10553042462 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
10553042463 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
10555009852 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 2 | |
10555016380 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
10555018260 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person | 4 | |
10555104599 | Aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 5 | |
10555107490 | Assonance | Repeating of similar vowel sounds | 6 | |
10555109376 | Antithesis | Opposite | 7 | |
10555112056 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 8 | |
10555112057 | Asyndeton | Absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 9 | |
10555115073 | Conciet | extended metaphor, continues to appear throughout entire work | 10 | |
10555115074 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 11 | |
10555117136 | cacophony | harsh sounds | 12 | |
10555117137 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 13 | |
10555119021 | Conosance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 14 | |
10555119022 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing | 15 | |
10555121415 | Chaismus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses | 16 | |
10555121416 | Denotation | dictionary definition | 17 | |
10555123153 | Didadic | instructive | 18 | |
10555124813 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 19 |
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