9833725221 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 0 | |
9833725222 | Connotations | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 1 | |
9833822295 | Syntax | Arrangement of words in phrases and sentences | 2 | |
9834024948 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in writing | 3 | |
9834024949 | Archetype | Typical example of certain person or thing | 4 | |
9834024950 | Parallelism | Use of successive verbal constructions that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meaning | 5 | |
9834024951 | Apostrophe | Exclamatory passage addressed to a person (typically absent) | 6 | |
9834024952 | Syllogism | Conclusion drawn from assumed propositions | 7 | |
9834024953 | Colloquialism | Word or phrase that is not formal | 8 | |
9834024954 | Juxtaposition | Two things being seen together with contrasting effect | 9 | |
9834024955 | Analogy | Comparison between two things typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 10 | |
9834024956 | Epistrophe | Repetition of a word at the end of successive sentances | 11 | |
9834024957 | Antecedent | Word that pronoun refers to | 12 | |
9834024958 | Asyndeton | Omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 13 | |
9834024959 | Theme | Subject of talk, piece of writing, topic (moral) | 14 | |
9834024960 | Synedoche | Part is made to represent whole or vice versa | 15 | |
9834024961 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of last word of a preceding clause | 16 | |
9834024962 | Paradox | Self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 17 | |
9834024963 | Denotation | Literal or primary meaning of a word | 18 | |
9834024964 | Allegory | Story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically moral or political one | 19 | |
9834024965 | Imagery | Visually descriptive | 20 | |
9834024966 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms appear together | 21 | |
9834024967 | Metaphor | Comparing without like or as | 22 | |
9834024968 | Ethos | Trust the writer | 23 | |
9834024969 | Rhetorical question | Asked but doesn't require an answer | 24 | |
9834024970 | Figurative language | Uses words or expressions with a meaning thats different from literal interpretation | 25 | |
9834024971 | Pathos | Emotions | 26 | |
9834024972 | Allusion | Expression to call something to mind without mentoring explicitly | 27 | |
9834024973 | Logos | Logic | 28 | |
9834024974 | Personification | Nonhuman thing has human characteristics | 29 | |
9834024975 | Chiasmus | Words are repeated in reverse order or modified form | 30 | |
9834024976 | Antistrophe | repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses | 31 | |
9880317537 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
9880317538 | Antithesis | Person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 33 | |
9880317539 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 34 | |
9880317540 | Anathema | An object of intense dislike | 35 | |
9880317541 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 36 | |
9880317542 | Periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 37 | |
9880317543 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 38 |
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