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Absolute

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Term applied to totally independent of influences, limitations, etc.. Ex: all, always, never

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Allegory

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Story, represents moral qualities

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Alliteration

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Repetition of identical Sounds

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Allusion

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Makes a brief reference to something else

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Ambiguity

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A situation with more than one possible interpretation

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Analogy

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Comparison between 2 things

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Anaphora

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Repetition using words or phrases

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Anecdote

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Short entertaining story

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Anticlimax

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Sudden drop

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Aphorism

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A short statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle

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Argumentation

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Investigates all sides, persuasion through reason

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Attitude

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Similar to tone

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Balanced sentences

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Parallel clauses

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Cause and effect

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Examines cause and effect

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Chiasmus

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A pattern in which the second is balanced with the first but the first is reversed. Ex: sin is a pleasure, and sometimes pleasure is a sin

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Chronological order

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In order in which they occur

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Classification as a means of ordering

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Arrangement according to class

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Colloquial expression

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Words used in writing but not in everyday language

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Cumulative sentence

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Sentence begins with subject and predicate, adds modifiers

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Damning with faint praise

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Intentional use of a positive statement to have a negative impact

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Deduction

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Form of reason that begins with a generalization

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Denouement

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Untying of complications of plot, play, story

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Detail

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Describing or relating an object or scene with complete particulars

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Devices

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Figures of speech

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Dialect

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Form of language spoken by the people in that region

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Diction

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Writers word choice

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Digression

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A temporary departure from subject

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Ellipsis

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Omission of words necessary for complete construction but left understood in context.

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Epiphany

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A sudden insight of the true nature of something

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Epistrophe

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Anaphora, but repetition is at the end

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Euphemism

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A phrase that’s less direct.”he passed away” for “he is dead”

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Fallacy

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An error in reasoning

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Fallacy: Begging the question

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Assumes truth without support

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Fallacy: Circular Reasoning

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Evidence is a restatement of the claim

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Fallacy: Either/or

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Claims there are only two alternatives when actually there are more

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Fallacy: False Analogy

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Assumes that two subjects are similar in some respect just because they are similar in some other respect.

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Fallacy: Overgeneralization

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Statement that is too broad or inclusive

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Fallacy: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

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The assumption that an event is caused by another even simply because of the order of the events in time

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False dilemma

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Fallacy, when too few of available arguments are considered, some are not

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Figurative language/ Figures of Speech

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Intentional departure from the normal order or meaning of words

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Genre

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A division or type of literature

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration of fact

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Imagery

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Authors use of words to creat a picture. 5 senses

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Induction

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Form of reasoning. Works from a Body of fact to formation of a generalization

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Inference/infer

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To draw a conclusion

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Inverted Syntax

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Reversing the normal word order of a sentence. Yoda!!

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Irony

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Style that indicates an intention opposite of what is actually said. Humorous or sarcastic

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Irony: Verbal

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What is said, is opposite of what is meant

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Irony: Situation

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Situation where there is a incongruity between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate

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Irony: Dramatic

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A discrepancy between what a character says and what the reader knows to be true

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Juxtaposition

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Where Ideas, words, colors, shapes, etc. are places next to each other creating an effect if surprise and wit

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Language

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Manner of expression used to communicate feeling, tone, attitude

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Loose Sentences (cumulative)

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Subject, predicate, modifiers, adds modifiers

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Metonymy

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Replaces one thing with another similar to it

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Mood

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Atmosphere or emotional aura of a work

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Motif

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Serves as a basis for expanded narrative, or an interest

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Metaphor

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Thing Compared to another thing as though it were a thing.

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Narrative Techniques

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The manner in which the author tells the story

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Nonfiction

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Prose writing that explains ideas or tells about real things, events

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Non Sequitur

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Similar to fallacy, a statement that does not follow logically to anything previously said

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Order of importance

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A Method of organizing according to significance of the subtopics

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Chronological

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Order in which events take place

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Spatial

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The physical description of persons and places

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In medias res

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Author stats in the middle and uses techniques of flashback and foreshadow

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory terms or ideas are combined

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Parallel syntactic structures

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Using the same part of speech of syntactic structure. Ex: over the hill and through the woods to grandmothers house we go

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Parallelism

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The repetition of a grammatical structure

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Paradox

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A statement that seems contradictory but actually may be true

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Pathos

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The quality in a work that evokes sorry or pity

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Pedantry

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A display of narrow minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms

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Periodic Sentence Structure

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Long sentence where the completion of the syntax and sense is delayed until the end

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human attributes

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Persuasive Devices

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Words in the passage that have strong connotations, words that intensify the emotional effect

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Persona

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The voice an author uses to tell a story

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Persuasion

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Taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position

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Phrasing

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Single part of speech, may help present rhythm, may help shoe parallelism

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Point of View

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The angle of vision from which a story is told

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Omniscient

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The author tells story using 3rd person

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First person

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Told by one of the story’s characters

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Third person

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Shows an unrestricted knowledge of the story’s events from outside or above them

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Limited omniscient

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Tells story in third person but tells only what the one character thinks, feels, sees, etc

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Multiple point of view

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Shown the positions from two or more characters

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Prose

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Genre, refers to fiction and nonfiction, closely resembles every day speech

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Purpose

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Goal or aim of the literary work

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Resources of language (75)

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Refers to all the devices of composition available. The cumulative effect

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Rhetoric

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Art of using words effectively to persuade

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Rhetorical question

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Asked for rhetorical effect to emphasize a point, no answer being expected

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Rhetorical structure

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How the passage is constructed, to serve its purpose

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Satire

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A writing the ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, or any work of literature

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Sentence structure (80)

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The way the sentence is put together

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AP Exam

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Analyze sentence structure, types of sentences used, effects

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Stream or Consciousness

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Narrative that presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author

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Structure

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The planned framework of the novel

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Style

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The habitual manner of expression of an author

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Stylistic devices (85)

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Note and analyze all of the elements in language that contribute to style

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Syllepsis

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A grammatical correct construction in which one word is placed in the same grammatical relationship to two words but in quite different senses

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Syllogism

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Form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made a logical conclusion is drawn from them, deductive reasoning

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Symbol

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Something that stands for another thing, used to represent an abstraction

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Synesthesia

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A blending or confusion of different kinds of sense-impression, In which one type of sensation is referred to in terms more appropriate to another

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Syncope (90)

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Cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ex) ev’ry for every

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Synecdoche

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Figure of speech in which part is substituted for the whole

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Syntax

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The arrangement of words or elements in a sentence to show their relationship

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Tone

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Authors attitude toward his subject and audience expressed through characters’ action and speech

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Understatement

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Deliberately representing something as much less than it really is

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