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| 204070165 | Allegory | The device of using character/and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to literary meaning. | |
| 204070166 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | |
| 204070167 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | |
| 204070168 | Anadiplosis | ("double back") the rhetorical repetition of on or several words; specifically; repetition of words that ends one clause and is the beginning of the next. | |
| 204070169 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successice phrases, clauses, or lines. | |
| 204070170 | Antistrophe | repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses | |
| 204070171 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast of ideas words in a balanced, or parallel construction. | |
| 204070172 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral | |
| 204070173 | Aporia | Expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do. | |
| 204070174 | Aposiopesis | a form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion (fear, excitement, etc.) or modesty. | |
| 204070175 | Apostrophe | a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group, person, or personified abstraction | |
| 204070176 | Archaism | use of an older or obsolete form. | |
| 212735270 | Asyndenton | lack of conjunctions between phrases | |
| 212735271 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | the use slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing. Colloquialisms give a word a conversational, familiar tone. | |
| 212735272 | Conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor. | |
| 212735273 | Cacophony | harsh joining of sounds | |
| 212735274 | Chaismus | 2 corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a) | |
| 212735275 | Didactic | from the Greek, didactic (literally meaning "teaching") | |
| 212735276 | Euphemism | more agreeable or less offensive substitutes for a generally unpleasant word or concept | |
| 212735277 | Loose Sentence | puts the main idea before all supplementary information, lets you know what its mainly about in the first few words | |
| 212735278 | Periodic Sentence | main idea is expressed at the end of the sentence, the independent clause is at the end | |
| 241844805 | Enthymeme | an informally stated syllogism which omits either one of the premises or the conclusion. The omitted part must be clearly understood by the reader. The usual form of this logical shorthand omits the major premise. | |
| 241844806 | Syllogism | an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion. | |
| 241844807 | Epanalepsis | repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. The beginning and the end are the two positions of strongest emphasis in a sentence, so by having the same word in both places, you call special attention to it. | |
| 241844808 | Epistrophe | (aka antistrophe) forms the counterpart of anaphora (repetition at the end) | |
| 241844809 | Epithet | an adjective phrase appropriately qualifying a subject by naming a key or important characteristic of the subject, as in "sneering contempt" "untroubled sleep" "peaceful dawn" and "life-giving water" | |
| 241844810 | Litotes | a particular form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used. Depending on the tone and context of the usage, litotes either retains the effect of understatement, or becomes an intensifying expression. (Heat waves are common in the summer.) | |
| 241844811 | Metonomy | a form of metaphor, very similar to synechdoche, in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with the subject with which it is likely to be compared. (The orders came directly from the White House.) | |
| 241844812 | Oxymoron | a paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun or adverb-adjective relationship, and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit. | |
| 241844813 | Parallelism | recurrent syntactical similarity. Several parts of a sentence are expressed similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences are equal in importance. Parallelism also adds balance and rhythm and, most importantly, clarity to the sentence. | |
| 241844814 | Polysyndeton | the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of polysyndeton, however, often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration and building up. |
