 | Periodic Sentence | (Syntactical) A sentence where the point or the subject is not clear until the end. Example: "In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued." | 8 | |
| 7234095511 | Polysyndeton / Freight Train | (Syntactical) Deliberate use of many conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted; opposite of asyndenton. Example: "Today, my teacher gave me math homework and science homework and reading homework and a project to complete." | 9 | |
| 7234095512 | Zeugma | (Syntactical) Artfully using a single verb to refer to two different objects in an ungrammatical but striking way, or artfully using an adjective to refer to two separate nouns, even though the adjective would logically only be appropriate for one of the two. Example: ""You held your breath and the door for me." | 10 | |
| 7234095513 | Conceit | (Sundries) An unusual type of metaphor with an extreme or unexpected comparison between two very dissimilar ideas, objects or things. Example is "I'm fit as a fiddle." which compares two unexpected items together. | 11 | |
| 7234095514 | Oxymoron | (Sundries) A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression. Example: "jumbo shrimp" | 12 | |
| 7234095515 | Paradox | (Sundries)A situation where something seems implausible but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 13 | |
| 7234095516 | Alliteration | (Sundries) The occurrence of the same sound at the start of words. | 14 | |
| 7234095517 | Apostrophe | (Figurative) A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 15 | |
| 7234095518 | Reification | (Figurative) A form of personification that treats an abstract concept as though it were real. | 16 | |
| 7234095519 | Synecdoche | (Figurative) A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the badge for police officer). | 17 | |
| 7234095520 | Metonymy | (Figurative) A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely related (such as "crown" or "royalty"). | 18 | |
| 7234095521 | Euphemism | (Diction) A polite or vague word or phrase used to replace another word or phrase that is thought of as too direct or rude ("passed away" instead of "died"). | 19 | |
| 7234095522 | Litotes | (Diction) A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. The phrase "not bad" is an example. | 20 | |
| 7234095523 | Colloquialism | (Diction) A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y'all, ain't). | 21 | |
| 7234095524 | Satire | (Satire) A literary work in which the author ridicules the vices and follies of mankind, usually for the purpose of producing some change in attitude or action. | 22 | |
| 7234095525 | Parody | (Satire) A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 23 | |
| 7234095526 | Understatement | (Satire) A statement that downplays the intended meaning. | 24 | |
| 7234095527 | Hyperbole | (Satire) Gross exaggeration for effect. Example: "I have a TON of homework tonight!" | 25 | |
| 7234095528 | Pun | (Satire) Play on words that uses the different meanings of a word to convey humor or a point. No sarcasm. Example: "I thought Santa was going to be late, but he arrived in the Nick of time." | 26 | |
| 7234095529 | Irony | (Satire) An unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen. | 27 | |
| 7234095530 | Anachronism | (Satire) An event or detail existing out of its proper time in history. For example if someone painted the thinker Aristotle and it shows him wearing a wrist watch it would be an example of this. | 28 |
