Rhetorical Device

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Language that is overly rhetorical, especially when considered in context

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Bombast

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Asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought provoking tool before preceding

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Erotema

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A regional speech pattern; the way people talk in different parts of the world

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Dialect

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To use a safer or nicer word for something others find inappropriate or unappealing

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Euphemism

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A contrast between what happened and what was expected to happen

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Situational irony

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A reference that recalls another work, another time in history, another famous person, and so forth

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Allusion

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The association or moods that accompany a word

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Connotation

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A play on words

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Pun

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To unite or synthesize a variety of sources to achieve a common end

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Synthesis

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The use of hints and suggestions to offer clues to future developments in a work

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Foreshadowing

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A word that represents something other than itself

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Symbol

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The mood or the sentiments revealed by the style

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Tone

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Any time one of the five senses is evoked by what you have read

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Imagery

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A contrast between what is said and what is meant (sarcasm)

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Verbal irony

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Devices used in the art of persuasion

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Rhetorical device

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A pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people

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Jargon

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It is the basic message or meaning conveying through elements of character and conflict

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Theme

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A term that signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas

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Analogy

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Making one idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite

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Juxtaposition

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The expression of an author’s personality through his or her writing

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Voice

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Something is portrayed in a way that is deliberately distorted to achieve comic effect

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Satire

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A form of word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar

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Malapropism

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Is a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms

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Allegory

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The use of words to express something other than and often the opposite of the literal meaning

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Irony

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A question whose answer is assumed

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Rhetorical question

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The atmosphere or feeling created in a literary work

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Mood

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The particular words an author uses in an essay

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Diction

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Giving human attributes to non human things

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Personification

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A method used to prevent past events during current events in order to provide background information

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Flashback

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The perspective from which the writer chooses to present his or her story of essay

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Point of view

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This occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his diction, syntax, or both

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Rhetorical shift

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This is the opposite of a connotation and is quite literally the dictionary meaning of a word

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Denotation

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A short story that is designed to teach a truth or lesson

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Parable

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A statement or expression that is mean spirited and intended to hurt or upset the person to whom it is directed or about whom it said

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sarcasm

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The manner of expression

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Style

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A contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what the reader knows to be true

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Dramatic irony

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The writer’s statement of purpose

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Thesis