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Ambiguous

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Open to multiple interpretations

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Ambivalent

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Torn, mixed feelings

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Anachronism

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Something belonging to a different time period

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Analogy

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A similarity/comparison between 2 different things or their relationship. Blank to blank as blankety to blankety

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Anastrophe

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Change of normal word order

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Antimetabole

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When a phrase is repeated but in reverse

Fair is foul, foul is fair

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Antonomasia

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Substitution of epithet for proper name. Type of metonymy

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Apocope

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Omission of one or more sounds from the end of a word

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Aposiopesis

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Suddenly breaking off in speech

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Apostrophe

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Addressing someone or something who cannot answer, like a dead loved one or Love

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Apotropaic

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Having power to avert bad luck/evil

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Assonance

Consonnance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

Repetition of similar consonant sounds

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Auxesis

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3 terms in a row, that are growing/diminishing

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Bathos

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Large thing ending with small/insignificant thing. Tone shift
Serious-funny

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Cacemphaton

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Bad words

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Canon

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Law or principle

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Catachresis

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Use of wrong words

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Chronotope

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How literature represents space and time

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Deictic

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Indicates a term that relies on context

Next week

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Deus ex machina

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God from the machine

Devine character, exists to solve problem

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Dialectic

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Art of discussing the truth of opinions

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Diatribe

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A forceful verbal attack

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Dysphemism

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Replace something with worse word

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Eclipsis

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Omission of word

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Elision

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Omissision of a sound when speaking

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Enallage

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Use of form/tense for a grammatically incorrect counterpart

Got milk?

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Enthymeme

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An argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated

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Epiphany

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Moment where character receives realization

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Epithet

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A (usually negative) replacement/accompaniment for a word

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Exergasia

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Parallelism where the idea is repeated but the wording only is changed

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Gemination

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A doubling of something to add evidence

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Hamartia

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Fatal flaw

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Heteronym

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2 words that are spelled the same but sound different

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Invective

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Insulting/critical language

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Jargon

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Language used by a particular group (only)

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Leitmotif

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Short reoccurring theme

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Malapropism

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Use of similar sounding but wrong word

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Metastasis

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Skipping over awkward matter

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Motif

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A recurring theme

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Neologism

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A new word

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Portmanteau

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Word formed of other words

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Mon sequitur

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A statement that doesn’t logically follow

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Palilogy

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Repitition of word/phrase

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Paralepsis

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Emphasizing a point by passing over or denying it

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Parison

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Parallelism with corresponding clause structure

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Parody

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Imitation of something/someone

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Pathetic fallacy

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Attribute of human traits to nonhuman things

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Periergy

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Excessive, bombastic/labored style

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Philippic

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Bitter verbal attack

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Platitude

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A remark said too much

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Premise

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A Proposition upon which an argument is based

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52
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Pretext

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A reason that isn’t the real reason

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Satire

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Use of humor, exaggeration, ridicule to expose:criticize

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Solecism

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Grammatical mistake

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Sophism

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Using a fallible argument deliberately

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Spoonerism

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Error where sounds are switched but it still makes a sentence

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Squib

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Short satire

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Syllepsis

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Word applied to two different sorts of words

Caught the train and a cold

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Syllogism

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Form of reasoning that combines two premises to arrive at a conclusion

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Synaesthesia

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One sense gets crossed up with another one

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Synchisis

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Disarrangement of words

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Tapinosis

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Name calling

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Tapinosis

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Name calling

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of being true or real

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Banal

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Lacking in originality

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Bombastic

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Big words but little content

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Cogent

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Forcefully convincing

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Colloquial

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Regional speech, slang

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Didactic

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In a Teaching manner

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Esoteric

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Intended for a specific group

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Hackneyed

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Incendiary

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Designed to cause fires/reaction

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Lucid

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Deduce

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To arrive at a conclusion

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Denotation

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Literal definition of something

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Nebulous

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Vague, cloudy

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Objective

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Not influenced by feelings just facts

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Ostensible

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Stated/appearing to be true, but it may not be

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Pedantic

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Patronizing, detailed, overdone

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Sesquipedalian

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Subjective

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Based on feelings

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Obfuscate

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To make cloudy or unintelligible

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Metonymy

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Substitution of an attribute for something

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Allegory

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A symbol- often multidimensional or big

Like animal farm

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Aphorism

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Brief Statement with meaning. (Like a cliche)

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Archaism

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Really old word/phrase

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Archetype

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Something that represents something, often a global symbol

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Bildungsroman

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Coming of age story

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Candor

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Truthfulness

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Caricature

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Exageration

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Conceit

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Using 2 non-related things compared for a metaphor

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Connotation

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Implied meaning

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Diction

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Word choice

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Ethos

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Persuasion because of speaker’s position or authority

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Euphemism

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Substitution of milder phrase

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Irony

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Something unexpected happens

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Juxtaposition

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2 things side by side to compare/show contrast

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Litotes

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Double negative statement

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Logos

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Persuasion using appeal to reason/facts

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Meiosis

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Understatement to highlight

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Oxymoron

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2 contradictory words

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Paradox

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A seemingly contradictory statement that seems to also make sense

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Parallelism

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2 or more phrases with the same structure

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Pathos

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Persuasion through emotion

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Rhetoric

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Art of using speech

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Semantics

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Branch of language dealing with meaning of words

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Synecdoche

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Using a part to describe

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Syntax

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Arrangement of words within something. Word order

111
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Verbiage

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Excessive words too much words far too many words

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Vernacular

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Language spoken in a particular area

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Allitération

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Repetition of sounds

114
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Allusion

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Direct/indirect reference to something that is presumably known

115
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Anaphora

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Repetition of beginning of phrase

It was the best…it was the worst…

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Anecdote

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Short narrative

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Antecedent

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The word referred to by a pronoun

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Antithesis

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Two contrasting ideas ideas intentionally juxtaposed often through parallel structure

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Asyndeton

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Omitting conjunctions usually and

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Atmosphere

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Emotional mood created by an entire literary work

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Chiasmus

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Figure of speech where two phrases in parallel are switched in wording
Land was ours before we were the land’s

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Clause

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Contains subject and verb

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Coherence

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A principle that demands clarity of meaning

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Diacope

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Repetition of phrase at end of sentence

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Enumeratio

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Figure of amplification that divides something into its parts and lists them

126
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Expletive

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Figure of emphasis, short phrase that interrupts

«In fact»

127
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Exposition

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One of the chief types of composition, meaning purpose to explain

128
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Extended metaphor

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Metaphor developed throughout the work

129
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Figurative language

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Writing or speech not intended to have literal meaning but to be imaginative instead

130
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Figure of speech

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Device used to produce figurative language

Personification, irony, etc

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Generic conventions

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Features that define pieces as certain genres

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Genre

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Major category of a work

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Homily

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Serious talk, speech, lecture, with moral/spiritual advice

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Hyperbole

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Hypophora

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Reasoning method with rhetorical questions and answers

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Imagery

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Sensory language, can represent senses but have higher meaning

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Inference/infer

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Draw conclusion for presented info

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Invective

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Verbal and abusive attack, emotionally violent

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Juxtaposition

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2 words/phrases are compared to compare/contrast

140
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Loose sentence

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Main idea then other phrases/clauses. Creates informal feel

141
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Metaphor

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A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things

142
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Mood

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Either:
Grammatical mood (indictive=fact, subjunctive=other than fact, imperative=commands)
Atmosphere of piece

143
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Narrative

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Telling of a story

144
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Onomatopoeia

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Sound imitation

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Periodic sentence

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Has the main idea at the end

146
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Polysyndeton

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More conjunctions

FANBOYS

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Point of view

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Perspective of story

148
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Predicate adjective

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Type of subjects compliment- group of adjectives

149
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Predicate nominative

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Type of subject compliment- group of nouns

150
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Prose

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Printer determines length of line

151
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Rhetorical modes

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Four modes

  1. Purpose of expository writing is to explain and analyze
  2. Argumentation is to prove
  3. Description is to visually present something
  4. Narration is to tell a story
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Rhetorical question

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Question with implied answer

153
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Sarcasm

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TO TEAR FLESH

154
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Style

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How the author chooses the devices, wording, etc they use

Style relating to time period also

155
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Subordinate clause

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Subject and verb but can’t stand alone

Although….

156
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Symbol

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Anything that represents itself and something else

157
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Theme

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Central message of a work

158
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Thesis

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Sentence that expresses point of paper

159
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Tone

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Author’s attitude and how they approach speaking about something

160
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Transition

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Phrase/word that links ideas

161
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Undertone

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Attitude that may lie under the presented tone

162
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Voice

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Overall remains the same, unlike tone which can change

163
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Zeugma

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Double use of verb

Opened window and mind

164
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Tautology

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Repetition of words that are nearly synonymous

165
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Tricolon

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Succession of 3 coordinate items

166
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Epistrophe

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Repetition of words at the end of sentences

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