| Understatement | | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word |
| Setting | | the action of repeating something that has already been said or written |
| Paradox | | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next |
| Foreshadowing | | visually descriptive or figurative language |
| Parable | | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought |
| Biography | | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant |
| Fable | | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes |
| Consonance | | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is |
| Alliteration | | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing |
| Internal Rhyme | | a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral |
| Apostrophe | | a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, esp. two undesirable ones |
| Oxymoron | | the subject of a talk, piece of writing, or an exhibition |
| Jargon | | Missing phrase2 - 12 |
| Didactic | | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) |
| Simile | | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly |
| Sonnet | | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand |
| Tone | | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive |
| Cliché | | an account of someone's life written by someone else |
| Assonance | | the place or type of surroundings where an event takes place |
| Rhyme | | knowing everything |
| Allusion | | a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing |
| Satire | | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson |
| Repetition | | the recurrence of similar sounds, esp. consonants, in close proximity |
| Dilemma | | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
| Irony | | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
| Direct Presentation | | the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernable |
| First Person | | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect |
| Colloquialism | | a manner of expression in writing |
| Ballad | | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
| Onomatopoeia | | a serious disagreement or argument |
| Euphemism | | Missing phrase2 - 43 |
| Pun | | Missing phrase2 - 29 |
| Stereotype | | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words |
| Ode | | Missing phrase2 - 28 |
| Conflict | | a tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements |
| Omniscient | | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
| Contrast | | Missing phrase2 - 35 |
| Parody | | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
| Analogy | | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman |
| Personification | | Missing phrase2 - 16 |
| Flashback | | the state of being strikingly different from something else |
| Imagery | | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject |
| Allegory | | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one found in ordinary or familiar conversation |
| Dissonance | | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices |
| Anecdote | | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
| Hyperbole | | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story |
| Theme | | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification |
| Metaphor | | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
| Metonymy | | repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
