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| the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words | ||
| a passing reference to a familiar person, place or thing drawn from history, the Bible, mythology, or literature | ||
| the grammatical term for the noun of or pronoun from which another pronoun derives its meaning | ||
| a word or phrase that follows as noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity | ||
| a type of internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated | ||
| an expression that has become ineffective through overuse | ||
| a characteristic of or appropriate to spoken language or to writing that seeks its effect; are acceptable in formal writing only if they are used purposefully | ||
| the implied or suggested meaning of a word | ||
| the dictionary meaning of a word, the literal meaning | ||
| the process of reasoning from a stated premise to a necessary conclusion; this form of reasoning moves from the general to the specific | ||
| an author's choice of words; contributes to the tone of the text | ||
| a mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea; often used to soften the impact of what is being discussed | ||
| brief, imaginative comparisons that highlight the similarities between things that are basically dissimilar; they make writing vivid and interesting and therefore more memorable | ||
| an implicit comparison introduced by like or as | ||
| an implied comparison that uses one thing as the equivalent of another | ||
| when human traits are assigned to an inanimate object | ||
| an umbrella term for all uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison | ||
| a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis | ||
| When two contrasting things - ideas, words or sentence elements - are placed next to each other for comparison; sheds light on both elements in the comparison | ||
| an effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning | ||
| the thoughtful arrangement and presentation of one's points or ideas | ||
| combines two contradictory words in one expression | ||
| a seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth | ||
| a literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures (phrases, clauses, sentences) in a series in order to develop an argument or emphasize an idea | ||
| a question that is asked for the sake of argument | ||
| to ridicule or mock ideas, persons, events or doctrines, or to make fun of human foibles or weaknesses | ||
| a person, place or thing that presents something beyond itself | ||
| refers to the way words are arranged in a sentence | ||
| when an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves |
