3466249214 | inference/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from given evidence. | 0 | |
3466253808 | invective | emotionally violent, or abusive language. | 1 | |
3466261575 | irony | the contrast of what is specifically stated and what is meant | 2 | |
3466262178 | loose sentence | a type of sentence in which the independent clause comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 3 | |
3466269133 | metaphor | the implied comparison of seemingly unlike things, or substituting one for the other. | 4 | |
3466275868 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with is | 5 | |
3466277216 | mood | an element that evokes certain emotions in the reader through words or descriptions | 6 | |
3466280111 | narrative | the telling of a story or a series of events | 7 | |
3466282221 | onomatopoeia | natural sounds that are imitated through words | 8 | |
3466286297 | oxymoron | when two very different words or phrases are placed together to create a paradox ex) jumbo shrimp | 9 | |
3466288550 | paradox | a statement that seems to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense. | 10 | |
3466291023 | parallelism | refers to the rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity | 11 |
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