Blue lit terms 

allegory a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions

 anecdote a brief personal narrative, which focuses on a particular incident or event style the overall manner in which an individual writer expresses ideas

synecdoche using one part of an object to represent the entire object

 pedantic describing an excessive display of learning or scholarship

 satire the use of humor to emphasize human weaknesses or imperfections in social institutions sarcasm harsh, cutting language/tone designed to ridicule syllogism a logical argument in which a conclusion is based on a major primes and a minor premise irony a situation or statement where the truth is the opposite of appearances non sequitur an interference that does not logically follow from the premises ad hominem an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue motif a standard theme or dramatic situation, which recurs in various works antithesis a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced pathos the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity and sorrow imagery concrete, sensory details which contribute to the themes and ideas of a work tautology needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding syllepsis the linking of one word with two other words in two strikingly different ways epiphany a moment of sudden revelation or insight ellipsis the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context chiasmus a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed understatement the deliberate representation of something as less in magnitude than it really is metaphor a direct comparison of two different things, which suggests they are somehow the same conceit a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor alliteration the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words