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| 14633066155 | allegory | a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning | 0 | |
| 14633066156 | alliteration | a poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants | 1 | |
| 14633066157 | allusion | a reference made to something that is not directly mentioned | 2 | |
| 14633066160 | anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect | 3 | |
| 14633066162 | antithesis | the complete or exact opposite of something; a use of words or phrases that contrast with each other to create a balanced effect | 4 | |
| 14633066165 | assonance | the similarity of two or more vowel sounds in words that are close together | 5 | |
| 14633066171 | connotation | the implying or suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or phrase apart from the literal or main meaning | 6 | |
| 14633066173 | denotation | the most specific or literal meaning of a word, as opposed to its figurative senses or connotations | 7 | |
| 14633066174 | diction | choice of words to fit their context | 8 | |
| 14633066176 | dramatic irony | a situation in which the audience has a fuller knowledge of what is happening in a drama than a character does | 9 | |
| 14633066180 | hyperbole | deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect, e.g. "I could eat a million of these" | 10 | |
| 14633066183 | litotes | a deliberate understatement, often expressed negatively, as in "I am not unmindful of your devotion" | 11 | |
| 14633066185 | metaphor | the use to describe somebody or something of a word or phrase that is not meant literally but by means of a vivid comparison expresses something about him, her, or it, e.g. saying that somebody is a snake | 12 | |
| 14633066186 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which an attribute of something is used to stand for the thing itself, e.g. "laurels" when it stands for "glory" or "brass" when it stands for "military officers" | 13 | |
| 14633066188 | onomatopoeia | the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with something, e.g. "hiss" and "buzz" | 14 | |
| 14633066191 | parallelism | the deliberate repetition of words or sentence structures for effect | 15 | |
| 14633066195 | personification | a representation of an abstract quality or notion as a human being; the attribution of human qualities to objects or abstract notions | 16 | |
| 14633066198 | prose | writing or speech in its normal continuous form, without the rhythmic or visual line structure of poetry | 17 | |
| 14633066199 | rhetoric | speech or writing that communicates its point persuasively | 18 | |
| 14633066202 | situational irony | incongruity between what actually happens and what might be expected to happen, especially when this disparity seems absurd or laughable | 19 | |
| 14633066207 | symbolism | the use of something that stands for or represents something else to invest things with a representative meaning or to represent something abstract by something concrete | 20 | |
| 14633066208 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which the word for part of something is used to mean the whole, e.g. "sail" for "boat," or vice versa | 21 | |
| 14633066210 | syntax | the ordering of and relationship between the words and other structural elements in phrases and sentences | 22 | |
| 14633066211 | theme | the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 23 | |
| 14633066213 | tone | the general quality or character of something as an indicator of the attitude or view of the person who produced it | 24 | |
| 14633066214 | verbal irony | humor based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning | 25 | |
| 14633086484 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 26 | |
| 14633089239 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 27 | |
| 14633091187 | Polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root | 28 | |
| 14633092390 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 29 | |
| 14633094547 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or phrases | 30 | |
| 14633098747 | Ethos | the persuasive appeal of one's character, credibility, or expertise | 31 | |
| 14633104144 | figurative language | Use of language in a non-literal way | 32 | |
| 14633106828 | Image | Description using sensory details | 33 | |
| 14633109966 | Isocolon | Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length | 34 | |
| 14633111847 | Irony | Reality is different from what it appears to be or what is anticipated | 35 | |
| 14633115282 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 36 |
