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| designating qualties or characteristics apart from specific objects or events | ||
| narrative that represents abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story | ||
| one of the devises of repeition in which the same xpression is reoeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | ||
| inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of parts of a sentence ex. "one-night cheap hotels" vs "cheap one-night hotels" | ||
| process of drawing a comparison between two things based on partial similarity of like features | ||
| word to which a pronoun refers | ||
| concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words | ||
| type of noun that follows the noun or pronoun it modifies and amplifies or restricts its meaning | ||
| technique to create and reveal fictional personalities in a work of literature, by describing the character's appearance, actions, thoughts, and feelings | ||
| flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike | ||
| method of sorting, grouping, collecting, and analyzing things by categories | ||
| word or phrase made, invented, or fabricated | ||
| words or phrases, characteristics or appropriate ordinary familar conversations rather than formal speech writing | ||
| alaborate and surprising figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things. | ||
| opposite of absract | ||
| language used to distort and manipulate rather than communicate | ||
| methods of drawing attention and diversion to the work's effectiveness | ||
| omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction, but understood un the context | ||
| belief in the inherent superiority of one's own group and culture | ||
| use of words outside their literal or uaul meanigns | ||
| use of words, a grammatical construction peculiar to a given language or an expression that cannot be translatted literally into a second lanuage | ||
| twittering or jibberish | ||
| placing two ideas side by side or close together. Sometimes the two ideas are completely different. | ||
| arguing her point, a writer or speaker should always lend her opponent some credit for the opponent's ideas. In this way the writer or speaker persuades her audience that she is fair and has done her homework, thereby strengthening her own argument | ||
| form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. | ||
| methods are pseudoreasing that may occur accidentally or may be intentionally contived to lend plausibility to an unsound argument | ||
| idea that there are principles governing correct or reliable inferences | ||
| sentence grammatically complete at some point (or points) before the end | ||
| term used for a dramatic poem in which the form of drama is used to express lyric themes | ||
| figure of speech characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | ||
| overall atmosphere of the work | ||
| in literature, recurrent images, words, objects, phrases, or actions that tend to unify the work | ||
| a phrase or statement that while seemly is contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true | ||
| a sentence that is not grammatically correct before its end | ||
| the repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect | ||
| a method of clarifying the nature of something by explaining how it works in separate, easy-to-understand steps | ||
| the author's characteristic manner of expression | ||
| a formula for presenting an argument logically |
