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| 13773133781 | Allusion | an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work | 0 | |
| 13773133783 | anecdote | A brief recounting of a relevant episode. | 1 | |
| 13773133784 | comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood | 2 | |
| 13773133785 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 3 | |
| 13773133786 | Analogy | A comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables that are similar in some way | 4 | |
| 13773133787 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 5 | |
| 13773133789 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 6 | |
| 13773133791 | Metaphor | Making an implied comparison, not using "like" or "as" | 7 | |
| 13773133793 | Metonymy | replacing the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 8 | |
| 13773133795 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 9 | |
| 13773133797 | Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 10 | |
| 13773133799 | Synesthesia | a description involving a "crossing of the senses" | 11 | |
| 13773133801 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 12 | |
| 13773133803 | Foreshadowing | when the author gives hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | 13 | |
| 13773133804 | Imagery | words that are visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work, creating pictures in the reader's mind | 14 | |
| 13773133805 | Irony | when the opposite of what you expect to happen does/a contrast between expectation and reality | 15 | |
| 13773133806 | verbal irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 16 | |
| 13773133807 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 17 | |
| 13773133808 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 18 | |
| 13773133809 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 19 | |
| 13773133810 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 20 | |
| 13773133811 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 21 | |
| 13773133813 | poetic devices | a device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences, or lines | 22 | |
| 13773133814 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 23 | |
| 13773133816 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 24 | |
| 13773133818 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 25 | |
| 13773133820 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds | 26 | |
| 13773133822 | internal rhyme | When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line | 27 | |
| 13773133823 | slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme | 28 | |
| 13773133824 | end rhyme | when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same (i.e. "roses are red, violets are blue/sugar is sweet, and so are you") | 29 | |
| 13773133825 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem | 30 | |
| 13773133826 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way. | 31 | |
| 13773133828 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 32 | |
| 13773133829 | Theme | central idea or message in a work of literature | 33 | |
| 13773133830 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 34 |
