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4174382735RhetoricTechniques and strategies used by an author in composing a particular passage0
4174383621MoodThe feelings that a poem or prose arouses in the reader1
4174384729ToneThe author's/speaker's feelings about the subject. (It elicits the psychological quality of the words.)2
4174402863DictionWord choice3
4174402864SyntaxWord order4
4174476295OnomatopoeiaWords that imitate the sounds they describe5
4174476296AlliterationRepetition of internal sounds in words and syllables6
4174476884RhythmCombination of sounds/accents/phrases/pauses. Often used to arouse emotions.7
4174488690Analogycomparison of 2 things (sometimes of things that have several common characteristics)8
4174494595MetonymyComparison by substituting another thing with a specific relationship (ex. abstract for concrete or vice versa, or cause for effect of vice versa, etc)9
4174496107SynechdocheA metonymy in which a part is made to represent a whole or vice versa10
4174501056anthologya published collection of poems or of other pieces of writing11
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