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| 8474093232 | Cliché | is a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse - it is not wise to use cliches - it can have a negative affect on speech and writing. | 0 | |
| 8474100445 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. These can be used only within a certain geographical area - usually conversational (dialect). | 1 | |
| 8474113139 | Concrete Language | Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities. | 2 | |
| 8474118215 | Dialect | a way of speaking that characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area (not formal). | 3 | |
| 8474125481 | Diction | a speaker or writer's choice of words. | 4 | |
| 8474127263 | Didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 5 | |
| 8474132793 | Humor | anything that causes laughter or amusement; up until the end of the Renaissance, humor meant a person's temperament. | 6 | |
| 8474139882 | Invective | a verbally abusive attack | 7 | |
| 8474144228 | Jargon | A special language of a profession or group. The term jargon usually has pejorative Associations with the implication that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders. The writings of the lawyer and the literary critic are both susceptible to jargon. | 8 | |
| 8474154727 | Local Color | a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape. | 9 | |
| 8474163249 | Logical Appeal; Logos | When a writer tries to persuade the audience based on statistics, facts, and reasons. | 10 | |
| 8474171963 | Pedantic | a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant | 11 | |
| 8474177274 | Regionalism | an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot | 12 | |
| 8474184060 | Sarcasm | harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle that irony | 13 | |
| 8474187522 | Stream of Consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 14 | |
| 8474195870 | Vernacular | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality. | 15 | |
| 8474200353 | Voice | refers to two different areas of writing. One refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive voice). The second refers to the total "sound" of a writer's style. | 16 |
