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| allusion | Referring to literature, art or history in a piece of literature |
| analogy | Reasoning or explaining from parallel cases, inferring that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others |
| anaphora | Type of repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, sentences, clauses or phrases |
| diction | Word choices made by an author to create meaning or tone. |
| euphemism | He act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |
| hyperbole | An exaggerated statement |
| idiom | An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words |
| imagery | The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions , or ideas |
| irony | The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning: a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance. |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common |
| onomatopoeia | Sound words |
| oxymoron | A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear side by side |
| paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self -contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
| personification | Giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| pun | Play on words that are spelled the same, but mean different things |
| satire | Words in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit |
| simile | A comparison using like or as to compare two things |
| symbol | Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible |
| theme | An overriding message in a literary work |
| tone | The attitude of the author in a literary work. |
