| 6942946412 | Abstract Language | describes ideas and qualities, rather than observable or specific things | | 0 |
| 6942946413 | Ad Hominem | attack on one's opponent, rather than the opponent's argument | | 1 |
| 6942946414 | Allegory | symbolic story that has a second meaning beneath the surface one | | 2 |
| 6942946415 | Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in words | | 3 |
| 6942946416 | Allusion | indirect reference to famous events or characters from history, literature, or mythology | | 4 |
| 6942946417 | Ambiguity | event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way; intentional vagueness | | 5 |
| 6942946418 | Anachronism | placement of an event, person, thing out of its proper place in time | | 6 |
| 6942946419 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | | 7 |
| 6942946420 | Antithesis | juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas | | 8 |
| 6942946421 | Ethos | appeals to the audience's sense of morals or principles | | 9 |
| 6942946422 | Logos | appeals to the audience's sense of logic and reasoning | | 10 |
| 6942946423 | Pathos | appeals to the audience's emotions | | 11 |
| 6942946424 | Apostrophe | address to the dead as though they were living; to the inanimate as if animate; to the absent as if present | | 12 |
| 6942946425 | Argumentation | exploring a problem by examining all sides of it; persuasion through reason | | 13 |
| 6942946426 | Archetype | stereotype of literature | | 14 |
| 6942946427 | Assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds | | 15 |
| 6942946428 | Assumption | when details are not stated but must be inferred by the reader | | 16 |
| 6942946429 | Asyndeton | series of words separated by commas without conjunctions | | 17 |
| 6942946430 | Balance | construction in which both halves of the sentence have the same length and importance | | 18 |
| 6942946431 | Catharsis | cleansing release of unhealthy emotions | | 19 |
| 6942946432 | Causal Relationship | one thing results from another | | 20 |
| 6942946433 | Chiasmus | arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern XY-YX | | 21 |
| 6942946434 | Cliche | expression so often used its freshness and originality have worn off | | 22 |
| 6942946435 | Comic Relief | humor in the serious action of a tragedy; enriches the quality of the work | | 23 |
| 6942946436 | Concrete Language | describes specific, observable things rather than ideas or qualities | | 24 |
| 6942946437 | Connotation | emotions associated with a word | | 25 |
| 6942946438 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds; not limited to the first letter of words | | 26 |
| 6942946439 | Conventional | following traditional techniques of writing | | 27 |
| 6942946440 | Cumulative | sentence that begins with the main idea and expands on that idea with a series of details | | 28 |
| 6942946441 | Denotation | dictionary definition of a word | | 29 |
| 6942946442 | Formal Diction | used in serious books and lofty discourse | | 30 |
| 6942946443 | Informal Diction | found in relaxed but polite and cultivated conversation | | 31 |
| 6942946444 | Colloquial Diction | everyday usage that may contain terms accepted in a group but not universally acceptable | | 32 |
| 6942946445 | Slang | newly coined words that are not yet a part of formal usage | | 33 |
| 6942946446 | Didactic | literature designed to teach or instruct | | 34 |
| 6942946447 | Digression | temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing | | 35 |
| 6942946448 | Elegy | formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person | | 36 |
| 6942946449 | Elliptical | deliberate omission of words implied by context | | 37 |
| 6942946450 | Empathy | reader understands closely what the character is feeling | | 38 |
| 6942946451 | Enthymeme | syllogism (logical argument) in which the major premise is unstated but meant to be understood | | 39 |
| 6942946452 | Epithet | adjective used to point out a characteristic of a person or thing | | 40 |
| 6942946453 | Euphemism | mild word used to substitute an unpleasant or offensive word | | 41 |
| 6942946454 | Foreshadowing | method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come | | 42 |
| 6942946455 | Figurative Language | words that are inaccurate literally, but describe by calling to mind sensations or responses that the thing described evokes | | 43 |
| 6942946456 | Freight Train | sentence consisting of three or more short independent clauses joined by conjunctions | | 44 |
| 6942946457 | Generalization | basing a claim upon an isolated example or asserting that a claim is true rather than probable | | 45 |
| 6942946458 | Genre | major category into which a literary work fits | | 46 |
| 6942946459 | Grotesque | bizarre, incongruous, ugly, unnatural, or abnormal | | 47 |
| 6942946460 | Hyperbole | overstatement or exaggeration of facts | | 48 |
| 6942946461 | Idiom | use of words or grammatical construction peculiar to a given language, or an expression that cannot be translated literally into a second language | | 49 |
| 6942946462 | Imagery | use of language to represent sense experience | | 50 |
| 6942946463 | Auditory Imagery | use of language to represent an experience pertaining to sound | | 51 |
| 6942946464 | Gustatory Imagery | use of language to represent an experience pertaining to taste | | 52 |
| 6942946465 | Kinesthetic Imagery | use of language to represent an experience pertaining to the movement of muscles, tendons, or joints | | 53 |
| 6942946466 | Olfactory Imagery | use of language to represent an experience pertaining to smell | | 54 |
| 6942946467 | Tactile Imagery | use of language to represent an experience pertaining to touch | | 55 |
| 6942946468 | Visual Imagery | use of language to represent an experience pertaining to sight | | 56 |
| 6942946469 | Inversion | word order that places a modifier or verb before the subject | | 57 |
| 6942946470 | Situational Irony | contrast between what is normally expected and what actually occurs | | 58 |
| 6942946471 | Dramatic Irony | reader or audience knows more about the events of a story than the character in the story | | 59 |
| 6942946472 | Verbal Irony | what is said is the opposite of what is meant | | 60 |
| 6942946473 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for the purposes of examination | | 61 |
| 6942946474 | Litote | understatement that purposefully represents something as much less significant as it is, achieving an ironic effect | | 62 |
| 6942946475 | Loose Sentence | main clause comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units | | 63 |
| 6942946476 | Metaphor | comparison without using "like" or "as" | | 64 |
| 6942946477 | Metonymy | designation of one thing with something closely associated with it | | 65 |
| 6942946478 | Mood | atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work | | 66 |
| 6942946479 | Motif | frequently recurring character, incident, or concept in a work of literature | | 67 |
| 6942946480 | Negative-Positive | sentence that begins by stating what is not true and then ending by stating what is true | | 68 |
| 6942946481 | Onomatopoeia | word whose sound suggests its meaning | | 69 |
| 6942946482 | Oxymoron | paradox that combines terms normally seen as opposites | | 70 |
| 6942946483 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | | 71 |
| 6942946484 | Paradox | statement that appears contradictory yet expresses a truth when viewed from another angle | | 72 |
| 6942946485 | Parody | comic imitation of another work often for ridicule | | 73 |
| 6942946486 | Pedantic | scholarly, academic writing that borders on lecturing | | 74 |
| 6942946487 | Parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal flow of the sentence | | 75 |
| 6942946488 | Periodic Sentence | main clause comes last, preceded by dependent grammatical units | | 76 |
| 6942946489 | Polysyndeton | sentence that uses "and" or another conjunction (with no commas) to separate items in a series; X and Y and Z | | 77 |
| 6942946490 | Personification | attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts | | 78 |
| 6942946491 | Pun | play on words that utilizes a word's multiple meanings | | 79 |
| 6942946492 | Realism | faithful representation of reality to make a story more believable | | 80 |
| 6942946493 | Red Herring | when an author raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue | | 81 |
| 6942946494 | Rhetoric | art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | | 82 |
| 6942946495 | Rhetorical Criticism | analyses the techniques employed in a literary work to impose the author's view on the reader | | 83 |
| 6942946496 | Sarcasm | verbal irony that uses insincere praise to express bitter and caustic disapproval | | 84 |
| 6942946497 | Satire | used to arouse laughter at targets such as people or groups to expose human folly | | 85 |
| 6942946498 | Simile | comparison using "like" or "as" | | 86 |
| 6942946499 | Stream of Consciousness | writing technique that uses frequent illogical and incoherent digressions to reproduce the raw flow of consciousness | | 87 |
| 6942946500 | Structure | organization or arrangement of various elements in a work | | 88 |
| 6942946501 | Narrative Structure | chronological organization used to convey a story | | 89 |
| 6942946502 | Dramatic Structure | organization used in plays that consists of a series of scenes, each of which is presented in vivid detail | | 90 |
| 6942946503 | Discursive Structure | organization used in an argument or essay | | 91 |
| 6942946504 | Style | arrangement of words in a manner that expresses the author's individuality and his or her intent | | 92 |
| 6942946505 | Rhetorical Question | question used to emphasize a point; no answer is expected | | 93 |
| 6942946506 | Syllepsis | grammatical construction in which one word relates to two words in very different ways | | 94 |
| 6942946507 | Syllogism | format of a formal argument that consists of a major premise, minor premise, and conclusion | | 95 |
| 6942946508 | Symbol | character, object, or event in literature that represents something larger than itself | | 96 |
| 6942946509 | Synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole | | 97 |
| 6942946510 | Synesthesia | one sensory experience is described in terms of another sensory experience | | 98 |
| 6942946511 | Syntax | manner in which words are joined to make phrases, clauses, and sentences | | 99 |
| 6942946512 | Theme | main idea that the author expresses in a literary work | | 100 |
| 6942946513 | Thesis | claim or proposition that a writer must strive to prove effectively and thoroughly | | 101 |
| 6942946514 | Tone | attitude of the speaker of a work of literature expresses to the reader through language | | 102 |
| 6942946515 | Voice | total "sound" or "feel" of a writer's style that is present behind characters, narrators, and personae of literature | | 103 |
| 6942946516 | Wit | intellectual humor that suggests the speaker's verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks | | 104 |
| 6942946517 | Zeugma | writer uses one word to govern several successive words or clauses | | 105 |
