14596342768 | Emotive Language | language that expresses or appeals to emotion | 0 | |
14596342769 | Connotation | the emotion or social meaning of a word or phrase | 1 | |
14596342770 | Euphemisim | words or phrases that are used instead of harsher or uglier words/phrases | 2 | |
14596342771 | Slanted Language | biased or prejudiced language that favors a particular point of view | 3 | |
14596342772 | Slang/Colloquialism | informal language considered nonstandard and not usually acceptable in formal situations | 4 | |
14596342773 | Cliches/Aphorisms/Maxims | expressions that are used so often that they have lost their value | 5 | |
14596342774 | Picturesque Language/Imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 6 | |
14596342775 | Concrete/Abstract Language | real objects vs. things that can be defined in many ways | 7 | |
14596342776 | Equivocation | writer uses words that have more than one meaning to be intentionally ambiguous | 8 | |
14596342777 | Antithesis | opposite words | 9 | |
14596342778 | Juxtaposition | words/images put side by side | 10 | |
14596342779 | Tone | attitude of the speaker toward another character, place, idea, or thing | 11 | |
14596342780 | Style | voice of the writer | 12 | |
14675305804 | Personification | attribution of a human characteristic to something nonhuman | 13 | |
14675305805 | Oxymoron | statement where contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 14 | |
14675305806 | Metaphor | a thing regarded as representative of something else, especially something abstract | 15 | |
14675305807 | Synecdoche | replacing a word with a part of the object | 16 | |
14675305808 | Analogy | a comparison of two things, to explain or clarify | 17 | |
14675305809 | Compound Complex Sentence | a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 18 | |
14675305810 | Declarative Sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or declaration | 19 | |
14675305811 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 20 | |
14675305812 | Complex Sentence | a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. | 21 | |
14675305813 | Inverted Syntax | unusual word order | 22 | |
14675305814 | Simple Sentence | a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate. | 23 | |
14675305815 | Compound Sentence | a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. | 24 | |
14675305816 | Exclamatory Sentence | a sentence that conveys excitement or force | 25 | |
14675305817 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 26 | |
14675305818 | Interrogative Sentence | asks a question | 27 | |
14675305819 | Asyndeton | conjunctions are omitted | 28 | |
14675305820 | Epistrophe | repetition at the ends of phrases | 29 | |
14675305821 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 30 | |
14675305822 | Chiasmus | 2 corresponding pairs of words in ABBA format | 31 | |
14675305823 | Polysyndeton | lots of conjunctions | 32 | |
14675305824 | Periodic Sentence | most important idea comes at the end | 33 | |
14675305825 | Loose Sentence | idea is revealed early | 34 | |
14675305826 | Parallel Sentence | both halves are equal in importance and grammar | 35 | |
14675305827 | Anaphora | repetition in the beginning of phrases | 36 | |
14675305828 | Metonymy | replacing a word with a closely related word | 37 |
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