Test #3 Flashcards

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Invective

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An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attach using strong abusive language

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Inference/infer

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To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented

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Juxtaposition

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When two words, phrase, images, Ideas are placed close together or side-by-side for comparison or contrast

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Loose sentence

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A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses

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Metonymy

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The term from the Greek meaning “changed label” or “substitute name”, is a figure speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it

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Narrative

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The telling of the story or an account of an event or series of events

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Oxymoron

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From the Greek word for pointedly foolish, a figure speech where is the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox

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Parallelism

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From Greek roots meaning beside one another, refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity

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