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| an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | ||
| This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | ||
| "instructive" primary aim is to teach or instruct; primarily moral or ethical principles | ||
| A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some personified abstraction | ||
| a representation, especially, pictoral or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities, are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. | ||
| To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade. | ||
| give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | ||
| To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense). | ||
| The act of detesting extremely. | ||
| sunk to a low condition | ||
| an argument that deals with action to be taken in the future, focusing on matters of policy. Includes parliamentary debates and campaign platforms | ||
| wickedness or sin | ||
| awesome, strong, imposing, impressive, possibly inspiring fear or dread | ||
| impressively huge, enourmous; extraordinary, marvelous | ||
| an argument in which the claim can be proved or disproved with specific evidence or testimony. | ||
| an argument that seeks to explain the effect(s) of a cause, the cause(s) of an effect, or a causal chain in which A causes B, B causes C, C causes D, and so on | ||
| an argument that deals with current values and addresses questions of praise and blame. Includes eulogies and graduation speeches | ||
| a fallacy of argument in which a writer's claim is answered by irrelevant attacks on his or her character | ||
| argumentative, seeking and enjoying disagreement | ||
| divine care; God's care; | ||
| The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | ||
| a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects;intelectual cleverness | ||
| resentment based on a feeling of having been injured | ||
| placing dissimilar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast | ||
| more agreable less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concept. (PC, or to add humor or irony. | ||
| to beg or plead | ||
| finding fault; judging harshly | ||
| chosen at random or without apparent reason | ||
| loyalty; fidelity | ||
| A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. |
