English Technique Flashcards
1
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Exaggeration for the sake of emphasis
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Hyperbole
2
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Polite,indirect expressions used to describe unpleasant things.
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Euphemism
3
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A rhetorical question
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Erotema
4
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A representation of a person where certain features are exaggerated or dissorted
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Caricatures
5
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Where the writer raises a question then immediently answers it
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Hypophora
6
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A tool of persuasion the evokes emotions of pity, sympathy or sorrow
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Pathos
7
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A literary device used to convince a responder by using reason or logic
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Logos
8
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The credibility or ethical appeal of a speaker
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Ethos
9
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A figure of speech in which toe words of opposite affect are joined to create an effect
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Oxymoron
10
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A figure of so each in which the speaker expresses doubt and asks the audience how to proceed
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Aporia
