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| 170415011 | poesy | the art and techniques of poetry | |
| 170415012 | phraseology | the way something is expressed in words | |
| 170415013 | heteroclite | unusual | |
| 170415014 | trope | a figure of speech | |
| 170415015 | manifesto | public declaration of principles or views | |
| 170415016 | polemic | a controversial argument | |
| 170415017 | facetious | playfully humorous | |
| 170415018 | parochial | narrow, limited, restricted | |
| 170415019 | discursive | informative rambling | |
| 170415020 | paradox | two contradictory statements or concepts | |
| 170415021 | contrived | forced, artificial, not genuine | |
| 170415022 | parallel structure | the repetition of phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure | |
| 170415023 | juxtaposition | placement of things side by side | |
| 170415024 | disparate | fundamentally different | |
| 170415025 | compound-complex sentence structure | conjunction w/ intro phrase (dependent) | |
| 170415026 | asyndeton | series of words/phrases w/o conjunctions | |
| 170415027 | parenthetical appositive | part of a sentence that adds info... parentheses, dashes, afterthought, etc | |
| 170415028 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | |
| 170415029 | polysyndeton | series of words/phrases w/ conjunctions, even extra ones | |
| 170415030 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way, but often making literal sense w/ only one "he took his hat and his leave" | |
| 170415031 | idiosyncrasy | characteristic peculiar to an individual or group | |
| 170415032 | hyperbole | Exaggeration | |
| 170415033 | anachronism | Anything out of its proper historical time | |
| 170415034 | altruistic | unselfish | |
| 170415035 | quixotic | idealistic, but impractical | |
| 170415036 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | |
| 170415037 | apposition | the placing next to a noun another noun or phrase that explains it | |
| 170415038 | relative clause | A clause introduced by a relative pronoun, such as WHO, WHICH, THAT, or by a relative adverb, such as WHERE, WHEN, WHY. | |
| 170415039 | parallelism | listing, repetition of items in a sentence or paragraph | |
| 170415040 | pedantic | excessively displaying one's learning or scholarship | |
| 170415041 | terse | brief, concise | |
| 170415042 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer) | |
| 170415043 | inductive reasoning | reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | |
| 170415044 | deductive reasoning | reasoning from the general to the particular | |
| 170415045 | allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to represent something other than literal meaning | |
| 170415046 | antecedent | word/phrase/clause referred to by a noun | |
| 170415047 | apostrophe | figure of speech, directly addresses absent/imaginary person or abstraction (Urn, Freud, Liberty) | |
| 170415048 | conceit | extended metaphor/surprising analogy b/w two things | |
| 170415049 | didactic | intended to teach/instruct | |
| 170415050 | homily | sermon, serious talk, speech with advice | |
| 170415051 | invective | emotionally violent, verbal attack | |
| 170415052 | loose sentence | sentence, main idea comes first followed by dependent phrases/clauses | |
| 170415053 | metonomy | figure of speech, one name/object substituted for another closely related (white house and president, crown and royal family) | |
| 170415054 | periodic sentence | sentence, starts w/ dependent clauses and ends w/ main idea | |
| 170415055 | predicate adjective | adj that modifies subject as a subject compliment | |
| 170415056 | predicate nominative | adj that renames subject as subject compliment | |
| 170415057 | semantics | branch of linguistics, studies meanings of words | |
| 170415058 | subject compliment | word/phrase, follows linking verb & affects subject in some way (rename, describe) | |
| 170415059 | subordinate clause | aka dependent clause | |
| 170415060 | syllogism | system of logic, based on a major premise and a minor premise ("All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.") | |
| 170415061 | syntax | way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, sentences | |
| 170415062 | indirect discourse | a report of a discourse modifying the original speaker's first person words (e.g., "he said 'I am a fool' would be modified to 'he said he is a fool'") | |
| 170415063 | ad hominem | in an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than ideas (personal details rather than facts) | |
| 170415064 | diatribe | bitter verbal attack | |
| 170415065 | prepositional phrase | a group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun or pronoun | |
| 170415066 | tangent | an abrupt digression or change of course | |
| 170415067 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea in a work | |
| 170415068 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event |
