Section 5 Flashcards
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Rhetorical
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A question asked for effort, no answer expected
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Caricature
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Pictured by exaggerated features
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Cliché
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Something overly familiar
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Oxymoron
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A combination of contradictory words
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Malapropism
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The humorous misapplication of a word with a word that might sound like it.
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Didactic
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Intended to teach
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Empathy
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Imaginative projection of a subject of state into an object so the object appears to be infused with it.
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Pathos
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Invoking pity or passion
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Chiasmis
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Inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases
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Satire
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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule/expose people’s stupidity
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Pastoral
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A work/literature portraying an idealized version of country life.
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Style
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The way in which a piece of literature is written
