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| 31274879 | Aesthetic | Pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or for form; pertaining to the critical reflection on art, nature, culture, or beauty. | |
| 31274880 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause. | |
| 31274881 | Anaphora | Literary device of repetition, in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of a series of lines. (eg Martin Luther King's repetition of the phrase "I have a dream that...") | |
| 31274882 | Appeals to logic | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker attempts to persuade the listener through use of deductive reasoning. | |
| 31274883 | Begging the question | To sidestep or evade the real problem. | |
| 31274884 | Claim | An assertion of something as fact; to demand as a right or as due; a statement that you want your audience to believe. | |
| 31274885 | Convention | An accepted manner, model, or tradition; a common way of looking at or examining something. | |
| 31274886 | Diction | An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect. | |
| 31274887 | Elegy | Poem or prose lamenting the death of a particular person. | |
| 31274888 | Ethos | In dramatic literature, the moral element that determines a charcter's actions, rather than thought or emotion. | |
| 31274889 | Eulogy | A speech or writing in praise of a person or thing; an oration in honor of a deceased person, typically given at a funeral or memorial. | |
| 31274890 | Genre | Term used to describe literary forms, such as tragedy, comedy, novel or essay; a loose set of criteria that groups together types of writing/composition | |
| 31274891 | Invective | The use of angry and insulting language in satirical writing. | |
| 31274892 | Litote | Form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve. (eg Saying "You're not terrible" to express that you did a wonderful job) | |
| 31274893 | Narrative device | Use of techniques such as flashbacks and/or digression in the telling of a story. | |
| 31274894 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, as in "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence". | |
| 31274895 | Perspective | A character's view of the situation or events in the story. | |
| 31274896 | Reflective | A piece of writing that gives considered thought to something. | |
| 31274897 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness, often for the sake of changing society for the better. | |
| 31274898 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole, such as "head of cattle" or "hands on deck". | |
| 31274899 | Trope | The use of a word in a figurative sense with a decided change or extension in its literal meaning; a shift in the typical meaning of a word (eg "I put down my weapon of choice at the end of my test--a dull #2 lead pencil") |
