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encominums enthusiastic praise alacrity eagerness, promptness conceit metaphor, long and complicated comparison allegory narrative where everything represents something else anaphora repitition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines or sentences anecdote short simple story aphorism brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life asyndeton lack of conjunctions between words caricature descptriptive writing that greatly exaggerates features chiasmus figure of speech that reverses the order of words in phrases that would be the same connotation idea that is implied or suggested because of association in readers mind denotation literal meaning of a word didactic morally instructive, inclined to teach or moralize excessively epigram from inscription in greek, a concise witty statement that can stand alone epithet descriptive word added to someones name to describe a quality idyll a short, narritive about an idealized country life litotes a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite metonymy figure of speech where something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated withit paradox a statement that contradicts itself but turns out to be meaningful polemical a controversial arguement polysyndeton use of a number of conjunctions in close succession romanticism stressed immagination, emotion, freedom, love, and worship of nature strident having a shrill, irritating quality or character synecdoche figures of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole conundrum a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words aphorism a brief, clearly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life