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| 3579600288 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or call to action | 0 | |
| 4954799370 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point | 1 | |
| 4954811402 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence | 2 | |
| 4954816274 | irony | figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected, creating a noticeable incongruity | 3 | |
| 4954829467 | juxtaposition | placement of 2 things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 4 | |
| 4954833963 | mood | feeling or atmosphere created by a text | 5 | |
| 4954837828 | propaganda | spread of ideas and information to further a cause. a lot of propaganda carries a negative connotation as it utilizes rumors, lies, disinformation, and scare tactics | 6 | |
| 4954845711 | satire | critiquing society, its institutions, or groups of people generally through irony or sarcasm | 7 | |
| 4954857504 | antimetabole | repetition of words in a reverse order | 8 | |
| 4954867680 | archaic | old fashioned or outdated | 9 | |
| 4954867681 | archaic diction | old fashioned or outdated word choice | 10 | |
| 4954867758 | connotation | implied meaning of a word | 11 | |
| 4954870576 | diction | word choice | 12 | |
| 4954875366 | figurative language | nonliteral language, sometimes referred to as tropes or metaphorical language, often evoking strong imagery. Figures of speech can compare things explicitly or implicitly. Other techniques may include personification, paradox, hyperbole, understatement, and irony | 13 | |
| 4954916017 | analogy | comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things; often uses something simple or familiar to explain something unfamiliar or complex | 14 | |
| 4954926742 | anecdote | brief story used to illustrate a point or claim | 15 | |
| 4954931968 | alliteration | repetition of same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence | 16 | |
| 4954937025 | allusion | a brief reference to a person, place, or event, or to a work of art | 17 | |
| 4954940911 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 18 | |
| 4954950909 | scheme | artful syntax; deviation from the normal order of words. common themes include parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, antimetabole | 19 | |
| 4954960485 | syntax | arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences, includes word order, length and structure of sentences, and such scheme | 20 | |
| 4954968979 | tone | speakers attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speakers stylistic and rhetorical choices | 21 | |
| 4954983379 | trope | artful diction; from the Greeks word for "turning" a figure of speech such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole | 22 | |
| 4954991936 | understatement | a figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect | 23 | |
| 4954999970 | wit | in rhetoric, the use of laughter, humor, irony, and satire in the confirmation or refutation of an argument | 24 | |
| 4954863041 | archaic | old fashioned or outdated | 25 |
