a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas
What is Allegory?
100
a play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word
What is Pun?
100
a recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work; a dominant them or central idea
What is Motif?
100
ideas or expressions that have become trite and tired from overuse
What is Cliche?
100
choice of words
What is Diction?
200
the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words
What is Alliteration?
200
the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it
What is Satire?
200
a condensed for of paradox in which to contradictory words are used together
What is an Oxymoron?
200
exaggeration or overstatement used for an effect
What is Hyperbole?
200
literal, dictionary meaning(s) of a word
What is Denotation?
300
a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature
What is Allusion?
300
a statement that intentionally appears to be self-contradictory, but that on closer inspection turns out to make sense
What is Paradox?
300
when one theme, idea, person, or object if paralleled against another
What is Juxtaposition?
300
associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meaning and are based on context
What is Connotation?
300
a prose restatement of the central idea(s) of a literary work or art in your own words
What is Paraphrase?
400
the opposite; contrast; exact opposite
What is Antithesis?
400
a humorous imitation of another, usually serious work
What is Parody?
400
assuming the same writing style as a canonical author
What is Emulation?
400
in a conversational manner that may include using slang expression not used by the culture at large
What is Colloquial?
400
the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener
What is Euphemism?
500
the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns
What is Syntax?
500
a figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole
What is Synecdoche?
500
a figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea
What is Metonymy?
500
comparison of two paris which have the same relationship
What is Analogy?
500
the repetition of the same vowel sounds in nearby words