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6818214016Prepositional phrasePreposition+(Optional modifier)+ noun, gerund, or clause. Ex. At home, in time, by singing, in the ugly garden0
6818234335GerundTerm derived from a verb that acts as a noun- ends in "ing". Ex. "Do you mind my asking of you?"1
6818261541AntithesisFigure of speech, contrasts two opposites through the parallelism of words. Ex. To err is human; to forgive, divine.2
6818273528AnaphoraThe repetition of a word/phrase at the start of successive clauses.3
6818290968AllusionCalls something to mind without stating it.4
6818301886HyperboleExaggeration of a claim not meant to be taken literally.5
6818317855Imperative moodForms commands or requests. Ex. Please be quiet.6
6818327044Citation format?Parenthetical Letters (A), (B)!!7
6818334923Rhetorical triangleAuthor, audience, subject. Remember context of prompt8
6818341078Tense?Present! "Is" "writes" "kills"9
6818362267EuphemismHarmless word/phrase to replace an offensive one. Ex, passing way instead of died, ethnic cleansing instead of genocide.10
6818369463Apostrophe"O god, I'm dying," the apostrophe is used when addressing an imagined figure or impersonal subject: "O books, how you dazzle."11
6818401272Simile vs AnalogySimiles are artistic/expressive, analogies are more explanatory.12
6818413638Epistrophe/AntistropheThe repetition of a word/phrase at the END of successive clauses.13
6819168356Antimetabole/ ChiasmusRepetition of words in reverse order. "Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country."14
6819179199AsyndetonOmission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases/words. "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."15
6819200187Cumulative sentenceStarts with a main point and then expand- often with a dash- to build on and support this point.16
6819211834Hortative sentenceCalls to action or advises17
6819221589MetonymyUsing a single feature to represent the whole. "In your hands, my fellow citizens, rest the final success or failure of our course."18
6819239460ZeugmaUse of two dif. words in a grammatically similar way but producing dif. meanings. Ex: call, as in "now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to arms - not as a call to battle - but a call to bear the burden."19

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