| __ | 1. | Allegory | | A. | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. |
| __ | 2. | Allusion | | B. | An indirect reference |
| __ | 3. | Antecedent | | C. | Word choice |
| __ | 4. | Aphorism | | D. | Emotional association with a word |
| __ | 5. | Colloquialism | | E. | Ordinary or familiar conversation |
| __ | 6. | Connotation | | F. | The literal or explicit meaning of a word |
| __ | 7. | Denotation | | G. | The diction used by a certain group or profession |
| __ | 8. | Diction | | H. | fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a lesson/moral |
| __ | 9. | Didactic | | I. | Story in which characters, objects and events are symbolic |
| __ | 10. | Jargon | | J. | "God helps those who help themselves." |
| __ | 11. | Ellipsis | | A. | The deliberate omission of a word or phrase |
| __ | 12. | Euphemism | | B. | Replacing a word/idea with a related concept |
| __ | 13. | Imagery | | C. | A more agreeable, less offensive substitute of words/phrases |
| __ | 14. | Irony | | D. | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by its parts |
| __ | 15. | Juxtaposition | | E. | A word/words used to create a picture in the reader's mind |
| __ | 16. | Metonymy | | F. | When what happens is not what is expected |
| __ | 17. | Mood | | G. | A recurrent idea in a piece of literature/text |
| __ | 18. | Motif | | H. | Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison |
| __ | 19. | Oxymoron | | I. | When two contradictory terms are placed together as truth |
| __ | 20. | Synecdoche | | J. | atmosphere created in a text and accomplished by diction |