7854992749 | imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 0 | |
7854994485 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 1 | |
7854996614 | syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 2 | |
7854998927 | figure of speech | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | 3 | |
7855003830 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 4 | |
7855003903 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 5 | |
7855005929 | epithet | A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something | 6 | |
7855011428 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 7 | |
7855014802 | parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 8 | |
7855017625 | connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 9 | |
7855017626 | logos | Appeal to logic | 10 | |
7855019893 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 11 | |
7855021580 | ethos | credibility | 12 | |
7855023496 | antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 13 | |
7855026422 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 14 | |
7855028240 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 15 | |
7855030133 | periodic | a structure where the punch is at the end | 16 | |
7855033733 | satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 17 | |
7855038229 | polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 18 | |
7855042965 | Horatian Satire | Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. | 19 | |
7855045381 | Juvenalian Satire | harsh, biting satire, full of moral indignation and bitter contempt | 20 | |
7855047276 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 21 | |
7855049072 | metonymy | a figure of speech that substitutes a word with a different but closely associated word | 22 |
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