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| 300929802 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | |
| 300929803 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | |
| 300929804 | anadiplosis | repeating the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next, e.g. Nietzsche said, "Talent is adornment; an adornment is also a concealment." | |
| 300929805 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | |
| 300929806 | antimetabole | Repitition of words in succussive clauses in reverse grammatical order ("You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.") | |
| 300929807 | Anglo- saxon diction | Word choice characterized by simple, often one- or two-syllable nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. | |
| 300929808 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | |
| 300929809 | appositive | A word or phrase that follow a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity | |
| 300929810 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | |
| 300929811 | asyndenton | a style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a fast-paced, more rapid prose; ex: Caesar's famous lines, "I came, I saw, I conquered" | |
| 300929812 | climax | arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order to increase number or importance | |
| 300929813 | connotation | refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | |
| 300929814 | denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color | |
| 300929815 | diction | the author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning | |
| 300929816 | double entendre | the double (or multiple) meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous | |
| 300929817 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced for the context ("Some people prefer cats; others, dogs.") | |
| 300929818 | epistrophe | the repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses | |
| 300929819 | euphemism | a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable. "He went to his final reward" for "he died." | |
| 300929820 | hyperbole | an exaggeration for effect | |
| 300929821 | jargon | the specialized language or vocabulary of a particular group or profession | |
| 300929822 | latinate diction | Vocabulary characterized by the choice of elaborate, often complicated words derived from Latin roots. | |
| 300929823 | litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | |
| 300929824 | metaphor | comparison not using like or as | |
| 300929825 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ("The pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war/fighting].") | |
| 300929826 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | |
| 300929827 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | |
| 300929828 | parenthesis | an insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence | |
| 300929829 | periphrasis | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a name, "fickle mistress" for luck, "big man upstairs" for God | |
| 300929830 | personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | |
| 300929831 | simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | |
| 300929832 | synecdoche | Part as representative of the whole. "All hands on deck" | |
| 300929833 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | |
| 300929834 | verisimilitude | the appearance of truth | |
| 300929835 | zeugma | use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one |
