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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| parable | /xx | Noun |
| fable | /x | Noun, Noun, Verb |
| allegorically | xx/xx | Adverb |
| metaphor | /xx | Noun |
| symbolism | /xxx | Noun |
| allusion | x/x | Noun |
| satire | /xx | Noun |
| narrative | /xx | Noun |
| mythology | x/xx | Noun |
| depiction | x/x | Noun |
| subtext | /x | Noun |
| mythological | xx/xx | Adjective |
| foreshadowing | x/xx | Noun |
| literalism | /xxxx | Noun |
| symbolist | /xx | Noun |
| tale | / | Noun |
| poetic | x/x | Adjective |
| symbolization | /xx/x | Noun |
| dramatization | xxx/x | Noun |
| moralizing | /xxx | Noun |
| symbology | x/xx | Noun |
| analogy | x/xx | Noun |
| melodrama | /xxx | Noun |
| biblical | /xx | Noun |
| simile | /xx | Noun |
| surrealism | x/xx | Noun |
| retelling | x/x | Noun |
| symbolical | x/xx | Adjective |
| imagery | /xx | Noun |
| metaphysical | xx/xx | Adjective |
| neoplatonic | xxx/x | Name, Adjective |
| mysticism | /xxx | Noun |
| iconography | xx/xx | Noun |
| exegesis | x/xx | Noun |
| mythic | /x | Adjective |
| personification | xxxx/x | Noun |
| exposition | xx/x | Noun |
| symbolic | x/x | Adjective |
| parody | /xx | Noun |
| bildungsroman | /xxx | Noun |
| conceit | x/ | Noun |
| portrayal | x/x | Noun |
| mimesis | /xx | Noun |
| duality | x/xx | Noun |
| realism | /xx | Noun |
| artifice | /xx | Noun |
| dialectic | xx/x | Noun |
| myth | / | Noun |
| escapism | x/xx | Noun |
| evocation | xx/x | Noun |
| edenic | x/x | Name |
| explication | xx/x | Noun |
| expressionism | x/xxx | Noun |
| postmodern | x/x | Noun |
| mythos | /x | Noun |
| poetical | x/xx | Name |
| metaphysic | xx/x | Noun |
| parabola | x/xx | Noun |
| exemplum | x/x | Noun |
| narration | x/x | Noun |
| trope | x | Noun |
| metonymy | x/xx | Noun |
| rhetoric | /xx | Noun |
| synecdoche | /x/ | Noun |
| logos | /x | Noun |
| irony | /xx | Noun |
| communication | xxx/x | Noun |
| figure of speech | /x// | Phrase, Noun |
| comparison | x/xx | Noun |
| oxymoron | x//x | Noun |
| figure | /x | Noun |
| antithesis | x/xx | Noun |
| appeal | x/ | Noun |
| ethos | /x | Noun |
| encomium | x/xx | Noun |
| synthesis | /xx | Noun |
| argument | /xx | Noun |
| distribution | xx/x | Noun |
| deliberative | x/xxx | Adjective |
| speaking | /x | Verb |
| parenthesis | x/xx | Noun |
| dramatized | /xx | Adjective |
| manichean | /x/x | Adjective |
| commedia | x/xx | Noun |
| cave | / | Noun |
| plowman | /x | Noun |
| hagar | /x | Name |
| reemergence | xx/x | Noun |
| satiric | x/x | Adjective |
| typology | x/xx | Noun |
| hanson | /x | Name |
| alchemical | x/xx | Adjective |
| veiled | / | Verb, Adjective |
| homiletic | xx/x | Adjective |
| midrash | /x | Noun |
| archetype | /xx | Noun |
| bunyan | /x | Name |
| append | x/ | Verb |
| vine | / | Noun |
| satirical | x/xx | Adjective |
| baroque | x/ | Adjective |
| abbreviated | x/xxx | Adjective |
| africanist | /xxx | Name |
| conventionalized | x/xxx | Adjective |
| drama | /x | Noun |
| elegy | /xx | Noun |
| epic | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| evocative | x/xx | Adjective |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| goddess | /x | Noun |
| hieratic | /xx | Adjective, Noun |
| kabbalistic | xx/x | Adjective |
| legend | /x | Noun, Verb |
| ludic | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| lyric | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| mystic | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| pastoral | /xx | Adjective, Noun |
| phallic | /x | Adjective |
| phonetic | x/x | Adjective, Noun |
| presentational | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| reminiscent | xx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| riddle | /x | Noun, Verb |
| romance | x/ | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
| sign | / | Noun, Verb |
| vernacular | x/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| collocation | xx/x | Noun |
| standard | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| chunk | / | Noun, Verb |
| cluster | /x | Noun, Verb |
| dialect | /xx | Noun |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| tell | / | Verb, Noun |
| headlines | /x | Noun |
| sorta | /x | Adverb |
| no | / | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| cloth | / | Noun |
