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| 31255171 | accumulation | a list of words that embody similar meanings with the intention of emphasizing their common qualities (Ex: "having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich" - Swift) | 0 | |
| 31255172 | dysphemism | an unpleasant way of saying something that could have been stated more pleasantly; opposite of euphemism (Ex: "They turned on him to betray him and rend him like rats in a sewer. Low-lived dogs!" - Joyce) | 1 | |
| 31255173 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause; adds emphasis to main idea (Ex: "The mountains look on Marathon - And Marathon looks on the sea" - Byron) | 2 | |
| 31255175 | eristic | when writers/speakers argue vehemently without reaching a conclusion or solving a particular issue; done to prolong a conflict rather than resolve it (Ex: "men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations . . . would leave the minds, of a number of men . . . full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves" - Bacon) | 3 | |
| 31255176 | exemplum | a brief legend, folktale, or fable used to make a point in an argument or to illustrate a moral truth (Ex: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Plutarch's Parallel Lives) | 4 | |
| 440830290 | bombast | pompous or overblown language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas (Ex."a man who labors under the pressure of pecuniary embarrassments, is, with the generality of people, at a disadvantage." - Dickens' David Copperfield) | 5 | |
| 623071182 | decorum | in literature, where a character's speech is styled according to his/her social station and the particular occasion; a bum speaks like a bum, a princess only about higher topics (Ex. Gravediggers in Hamlet are coarse and bawdy while prince Hamlet give soliloquies on noble topics.) | 6 | |
| 380945972 | interior monologue | writing in novels and poetry where a character's thoughts are expressed; different from stream of consciousness in that the thoughts are organized (Ex. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" or Hamlet's soliloquy) | 7 | |
| 787141167 | melodrama | dramatic form characterized by excessive sentiment, exaggerated emotion, stereotypical characters, sensational action, and an artificially happy ending; meant to create an extreme emotional response (Ex. Rose and Harry in Dickens' Oliver Twist) | 8 | |
| 657519318 | suspension of disbelief | demand made of a theater/reading audience to accept the limitations of film/stage/novel; audience's acceptance of a plot's believability; done for the sake of enjoyment (Ex. Supernatural elements in Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner") | 9 |
