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| 5622780230 | Mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of work. Setting, tone, and events can affect the _________. ___________ is similar to tone and atmosphere | 0 | |
| 5622790833 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 1 | |
| 5622795637 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buss, hiss, hum, crack, whinny, and murmur. | 2 | |
| 5622809722 | Oxymoron | From the Greek for "pointedly foolish," an ___________________ is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. Simple examples include "jumbo shrimp" and "cruel kindness." | 3 | |
| 5622833478 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 4 | |
| 5622848218 | Parallelism | Also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure, this term comes from Greek roots meaning "beside one another." It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. This can include repetition of a grammatical element such as a preposition or verbal phrase. | 5 | |
| 5622875959 | Anaphora | A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines of sentences. MLK used __________ in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. | 6 | |
| 5622884031 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. It exploits peculiarities of an authors expression. Well written __________ offers enlightenment about the original, but poorly written _________ offers only ineffectual imitation. | 7 | |
| 5622905857 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. Language might be described as "show-offy" using big words. | 8 | |
| 5622917336 | Periodic Sentence | The opposite of loose sentence, a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. This independent clause is precedence by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone. The effect of a ______________ is to add emphasis and structural variety. It is also a much stronger sentence than the loose sentence. | 9 |
