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| 14666199605 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 0 | |
| 14666201287 | eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased | 1 | |
| 14666204123 | bildungsroman | a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character | 2 | |
| 14666206293 | satire | literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn | 3 | |
| 14666210638 | syllogism | deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion | 4 | |
| 14666215802 | oxymoron | combination of contradictory or incongruous words | 5 | |
| 14666218847 | asyndeton | omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses | 6 | |
| 14666222781 | prose | the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing | 7 | |
| 14666224581 | theme | subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation | 8 | |
| 14666226795 | tone | style or manner of expression in speaking and writing | 9 | |
| 14666228935 | genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content | 10 | |
| 14666231589 | euphemism | substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant | 11 | |
| 14666235161 | anadiplosis | repetition of a prominent and usually the last word in one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next | 12 | |
| 14666254892 | parallelism | repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect | 13 | |
| 14666256256 | motif | dominant and recurring idea of central theme | 14 | |
| 14666257876 | epigraph | quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme | 15 | |
| 14666270317 | antihero | a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities | 16 | |
| 14666272272 | expletive | syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense | 17 | |
| 14666276892 | periodic sentence | a usually complex sentence that has no subordinate or trailing elements following its principal clause (as in "yesterday while I was walking down the street, I saw him") | 18 | |
| 14666278384 | parody | literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule | 19 | |
| 14666281080 | epitaph | a brief statement commemorating or epitomizing a deceased person or something past | 20 | |
| 14666282725 | epistolary | lectionary containing a body of liturgical epistles (letters) | 21 | |
| 14666285481 | foil | someone or something that serves as a contrast to another | 22 | |
| 14666287919 | polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions in close succession ex. "we have ships and men and money" | 23 | |
| 14666292586 | isocolon | period consisting of a cola (plural of colon) of equal length | 24 | |
| 14666296037 | inductive | logical assumption or process of assuming hit what is true for a single specimen or example is also true for other specimens or examples of the same type | 25 | |
| 14666301232 | in media res | refers to the classical tradition of opening an epic not in the chronological order at which the sequence of events started, but rather at the midway point of the story | 26 | |
| 14666308114 | alliteration | repetition of usually ignition constant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables | 27 | |
| 14666310972 | consonance | reference or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels | 28 | |
| 14666313795 | invective | insulting or abusive language | 29 | |
| 14666315974 | persona | character assumed by an author in a written work | 30 | |
| 14666318906 | syntax | way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses) | 31 | |
| 14666321276 | foreshadow | represent, indicate, or typify beforehand | 32 | |
| 14666324638 | personification | attribution of personal qualities (especially representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form) | 33 | |
| 14666328732 | aside | few words/short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other characters pretend they cannot hear the speaker's words | 34 | |
| 14666332134 | aesthetic | literary movement that encourages critical or artistic focus on the experience of beauty rather than focuses on didactic messages or seeking truth | 35 | |
| 14666340722 | assonance | repeating identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllables) in nearby words | 36 | |
| 14666344143 | catharsis | emotional discharge that brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety | 37 | |
| 14666347893 | imagery | signifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a literary work, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor | 38 | |
| 14666354234 | epiphany | term used to signify a manifestation of God's presence in the world | 39 | |
| 14666356253 | diction | writer's choice of a particular word as opposed to others | 40 | |
| 14673071465 | deductive | progress of logic in which a thinker takes a true for a large, general category and assumes that specific individual examples fitting with the general category obey the same rule | 41 | |
| 14673073842 | mood | feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind especially the predominating atmosphere or tone of literary work | 42 | |
| 14673080548 | protagonist | main character in a work, on whom the author focuses most of the narrative attention | 43 | |
| 14673082054 | realism | generally, any artistic or literary portrayal of life in a faithful, accurate manner, unclouded by false ideals, literary conventions, or misplaced esthetic glorification and beautification of the world | 44 | |
| 14673086479 | thesis | argument, either overt or implicit, that a writer develops and supports | 45 | |
| 14673090345 | perspective | point of view or general standpoint from which different things are viewed, physically or mentally; the appearance to the eye of various objects at a given time, place, or distance | 46 | |
| 14673091998 | assertion | confident and forceful statement of fact or belief | 47 | |
| 14673093859 | voice | expresses the narrator or author's emotions, attitudes, tone, and point of view through artful, well thought out use of word choice and diction | 48 | |
| 14673099803 | contradiction | proposition, statement, or phrase that asserts or implies both the truth and falsity of something | 49 | |
| 14673105484 | apostrophe | addressing of usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically | 50 | |
| 14673107208 | aphorism | terse formulation of a truth or sentiment | 51 | |
| 14673108273 | anecdote | usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident | 52 | |
| 14673110808 | nostalgic | longing for or thinking fondly of a past time or condition | 53 | |
| 14673113606 | vernacular | language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region | 54 | |
| 14673118558 | allusion | reference that a writer makes with the assumption that the reader understands what it means (biblical, historical, mythological, etc) | 55 | |
| 14673123208 | connotation | the implied meaning of a word; words can broadly have positive, negative, and neutral connotations | 56 | |
| 14673126099 | denotation | literal, dictionary-definition meaning of a word | 57 | |
| 14673126982 | allegory | using characters of story elements to symbolically represent an abstraction | 58 | |
| 14673128674 | audience | who the author is directing his or her message towards | 59 | |
| 14673131196 | rhetorical | of, relating to, or concerned with the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 60 | |
| 14673133896 | ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning | 61 | |
| 14673143226 | irony | use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning | 62 | |
| 14673146027 | zeugma | use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one | 63 | |
| 14673148193 | elegy | song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead | 64 | |
| 14673149794 | juxtaposition | act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect | 65 | |
| 14673153382 | colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation (ex. "kind of" is used for "somewhat" | 66 | |
| 14673156673 | didactic | intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment | 67 | |
| 14673189651 | propaganda | spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, cause, or person | 68 | |
| 14673191255 | pathos | element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion | 69 | |
| 14673193484 | ethos | distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution | 70 | |
| 14673196932 | logos | reasons that in ancient Greek philosophy is the controlling principle in the universe | 71 | |
| 14673200806 | litote | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary | 72 | |
| 14673202970 | chiasmus | inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases | 73 | |
| 14673204412 | analogy | comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect | 74 | |
| 14673206640 | antagonist | one that contends with or opposes another adversary/opponent | 75 | |
| 14673208600 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 76 | |
| 14673209818 | utopia | place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions | 77 | |
| 14673213802 | onomatopoeia | use of words whose sound suggests the meaning | 78 |
