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| 16138931908 | Allusion | a set of abstract ideas (or some philosophical statement or argument) is personified through human characters and specific events in which they engage. | 0 | |
| 16138952842 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs | 1 | |
| 16138984648 | antithesis | contradictory ideas, words, or clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure | 2 | |
| 16139004932 | apostrophe | a direct address to an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love | 3 | |
| 16139019463 | blank verse | lines of iambic pentameter, which of all verse forms sounds most like natural speech | 4 | |
| 16139038505 | connotation | the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning; may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes | 5 | |
| 16139051391 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 6 | |
| 16139057566 | epithet | the use of a single-word adjective linked to a person or thing to describe a specific quality associated with it | 7 | |
| 16139071249 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 8 | |
| 16139081650 | free verse | poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form but is characterized by irregularity in the length of the lines and a lack of a regular metrical pattern and rhyme | 9 | |
| 16139132062 | imagery | language that appeals to one of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell.) | 10 | |
| 16139138421 | juxtaposition | placing dissimilar items, description, or ideas close together or side by side, especially for comparison | 11 | |
| 16139194940 | metaphor | an implicit comparison is made between two things that are essentially dissimilar | 12 | |
| 16139205829 | metonymy | the name of one thing used to represent something else with which it is associated | 13 | |
| 16139222285 | oxymoron | a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction | 14 | |
| 16139230859 | paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 15 | |
| 16139248666 | parallelism | the repetition within a sentence (or several sentences within the same paragraph) of the same type of grammatical unit | 16 | |
| 16139278511 | pun | using one word to suggest two different meanings | 17 | |
| 16139281525 | simile | the use of like or as to compare two different things and to express that they're similar or share a certain quality | 18 | |
| 16139491428 | synecdoche | a concrete, complex entity is represented by a single part (uses one part to refer to a more complex concrete whole | 19 |
