| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| Irony (Dramatic) | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
| Tone | any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, and source of the author |
| Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| Meter | poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses |
| Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as |
| Pastoral Imagery | describing the joys or sorrows |
| Allegory | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms |
| Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions |
| Oxymoron | A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect: |
| Vile | highly offensive, unpleasant, or objectionable |
| Animism | the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls |
| Circumspect | watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent |
| pathos | the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion. |
| bulwark | a wall of earth or other material built for defense |
| egotism | excessive and objectionable reference to oneself in conversation or writing; conceit; boastfulness |
| ridicule | speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; |
| triviality | the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous |
| superficiality | being at, on, or near the surface;external or outward |
| repartee | a quick, witty reply |
| aura | a distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere |
| idiosyncratic | a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual |
| idolatry | the religious worship of idols |
| mendacious | telling lies, habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful |
| syllogism | an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument |
| antithesis | opposition; contrast |
| duality | The quality or character of being twofold |
| equivoacte | equivoacte |
| direct object | A word or phrase in a sentence referring to the person or thing receiving the action of a transitive verb |
| appositive | a word or phrase in apposition |
| subject | a branch which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation |
| indirect object | An object indirectly affected by the action of a verb |
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