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| 14963723848 | Parenthesis | A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it- usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas. | 0 | |
| 14963760794 | Pathos | The means of persuasion that appeals to the audience's emotions. | 1 | |
| 14963766705 | Persona | A voice or mask that an author, speaker, or performer puts on for a particular purpose. | 2 | |
| 14963773395 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities | 3 | |
| 14963796386 | Polysyndeton | A rhetorical term for a sentence style that employs many coordinating conjunctions | 4 | |
| 14963827218 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 5 | |
| 14963832625 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 6 | |
| 14963849827 | Sarcasm | A mocking, often ironic or satirical remark. | 7 | |
| 14963882522 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of politics and other topical issues. | 8 | |
| 14963983268 | Scesis Onomaton | Figure of repetition in which a set of two or more different words having the same meaning occurs within the same sentence | 9 | |
| 14964003439 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox.) | 10 | |
| 14964029007 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole. | 11 | |
| 14964060113 | Syntax | the arrangement of words in a sentence | 12 | |
| 14964078806 | Tone | A writers attitude toward subject- primarily conveyed through diction, point of view, syntax, and level of formality. | 13 | |
| 14964109312 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller or less important than it actually is. | 14 |
