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• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Anadiplosis

• Analogy

• Anaphora

• Antagonist

• Antithesis

• Aphorism

• Apostrophe

• Archetype

• Assonance

• Asyndeton

• Ballad

• Bandwagon

• Bathos

• Cadence

• Caricature

• Catharsis

• Characterization

• Chiasmus

• Climax

• Colloquialism

• Comedy

• Conflict

• Connotation

• Consonance

• Denotation

• Diction

• Didacticism

• Discourse

• Doppelgänger

• Double Entendre

• Ellipsis

• End Stopped Line

• Enjambment

• Eponym

• Euphemism

• Evidence

• Extended Metaphor

• Fantasy

• Farce

• Foil

• Foreshadowing

• Free Verse

• Hamartia

• Hook

• Hyperbole

• Hypophora

• Imagery

• Internal Rhyme

• Inversion

• Irony

• Jargon

• Juxtaposition

• Litotes

• Memoir

• Metaphor

• Meter

• Metonymy

• Mood

• Motif

• Myth

• Naturalism

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Parallelism

• Parody

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Personification

• Plot

• Point of View

• Prologue

• Propaganda

• Prose

• Pun

• Repetition

• Rhetorical Question

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Rising Action

• Sarcasm

• Satire

• Soliloquy

• Sonnet

• Stanza

• Stream of Consciousness

• Style

• Subplot

• Symbolism

• Synecdoche

• Synesthesia

• Tautology

• Theme

• Tone

• Tragedy

• Tragic Flaw

• Transition

• Verbal Irony

• Voice

• Zoomorphism