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| 161573605 | Ad Hominem | Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand (Mr. Snoza's an idiot so we won't listen to him) | |
| 161573606 | Allegory | Fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts (Animal farm: Pigs = Communists) | |
| 161573607 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words (She sells seashells by the sea shore) | |
| 161573608 | Allusion | A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or person (Yo mama be so ol' dat she got a Bible autographed by Jesus) | |
| 161573609 | Ambiguity | Uncertain or indefinite; subject to more than one interpretation (Linton says to his wife Cathy: These shoes are fierce.) | |
| 161573610 | Analogy | The correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially different (Richard Simmons is to effeminate as Arnold Schwarzenegger is to masculine) | |
| 161573611 | Anecdote | A short story used to illustrate a point the author is making (Mustard seed parable) | |
| 161573612 | Antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses (That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind) | |
| 161573613 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker (Reagan says: Tear down this wall!) | |
| 161573614 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of two or more successive clauses, verses, or sentences (I believe I can fly I believe I...) | |
| 161573615 | Chiasmus | Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases (Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.) | |
| 161573616 | Colloquialism | Slang or common language that is informal (What it do, ya'll) | |
| 161573617 | Didactic | Writing which has the purpose of teaching or instructing (The Bible; works of Satire like Animal Farm) | |
| 161573618 | Elegy | A work that expresses sorrow (Funeral speech; Anything by Emily Dickinson) | |
| 161573619 | Ellipses | Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted ( It is when thoughts or ideas trail off into ... ) | |
| 161573620 | Euphemism | A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea (Hey! I'm not short! I am lacking in stature. | |
| 161573621 | Epic | An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero (Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend; I AM BEOWULF) | |
| 161573622 | Imagery | A mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations | |
| 161573623 | Inversion | Reversal of the usual or natural order of words (Yoda:Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?) | |
| 161573624 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it (The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings.) | |
| 161573625 | Ode | A Kind of Poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing and us usually written in an elevated style often expressing deep feelings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRCrZP5BS4) | |
| 161573626 | Parallelism | A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures | |
| 161573627 | Personification | A figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities (And the sun smiled down on me) | |
| 161573628 | Post hoc ergo propter hoc | the form of an argument in which one event is asserted to be the cause of a later event simply by virtue of having happened earlier relation (College graduation is on the rise. Murder rates among 20-25 year range are also on the rise. Therefore college education is turning people into murderers | |
| 161573629 | Repetition | The reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis. (reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis) | |
| 161573630 | Rhetorical Question | A question that is asked for the sake of argument. | |
| 161573631 | Satire | To ridicule or mock ideas, persons, events, or doctrines (Animal farm) | |
| 161573632 | Simile | A commonly used figure of speech that compares one thing with another using the words "like" or "as" (Heathcliff is like a raging beast.) | |
| 161573633 | Syllepsis | the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions to modify two or more words of which at least one foes not agree in number, case, or gender. ("She exhausted both her audience and her repertoire." Exhausted means bother "to tire" and "to expend" at the same time because the direct objects in this case use a different meaning) | |
| 161573634 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole | |
| 161573635 | Tragedy | A dramatic composition, often in verse,dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict. | |
| 161577505 | Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration Teenagers are all horrible drivers. | |
| 161577506 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite (Ya know, Einstein isn't all that bad of a mathematician.) |
