6743760387 | Choleric | Bad-tempered or irritable | 0 | |
6743767102 | Churlish | Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way | 1 | |
6743775023 | Derisive | Expressing contempt or ridicule | 2 | |
6743784639 | Obsequious | Obedient to a servile degree | 3 | |
6743797350 | Petulant | Bad tempered in a childish way | 4 | |
6743818815 | Sardonic | Grimly mocking or cynical | 5 | |
6744026981 | Circumlocution | To write around a subject, to say nothing | 6 | |
6744032906 | Double entendre | A phrase that has two meanings, one of them being sexual ;) | 7 | |
6744076067 | A writer can appeal to readers' | Needs, sense of tradition, ethics, emotions, logic/reason | 8 | |
6744081266 | A writer can appeal to | authority, core values | 9 | |
6744087519 | Modes of rhetoric | cause and effect, problem and solution, narrative, description, definition, humor, satire | 10 | |
6755148740 | Epigram | A short quotation or verse that precedes a text to set a tone, provide a setting or context. | 11 | |
6755222508 | Bade | to order or instruct | 12 | |
6755226246 | Belies | Contradicts | 13 | |
6755229519 | Bellicose | loud, argumentative | 14 | |
6755234385 | Entreat | to beg | 15 | |
6755241686 | Impious | disrespectful | 16 | |
6755250821 | Mien | bearing, presence, manner | 17 | |
6755254946 | Nascent | emerging, newly born or created | 18 | |
6755265509 | Pretense | Deception | 19 | |
6755282664 | Promulgate | to proclaim | 20 | |
6755285517 | Reticent | shy, unwilling | 21 | |
6755317460 | Suppliant | to petition or beseech | 22 | |
6755350905 | Dramatic irony | When the reader knows something that a character does not know | 23 | |
6755356188 | Verbal irony | When a character says one thing and means something else | 24 | |
6755364077 | Situational irony | When an event is different than expected | 25 |
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