Terms : Hide Images
| 7439036082 | leptologia | using careful languagw to obfuscate ex: "that depends on what your definition of 'is' is" | 0 | |
| 7439036083 | litotes | a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 1 | |
| 7439036084 | logos | logical appeal | 2 | |
| 7439036085 | loose sentence | one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units | 3 | |
| 7439036086 | malapropism | humorous misuse of a word | 4 | |
| 7439036087 | maxim | an established principle; a truth or rule of conduct | 5 | |
| 7439036088 | metanoia | self-editing figure | 6 | |
| 7439036089 | metaphor | comparison not using like or as | 7 | |
| 7439036090 | metastasis | a figure of thought that skips over an awkward matter ex: your hair looks so nice, by the way i got arrested, wow i love that shirt | 8 | |
| 7439036091 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant ex: the throne is queen of england | 9 | |
| 7439036092 | mood | how the reader feels about a piece while reading | 10 | |
| 7439036093 | motif | a recurring theme, subject, or idea throughout a piece | 11 | |
| 7439036094 | narrative | the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events | 12 | |
| 7439036095 | neologism | new word or expression | 13 | |
| 7439036096 | non sequitur | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | 14 | |
| 7439036097 | onomatopoeia | word that imitates sound it represents | 15 | |
| 7439036098 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 16 | |
| 7439036099 | paradigm | a rule that arises from patterns | 17 | |
| 7439036100 | paradox | a statement that contradicts itself | 18 | |
| 7439036101 | paralipsis | mentioning something by saying you're not gonna mention it ex: i'm not gonna talk about how bad your hair is right now | 19 |
