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| 7270149578 | Abstract | Opposed to concrete not qualifiable | 0 | |
| 7270149579 | ad hominem | Directed to or appealing to feelings or prejudices instead of to intellect or reason. | 1 | |
| 7270149580 | Aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty(the study of beauty) | 2 | |
| 7270149581 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 3 | |
| 7270920578 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 4 | |
| 7270920579 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 5 | |
| 7270920580 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 6 | |
| 7270920581 | Anachronism | something out of place in time | 7 | |
| 7270920582 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 8 | |
| 7270920583 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 9 | |
| 7270920584 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 10 | |
| 7270920585 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 11 | |
| 7270920586 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 12 | |
| 7270920587 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 13 | |
| 7270920588 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement | 14 | |
| 7270920589 | Apostrophe | a direct address to an absent listener or to the reader | 15 | |
| 7270920590 | Archetype | A blocked off memory of our past, a type of struggle or character to which a culture relates without prior knowledge | 16 | |
| 7270920591 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 17 | |
| 7271266551 | Atmosphere | Emotional feeling or mood of a place,scene or event | 18 | |
| 7271266552 | Begging the question | A fallacy in reasoning which omits the minor premise and goes directly to the conclusion | 19 | |
| 7271266553 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | 20 | |
| 7271266554 | Colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary | 21 | |
| 7271266555 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor (odd) | 22 | |
| 7271266556 | Concrete | Opposed to abstract; quantifiable | 23 | |
| 7271266557 | deductive reasoning | reasoning from the general to the specific | 24 | |
| 7271266558 | Detail | Specifically described items placed in a work for effect and meaning | 25 | |
| 7271266559 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 26 | |
| 7271266560 | Didactic | A teaching type of tone, usually lesson-like or boring in nature (like drivers Ed films) | 27 | |
| 7271266561 | Dystopia | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful | 28 | |
| 7271266562 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 29 | |
| 7271266563 | Ethos | Characteristic spirit or ideal that informs a work | 30 | |
| 7271266564 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 31 | |
| 7271266565 | figurative language | language employing one or more figures of speech | 32 | |
| 7271266566 | Foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | 33 | |
| 7271266567 | Genre | Particular type or category of writing such as tragedy, comedy, epic, short story, historical, fiction,ect | 34 | |
| 7271266568 | Hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 35 | |
| 7271266569 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 36 | |
| 7271266570 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 37 | |
| 7277460140 | inductive reasoning | specific to general | 38 | |
| 7277460141 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 39 | |
| 7277460142 | Irony | the use of words to express something other than the literal meaning | 40 | |
| 7277460143 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 41 | |
| 7277460144 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 42 | |
| 7277460145 | Metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. | 43 | |
| 7277460146 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 44 | |
| 7277460147 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 45 | |
| 7277460148 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 46 | |
| 7277460149 | Oxymoron | It is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. | 47 | |
| 7277460150 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 48 | |
| 7277460151 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 49 | |
| 7277460152 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 50 | |
| 7277460153 | pedantic | pompous; self-important; making a show of knowledge | 51 | |
| 7277460154 | periodic sentence | Sentence not grammatically complete until the end | 52 | |
| 7277460155 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 53 | |
| 7277460156 | Plot | Sequence of events in a story | 54 | |
| 7277460157 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 55 | |
| 7277460158 | Protagonist | the main character in a literary work | 56 | |
| 7277460159 | Realism | artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy | 57 | |
| 7278449603 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 58 | |
| 7277460160 | Rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively | 59 | |
| 7277460161 | rhetorical devices | techniques that help writers and speakers enhance their arguments; skillful use of words | 60 | |
| 7277460162 | rhetorical features | All parts of tone: diction, imagery, details, language, and sentence structure | 61 | |
| 7278449604 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 62 | |
| 7277460163 | Rhetorical shift | Changing from one tone, attitude, or distance to another | 63 | |
| 7277460164 | strategy | a plan or method for achieving a goal | 64 | |
| 7277507429 | Rhetorical structure | To analyze study and elevate rhetorical structure you must examine images details and arguments | 65 | |
| 7277507430 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 66 | |
| 7277507431 | Simile | comparing two things using like or as | 67 | |
| 7277507432 | Speaker | The person or group who creates a text | 68 | |
| 7277507433 | stylistic devices | figures of speech and tropes that are used to shape the style of a message | 69 | |
| 7277507434 | Syllogism | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. | 70 | |
| 7277507435 | Symbol | something that represents something else | 71 | |
| 7277507436 | Synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object | 72 |
