Terminology

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Plosive alliteration

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Repetition of ‘p’ and ‘b’ sounds

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Sibilance

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Repetition of ‘s’ or soft ‘c’ sounds

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Dental alliteration

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Repetition of ‘d’ and ‘t’ sounds

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Guttural alliteration

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Repetition of ‘g’ , ‘r’ and hard ‘c’ sounds

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Fricative alliteration

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Repetition of ‘f’ , ‘ph’ and ‘v’ sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Adjective placed before the name of someone/thing

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Epithet

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Neoligism

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Newly coined words or expressionisms

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Dysphemism

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Extremely blunt/ to the point

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Sycophants

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People who suck up to those in power for personal gain

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Syndetic listing

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Uses one conjunction

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Asyndetic listing

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Absence of conjunctions

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Polysyndetic listing

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Uses multiple conjunctions

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Voyeurism

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Watching someone without them knowing

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Mimesis

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Mimicry of language sound to word meaning (e.g. soft summer)

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Malapropism

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When an idiom is said incorrectly

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Olfactory imagery

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Smell

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Gustatory imagery

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Taste

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Tactile imagery

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Touch

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Portmanteau

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Putting together two pre-exisiting words to create a new one

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Facetious

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Trying to be funny or clever when it isn’t appropriate

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Pejoration

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A word’s meaning changing over time to be more derogatory

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Amelioration

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A word’s meaning changing over time to be better

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Machiavellian

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Someone cunning, manipulative and has a focus on personal gain

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Peripeteia

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A sudden change in fortune

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Anagnorisis

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The point in a story where a principle character discovers the true identity of another

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Litotes

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Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative

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Epizeuxis

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Rhetorical device that repeats a word or phrase in quick succession to create emphasis

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Apoplexy

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Bleeding into another organ

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Synecdoche

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Figure of speech in which a smaller part is used to represent the whole

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Optics

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The public’s option and understanding of a situation

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Analepsis

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A flashback

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Deus ex machina

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Plot device where a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly solved by an unlikely occurance

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Convergence

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Changing the way you speak in order to mimic the style of somebody else

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The malcontent

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A character who blames all suffering on other people

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Tyrannicide

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The killing of a tyrant for a common good

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End focus

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Word at end of line of poetry to draw emphasis

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Frontint

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Word at start of line of poetry to draw emphasis

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Antistrophe

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Repetition of words at the end of clauses

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Anadiplosis

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A word at the end of omens clause and also at the start of the next

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Rhetoric

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Persuasive language