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| 3152837322 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or the whole of it for a part. | 0 | |
| 3152837323 | Synesthesia | When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. Ex: the sight of red ants makes you itchy | 1 | |
| 3152837324 | Syntax | The way an author choose to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences similar to diction | 2 | |
| 3152837325 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Usually it is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, it may be directly state,.especially in expository or argumentive writing. | 3 | |
| 3152837326 | Thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinions, purpose, meaning, or position | 4 | |
| 3152837327 | Tone | Similar to mood, it describes the authors attitude toward his materials, the audience or both | 5 | |
| 3152837328 | Transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas used especially, although not exclusively in expository and argumentive writing, to signal a shift from one idea to another | 6 | |
| 3152837329 | Understatement | The ironic minimalizing of fact, to present something as less significant than it is and the effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic | 7 | |
| 3152837330 | Wit | In modern usage intellectually and using language that surprises and delights in this humorous well suggesting the speakers verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks | 8 | |
| 3152837331 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of a preceding clause | 9 | |
| 3152837332 | Anecdote | A short account of a particular and send or event especially as an interesting or amusing nature | 10 | |
| 3152837333 | Anthimeria | One part of speech substituting for another | 11 | |
| 3152837334 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 12 | |
| 3152837335 | Chiasmus | Also called "reverse parallelisms" since the second part of a grammatical clause | 13 | |
| 3152837336 | Cliché | An expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or affect, rendering it a stereotype | 14 | |
| 3152837337 | Dysphemism | The substitution of a more offensive or disparaging words or phrase for one considered less offensive | 15 | |
| 3152837338 | Epistrophe | A figure of speech and the counter part of an aspirin is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of a successive phrases clauses or sentences | 16 | |
| 3152837339 | Epithet | A rhetorical term for an adjective (ad phrase) used to characterize a person or thing | 17 | |
| 3152837340 | Inverted Syntax | A sentence in which the following subject does not start the sentence | 18 | |
| 3152837341 | Jargon | The language especially the vocab peculiar to the particular trade, profession or group | 19 |
