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| 11299914410 | Sentential Adverb (sen-TEN-shul AD-verb) | - a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, that emphasizes the words before and after it - His finger is not, in fact, stuck permanently in his nose. 1. The lake, clearly, wasn't doing much for business. 2. Mental Cue: quora 3. Sentential adverbs modify an entire sentence and can sometimes change the meaning of a sentence. | 0 | |
| 11299950441 | Litotes (LY-tuh-teez) | - a form of understatement in which the opposite of the intended meaning is stated - Running your car into that tree certainly didn't do it any good. 1. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. 2. Mental Cue: sarcastic 3. Litotes has to be negative and is often exaggerated. | 1 | |
| 11299989093 | Distinctio (diss-TINK-tee-o) | - an explicit reference to a meaning of a word so that the author's intentions are clear - Landing a person on Mars is impossible-by "impossible" I mean currently beyond our technological capabilities. 1. Is it dangerous; will I be harmed? 2. Mental Cue: distinct 3. Distinctio is used to prevent people from making assumptions and being ambiguous. | 2 | |
| 11300021219 | Euphemism (YOO-fuh-miz-im) | - an indirect expression of something unpleasant, in order to minimize its impact - "heck" for hell, "Palmetto bug" for cockroach 1. | 3 | |
| 11300054615 | Narrative intrusion (adj+noun) | - when the author interrupts the narrative to give background information - Bill Bryson punctuating his and Katz' exploits with nature description | 4 | |
| 11300079702 | Amplification (noun) | - repeating the word or phrase with more description and emphasis - After ten days of dieting, I had visions of ice cream, towering mountains of ice cream, gooey and delicious and full of lovely ice-creamy calories. | 5 | |
| 11300108629 | Alliteration (uh-lit-ter-RAY-shun) | - the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or middle of two or more adjacent words - "To make a man who matches in moral need..." (Edwin Markham) | 6 | |
| 11300149810 | Anadiplosis (ann-uh-dip-PLOH-sis) | - repeating a word or phrase at the end of one clause at the beginning of the next clause - Our doubt is our passion, our passion is our task. | 7 | |
| 11300168904 | Anaphora (ann-uh-FOR-uh) | - repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses - "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and on the streets..."(Winston Churchill) | 8 | |
| 11300200973 | Anthimeria (an-thih-MAIR-ee-uh) | - the substitution of one part of speech for another - Calvin: I like to verb words. Hobbes: What? Calvin: Verbing weirds language | 9 |
