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A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance. Usually a universal symbol or personified abstraction

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Allegory

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The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants new, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables

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Alliteration

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A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference

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Allusion

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The regular repitition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of clauses or phrases. Repeats first word

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Anaphora

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The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas. But/however

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Antithesis

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A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief

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Aphorism

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An address or invocation to something inanimate

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Apostrophe

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Rhetorical argument in which speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play on the emotions or appeal to the use of reason

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Appeals to…..authority, emotion, or logic

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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

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Assonance

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A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series , usually producing rapid pose

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Asyndeton

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The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the authors feelings toward his or her subject or character or events or theme

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Attitude

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Argument I’ve ploy where argued sidesteps the question or conflict, evades or ignores the real question

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Begging the question

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That which has been accepted as authentic

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Cannon

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A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second

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Chiasmus

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In argumentation, an assertion of something as fact

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Claim

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Term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area, connection to area

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Colloquial

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Mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared contrasted or both

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Comparison and contracts

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The implied, suggested or underlying meaning of a word or phrase

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Connotation

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A comparison of two unlike things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, extended metaphor

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Conceit

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The depiction of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels

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Consonance

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An accepted manner, model, or tradition

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Convention

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An assessment or analysis of something such as a passage of writing for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are and how it conforms to the standard of the genere

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Critique

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The method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from general to specific, syllogistic reasoning

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Deductive reasoning

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The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region or group

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Dialect

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The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect

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Diction

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Good teaching, writing or speech is didactic when it has an instructive purpose or a lesson

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Didactic

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A poem or prose work that laments, or meditates upon the death of a person or persons, short eulogy

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Elegy

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In rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of a successive sentence

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Epistrophe

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Writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone

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Epitaph

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The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer or narrator

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Ethos

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An indirect kinder or less harsh or hurtful way of expressing unpleasant information, opposite of connotation

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Euphemism

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The interpretation or analysis of a text

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Exposition

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A speech or written passage in praise of a person ; an oration in honor of a deceased person

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Eulogy

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A series of comparisons within a piece of writing

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Extended metaphor

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Levels of meaning expressed through figures of speech such as personification, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, oxymoron, litote, etc

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Figurative language/ figure of speech

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An earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration

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Flashback

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A type of class of literature, such as epic, narrative, poetry, biography, history

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Genre

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A sermon but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life

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Homily

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Overstatement characterized by exaggerated language, usually to make a point or draw attention

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Hyperbole

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Sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly the use of figurative feelings to call to mind an idea or to describe an object, involved all five senses

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Imagery

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The method of reasoning or argument in which general statements and conclusions are drawn from specific principals :movement from specific to the general

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Inductive reasoning

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A conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts, observations, or some other specific data

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Inference

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The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, meaning is opposite of what is stated

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Irony

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What the author/narrator says is actually the opposite of what is meant

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Verbal irony

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When events end up the opposite of what is expected

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Situational irony

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In drama and fiction, facts or situations are known to the reader or audience but not to th characters

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Dramatic irony

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Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length

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Isocolon

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Specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group

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Jargon

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The location of one thing adjacent to or juxtaposed with another to create an effect reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose , for affect

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Juxtaposition

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A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement

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Litote

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A long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases

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Loose sentence

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One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeliness or analogy

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something

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Metonymy

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The way in which information is presented in written or spoken form, classification, process, personal narrative, example essay

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Mode of discourse

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A feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrators attitude and point of view

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Mood

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A mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework

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Narrative

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A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes

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Onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech that combines Teo apparently contradictory elements such as wise fool baggy tights or deafening silence

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Oxymoron

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A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true

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Paradox

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The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases or thoughts

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Parallel structure

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That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow

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Pathos

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A long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end

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Periodic sentence

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Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities

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Personification

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The relation in which a narrator/ author stands to a subject of discourse

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Point of view

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The ordinary form of written language without metrical structure in contrast to verse and poetry, writing-> essays, stories

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Prose

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Attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail

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Realism

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An argument technique wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and countered

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Rebuttal/ refutation

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The art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking

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Rhetoric

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A question that is asked simply for the sake of stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered

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Rhetorical question

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A form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually critical

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Sarcasm

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A literary work that holds up on human failings to ridicule and censure

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Satire

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A direct explicit comparison of one thing or another using like or as

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Simile

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The manner in which a writer combines and arranges words, shapes, ideas and utilizes syntax and structure

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Style

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Use of a person, place, thing, event or pattern that figuratively represents something else

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Symbolism

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A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole

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Synecdoche

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The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences, word order

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Syntax

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The central or dominant idea or focus of a work. The statement a passage makes about its subject

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Theme

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The attitude the narrator/writer takes toward a subject and them; the tenor and piece of writing based on particular stylistic devices employed by the writer

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Tone

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The acknowledged or unacknowledged source of the words of the story; the speakers or narrators particular stylistic devices employed by the writer

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Voice

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The grammatically correct construction in which a word usually a verb or adjective is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated one verb carries two things

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Zeugma

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