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| 260572730 | Connotation | An idea that is implied or suggested. EX: "A rose by any other name smells as sweet." if you called them "Stench Blossoms." | |
| 264368038 | Denotation | Direct or dictionary meaning of a word. EX: "Vizzini: He didn't fall? Inconceivable. Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." | |
| 264412831 | Diction | Style of speaking or writing or word choice> EX: Effervescent | |
| 264412832 | Syntax | The arrangement of words in a sentence. EX: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." | |
| 264412833 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. EX: "The more we do, the more we can do" | |
| 258791125 | Chiasmus | Second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed. EX:"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." | |
| 260554527 | Isocolon | Sentences of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. EX: "Nothing that's beautiful hides its face. Nothing that's honest hides its name." | |
| 264412834 | Antithesis ( Juxtaposition) | Contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses. EX: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." | |
| 260554525 | Zeugma | Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one. EX: Zeus hurled his thunder bolt and his anger | |
| 260572729 | Bathos | A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one. EX: "I should say this--that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything." | |
| 264412835 | Asyndeton | Writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. EX: "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." | |
| 264412836 | Polysyndeton | Sentence style that employs many coordinating conjunctions. EX: "Steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and petrol and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday." | |
| 258791127 | Paraleipsis | Emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it. EX: A pair of lips sealed = not talking | |
| 264412837 | Alliteration | Repetition of an initial consonant sound. EX: "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife." | |
| 260572731 | Assonance | Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. EX: "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!" | |
| 264412838 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds; more specifically, the repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. EX: "Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair" | |
| 264412839 | Onomatopoeia | Use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. EX: "Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime." | |
| 258773967 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. EX: I have a dream MLK JR. | |
| 258773966 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next. EX: Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. | |
| 258773968 | Antistrophe/ Epistrophe | Same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses, sentences, or lines. EX: Where affections bear rule, their reason is subdued, honesty is subdued...... | |
| 260572728 | Metaphor | Comparison not using like or as. EX:"I Feel Like Dying" | |
| 264412840 | Simile | Comparison using like or as. EX: "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." | |
| 264412841 | Personification | An inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. EX: The wind stood up and gave a shout. | |
| 264412842 | Apostrophe | Some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. EX: "O western wind, when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain?" | |
| 264412843 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. EX: He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. | |
| 264412844 | Understatement | A writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. EX: "I am just going outside and may be some time." | |
| 264412845 | Verbal Irony | A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. EX: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." | |
| 260544386 | Metonymy/ Synecdoche | One word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. EX: All Hands on Deck | |
| 258791128 | Paranormasia | Punning, playing with words EX :I used to be a tap dancer until I fell in the sink | |
| 260544384 | Litotes | Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary). EX: " i was not a little upset" vs, " i was very upset" | |
| 258791129 | Synethesia | Which one sense modality is described or characterized in terms of another, such as "a bright sound" or "a quiet color." | |
| 260554524 | Paradox | Statement appears to contradict itself. EX: "The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot." | |
| 260544385 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms appear side by side. EX: Civil War, Jumbo Shrimp, Controlled Ciaos | |
| 264412846 | Neologism | Use of new words or new senses of existing words. EX: That guys a tool | |
| 258791130 | Euphemism | An inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. EX: Died vs. Passed away | |
| 264412847 | Circumlocution | The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language to avoid getting to the point. EX: Horse- its like a pony but bigger, and i goes NEH | |
| 264426087 | Inductive | A method of reasoning that moves from specific instances to a general conclusion. EX: Duck tape fixes everything. My lamp is broken, therefore duck tape can fix my lamp. | |
| 264426088 | Deductive | A method of reasoning from the general to the specific. EX:Everything made of copper conducts electricity. (Premise) This wire is made of copper. (Premise) This wire will conduct electricity. (Conclusion) | |
| 258773969 | Syllogism | Deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. EX: Major premise: All books from that store are new. Minor premise: These books are from that store. Conclusion: Therefore, these books are new. | |
| 258791126 | Non-Sequitur | Something that does not logically follow. EX :My cat doesn't have a tail. Therefore, all cats that have tails aren't cats. | |
| 264426089 | Pacing | The speed at which the story progresses based on dialog, descriptions, flashbacks etc..... | |
| 258773965 | Allegory | An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances. EX: Extended Metaphor | |
| 260572732 | Allusion | Brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. EX: "I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." | |
| 264426090 | Foreshadowing | The presentation of details, characters, or incidents in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for (or "shadowed forth"). EX: The witches in the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth foreshadow the evil events that will follow. | |
| 264426091 | Mood | The dominant impression or emotional atmosphere evoked by the text. | |
| 264426092 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward subject, audience, and self. | |
| 264426093 | Aphorism | A statement of a truth or opinion. EX: "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." | |
| 260554526 | Apotheosis | Model of excellence or perfection of a kind. EX: One having no equal | |
| 258791131 | Colloquialism | Informal expression that is more often used in casual conversation than in formal speech or writing. EX:She was recently dumped by her fiance |
