3844927024 | Periodic sentences | A sentence that by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense | 0 | |
3844927025 | Metonymy | Figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concepts for that of another to which its related | 1 | |
3844927026 | Nomenclature | Terminology used in a particular science, art, activity | 2 | |
3844927027 | Objective | Not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice | 3 | |
3844927028 | Subjective | Placing excessive emphasis on ones own moods, attitudes, opinions etc | 4 | |
3844927029 | Overstatement | To state to strongly, exaggerate | 5 | |
3844927030 | Pedantic | Overly concerned with minute details | 6 | |
3844927031 | Periodic structure | The main idea of peace of writing especially an argument, is left until the very end for effect or emphasis | 7 | |
3844927032 | Syllogism | Conclusion is drawn | 8 | |
3844927033 | Omniscient | The narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters in the story | 9 | |
3844927034 | Prepositional phrase | Part of speech that indicates the relationship often spatial, of one word to another | 10 | |
3844927035 | Rhetorical modes | A strategy... A way or method of presenting a subject-- through writing or speech | 11 | |
3844927036 | Rhetorical question | A question asked solely to produce an affect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply | 12 | |
3844927037 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 13 | |
3844927038 | Transition | Change from one position to another | 14 | |
3844927039 | Passive voice | When the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb | 15 | |
3844927040 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings | 16 | |
3844927041 | Ad hominem argument | Switching from the argument at hand to the character opponent | 17 | |
3844927042 | Anachronism | Something or someone who is not in its correct chronological opponent | 18 | |
3844927043 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines | 19 | |
3844927044 | Astrophe | Inversion of the usual order of words | 20 | |
3844927045 | Antecedent | A word (usually a proper noun) that is replaced by a pronoun later in a sentence | 21 | |
3844927046 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 22 | |
3844927047 | Aphorism | A terse saying embodying a general truth | 23 | |
3844927048 | Apostrophe | A digression in the form of an address to someone not present | 24 | |
3844927049 | Assonance | Vowel rhyme, the same vowel sound is used within the same stressed syllables of different words | 25 | |
3844927050 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases clauses or word | 26 | |
3844927051 | Chaismus | Reversal in order of words in otherwise two parallel phrases | 27 | |
3844927052 | Clause | Collection of words that has a subject that is actively doing a verb. | 28 | |
3844927053 | Phrase | Collection of words that may have nouns or verbs, but it does not have a subject doing a verb | 29 | |
3844927054 | Consonance | The correspondence of a constants, especially those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose | 30 | |
3844927055 | Soliloquy | Discourse by a person who is talking to himself | 31 | |
3844927056 | Ellipsis | The omission of one or more words from q sentence that would clarify construction; sometimes marks as "..." | 32 | |
3844927057 | Conceit | An elaborate, fancil metaphor, especially of far fetched nature | 33 | |
3844927058 | Fallacy | A logically unsound argument | 34 | |
3844927059 | Invective | An insulting or abusive word or expression | 35 | |
3844927060 | Litotes | Figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, good, etc. an understatement | 36 | |
3844927061 | Looses sentences | A sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continue with one or more subordinate clauses | 37 |
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