10649777447 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 0 | |
10649868229 | Appositive | A word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity. | 1 | |
10649777448 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 2 | |
10649777449 | Asyndeton | the absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 3 | |
10649777450 | Atmosphere | The emotional feeling -or mood- of a place, scene, or event | 4 | |
10649777451 | attitude | Describes the feeling of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea | 5 | |
10649777452 | Bathos | A false or forced emotion that is often humorous. Whereas pathos draws upon deep emotion, bathos takes this emotion to such an extreme that the reader finds it humorous rather than touching. | 6 | |
10649777453 | contrast | compare: to actively point out similarities contrast: refers to indicating differences | 7 | |
10649777454 | Diction | refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness | 8 | |
10649777455 | Elegy/Elegiac | A work that expresses sorrow. It mourns the loss of something | 9 | |
10649777456 | Ethos | the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations. | 10 | |
10649868230 | contrast | Helps writers to expand on their ideas by allowing them to show what a thing is and what it's not | 11 | |
10656094534 | Appositive | My best friend, Sammy, lives in Cleveland. | 12 |
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