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Allegory

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Extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of an initial consonant sound.

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Allusion

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A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event–real or fictional.

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Ambiguity

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The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage.

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Analogy

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Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases.

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Anaphora

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The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

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Antithesis

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The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.

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Aphorism

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(1) A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion.

(2) A brief statement of a principle.

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Apostrophe

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A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing.

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Assonance

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The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

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Asyndeton

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The omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses (opposite of polysyndeton).

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Chiasmus

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A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.

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Climax

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Mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of a series of events.

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Colloquial

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Characteristic of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary English.

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Connotation

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The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.

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Coordination

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The grammatical connection of two or more ideas to give them equal emphasis and importance.

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Denotation

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The direct or dictionary meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.

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Diction

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(1) The choice and use of words in speech or writing.

(2) A way of speaking, usually assessed in terms of prevailing standards of pronunciation and elocution.

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Encomium

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A tribute or eulogy in prose or verse glorifying people, objects, ideas, or events.

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Epistrophe

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The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses.

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Epitaph

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(1) A short inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone or monument.
(2) A statement or speech commemorating someone who has died: a funeral oration.

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Ethos

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A persuasive appeal based on the projected character of the speaker or narrator.

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Eulogy

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A formal expression of praise for someone who has recently died.

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Euphemism

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The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.

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Exposition
A statement or type of composition intended to give information about (or an explanation of) an issue, subject, method, or idea.
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Extended Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
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Figurative Language
Language in which figures of speech (such as metaphors, similes, and hyperbole) freely occur.
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Figures of Speech
The various uses of language that depart from customary construction, order, or significance.
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Flashback
A shift in a narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story.
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Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement.
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Imagery
Vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses.
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Induction
A method of reasoning by which a rhetor collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances.
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Invective
Denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something.
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Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is directly contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
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Isocolon
A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure.
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Jargon
The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.
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Litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
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Metaphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
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Metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").
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Mode of Discourse
The way in which information is presented in a text. The four traditional modes are narration, description, exposition, and argument.
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Mood
(1) The quality of a verb that conveys the writer's attitude toward a subject. (2) The emotion evoked by a text.
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Narrative
A rhetorical strategy that recounts a sequence of events, usually in chronological order.
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Onomatopoeia
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
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Paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
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Parallelism
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
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Parody
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
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Pathos
The means of persuasion that appeals to the audience's emotions.
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Periodic Sentence
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word--usually with an emphatic climax.
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Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
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Point of View
The perspective from which a speaker or writer tells a story or presents information.
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Prose
Ordinary writing (both fiction and nonfiction) as distinguished from verse.
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Repetition
An instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage--dwelling on a point.
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Rhetoric
The study and practice of effective communication.
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Rhetorical Question
A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.
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Sarcasm
A mocking, often ironic or satirical remark.
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Satire
A text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity.
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Simile
A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as."
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Style
Narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament speech or writing; broadly, as representing a manifestation of the person speaking or writing.
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Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
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Subordination
Words, phrases, and clauses that make one element of a sentence dependent on (or subordinate to) another. Contrast with coordination.
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Symbol
A person, place, action, or thing that (by association, resemblance, or convention) represents something other than itself.
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Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part.
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Syntax
(1) The study of the rules that govern the way words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. (2) The arrangement of words in a sentence.
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Thesis
The main idea of an essay or report, often written as a single declarative sentence.
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Tone
A writer's attitude toward the subject and audience. Tone is primarily conveyed through diction, point of view, syntax, and level of formality.
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Understatement
A figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
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Voice
(1) The quality of a verb that indicates whether its subject acts (active voice) or is acted upon (passive voice). (2) The distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or narrator.
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Zeugma
The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.

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