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| 7354338637 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. Ex: "Death lies on her like an untimely forest. Upon the sweetest flower in the field." | 0 | |
| 7354354043 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. Ex: "You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family" vs "They're certainly entitled to think that." | 1 | |
| 7354369591 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. Ex: "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this little tumor on the brain." | 2 | |
| 7354384380 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. Ex: "passed away" or "departed" instead of "died" | 3 | |
| 7354398258 | Hyperbaton | an inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis Ex: "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall" | 4 | |
| 7354407430 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" | 5 | |
| 7354414868 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary Ex: "I am not unaware..." "You won't be sorry..." | 6 | |
| 7354425157 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable Ex: "It is the east, and Juliet, the sun" | 7 | |
| 7354438799 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant Ex: "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears" | 8 | |
| 7354448611 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction Ex: "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!" | 9 | |
| 7354458774 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc Ex: "Good we must love, and must hate ill, for ill is ill, and good good still" | 10 | |
| 7354470879 | Pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness. Ex: "He had meant the best in the world, and had been treated like a dog- a very dog. She would be sorry someday- maybe when it was too late" | 11 | |
| 7354481287 | Logos | Can be defined as a statement or argument used to convince or persuade the audience by employing reason or logic Ex: "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal" | 12 | |
| 7354497059 | Idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words Ex: "raining cats and dogs" "love is blind" "actions speak louder than words" | 13 | |
| 7354508383 | Antimetabole/ chiasmus | rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order. Ex: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" | 14 | |
| 7354514902 | Schemes | figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than the meaning of words, which involves tropes. Ex: rhyme scheme (haiku) | 15 | |
| 7354531190 | Tropes | a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression. Consists in the use of a word or phrase in a sense other than that which is proper to Ex: Hyperbole, irony, litotes, metaphor | 16 | |
| 7354541964 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses Ex: "They covered themselves in dust and glory." | 17 | |
| 7354551989 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. Ex: "I came, I saw, I conquered." - leaving out "and" | 18 | |
| 7354558490 | Ethos | convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader Ex: "Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment" | 19 | |
| 7354572289 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Ex: "If they failed to point the conversation to me, every now and then, and stick the point into me" | 20 | |
| 7354584918 | Anadiplosis | repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. Ex: "for Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime" | 21 | |
| 7354593259 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Ex: "The 2 knitting women increase his anxiety by gazing at him and all the other sailors with knowing concern" | 22 | |
| 7354604262 | Anaphora | The repetition of the same word or phrase in several successive clauses "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England" | 23 | |
| 7354616796 | Antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other Ex: "It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times" | 24 | |
| 7354635934 | Polysyndeton | stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect Ex: "I said "who killed him?" and he said "I don't know" and it was dark and..." | 25 | |
| 7354648261 | Rhetorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. Ex: "Will no one tell me what she sings?" | 26 | |
| 7354653868 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid Ex: "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" "Thou art more lovely and more temperate" | 27 | |
| 7354675639 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, Ex: "It is an ever-fixed mark (lighthouse) that looks on tempests and is never shaken" | 28 | |
| 7354690004 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. Ex: "What light from yonder window breaks" instead of "What light breaks from yonder window" | 29 | |
| 7354706899 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Ex: "when well-appareled April on the heel, of limping winter treads" | 30 | |
| 7354714475 | Aristotelian triangle | Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. | 31 | |
| 7354722543 | Conduplicatio | Figure of repetition in which the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses. Note: Compare with anadiplosis. Ex: "Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being." | 32 |
