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| 158582721 | Allegory | A fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts | |
| 158582723 | Alliteration | The repetition of usually initial consonant in two or more neighboring words or syllables | |
| 158582725 | Allusion | A passing reference to a familiar person, place, or thing drawn from history, the Bible, mythology or literature | |
| 158582727 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses | |
| 158582729 | Aphorism | A concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment | |
| 158582731 | Bombast | Language that is overly rhetorical (pompous); especially when considered in context | |
| 158582733 | Chiasmus | A formulation of antithesis in which the second half of the statement inverts the word order of the first half- AB/BA | |
| 158582734 | Circumlocution | A roundabout or indirect way of speaking: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea | |
| 158582735 | Concrete Language | Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities. | |
| 158582736 | Anecdote | A brief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident | |
| 158582737 | Connotation | The associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | |
| 158582738 | Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word, the literal meaning | |
| 158582739 | Ellipsis | A rhetorical device in which the words are consciously omitted, perhaps because their meaning can be inferred | |
| 158582740 | Epigraph | A quotation or motto at the beginning of a book or chapter | |
| 158582741 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt | |
| 158582742 | Diction | Choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness | |
| 158582743 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor, or implied comparison, that is sustained for several lines that becomes the controlling image of an entire poem | |
| 158582744 | Figurative Language | A term for all uses of language that imply imaginative comparison | |
| 158582745 | Hyperbole | Obvious, extravagant, exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to be taken literally, but used figuratively to create humor or emphasis | |
| 158582746 | Imagery | The making of "picture in words": appeals to senses of taste, smell, hearing, and touch, and to internal feelings, as well as the sense of sight | |
| 158582747 | Inverted Sentence | A sentence in which the subject follows the verb | |
| 158582748 | Malapropism | The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound but quite different in meaning | |
| 158582749 | Metaphor | A figure of speech: and implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another dissimilar thing | |
| 158582750 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that associated with it | |
| 158582751 | Mood | The climate of feeling in a literary work | |
| 158582752 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox | |
| 158582753 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing being named | |
| 158582754 | Paradox | A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to the common sense and yet is perhaps true | |
| 158582755 | Parallelism | The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form | |
| 158582756 | Personification | A figure of speech in which human characteristics and sensibilities are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces or abstract ideas | |
| 158582757 | Point of View | The particular perspective from which a story is told | |
| 158582758 | Pun | A form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on word with two or more meanings | |
| 158582759 | Rhetoric | The art of speaking or writing effectively: the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion | |
| 158582760 | Rhetorical Question | A question whose answer is obvious | |
| 158582761 | Satire | A term used to describe any form or literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism for the purpose of ridiculing folly, vice, stupidity-the whole range of human foibles and frailties- in individual institutions | |
| 158582762 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare to essentially different objects, actions, or attributes that share some aspect of similarity | |
| 158582763 | Situational Irony | Refers to the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs | |
| 158582764 | Style | A writer's characteristic way of saying things | |
| 158582765 | Syllogism | An argument that utilizes deductive reasoning and consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and conclusion | |
| 158582766 | Symbol | Anything that signifies, or stands for, something else | |
| 158582767 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing | |
| 158582768 | Syntax | The way words are arranged in a sentence | |
| 158582769 | Theme | The central idea of a piece of work | |
| 158582770 | Tone | The reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject, characters, and readers | |
| 158582771 | Understatement | A type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is | |
| 158582772 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which there is a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant |