96,98-120 Flashcards

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conceit

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develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely, but is noting less, intellectually imaginative. a comparison turns into a conceit when the writer tries to make us admit a similarity between two things that are ‘‘dissimilarities’’

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catharsis

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an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. reek word that mean cleansing. literature it is used for cleansing of emotions of the character.

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clinche

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refers to an expression that has overused to the extent that it can lose its original meaning of novelty. A cinche may also refer to actions and events which are predicted because of some previous event.

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concession

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used in a argumentative writing where one acknowledges a point made y one’s opponent. nit a counter argument, but and extension of a counter argument.

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concession pat 2

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concussions writing style also how that the writer is a logical and fair minded person, able to realize that every argument has several sides to consider before it is presented.

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portmanteau

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2 or more words are joined together to coin a now word. portmanteau word is formed by bending part of two or more words, but it always refers to a single concept.

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he coinage or portmanteu

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involves the linking and bending of two r more words and the new formed in the process shared the same meaning as the original meaning.

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litotes

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understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all”

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chiasmus

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rhetorical reversal of the order of words in the second of two second of two- phrases .

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anadiprosis

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repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next.

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Invective

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a verbally abusive attack

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circumilocution

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unnecessary large numbers of words or an indirect means of expression to express an idea so as to effect an evasion in speech.

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begging the question

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supporting a claim with reason that is really a restatement of the claim i different words.

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adage

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saying or proverb embodying a piece of common wisdom based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language.

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malapropism

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a confused, comically inaccurate use of a long word or words.

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cadence

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the rising and falling rhythm of speech especially in free verse or prose.

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false analogy

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error in assuming that because two things are alike in all ways.

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hasty generalization

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unsound inductive inference based on in sufficient, inadequate , unspecified evidence.

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non-sequitur

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a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.

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post hoc

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because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other.

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ad hominem

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instead of attack an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion.

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polyphasic

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excessive talking

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diatribe

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a bitter, sharply a bu sine denunciation, attack, or criticism, bitter and abusive speech or writing.