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14596342768Emotive Languagelanguage that expresses or appeals to emotion0
14596342769Connotationthe emotion or social meaning of a word or phrase1
14596342770Euphemisimwords or phrases that are used instead of harsher or uglier words/phrases2
14596342771Slanted Languagebiased or prejudiced language that favors a particular point of view3
14596342772Slang/Colloquialisminformal language considered nonstandard and not usually acceptable in formal situations4
14596342773Cliches/Aphorisms/Maximsexpressions that are used so often that they have lost their value5
14596342774Picturesque Language/Imagerylanguage that appeals to the senses6
14596342775Concrete/Abstract Languagereal objects vs. things that can be defined in many ways7
14596342776Equivocationwriter uses words that have more than one meaning to be intentionally ambiguous8
14596342777Antithesisopposite words9
14596342778Juxtapositionwords/images put side by side10
14596342779Toneattitude of the speaker toward another character, place, idea, or thing11
14596342780Stylevoice of the writer12
14675305804Personificationattribution of a human characteristic to something nonhuman13
14675305805Oxymoronstatement where contradictory terms appear in conjunction14
14675305806Metaphora thing regarded as representative of something else, especially something abstract15
14675305807Synecdochereplacing a word with a part of the object16
14675305808Analogya comparison of two things, to explain or clarify17
14675305809Compound Complex Sentencea sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.18
14675305810Declarative Sentencea sentence that makes a statement or declaration19
14675305811Imperative SentenceA sentence that requests or commands.20
14675305812Complex Sentencea sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.21
14675305813Inverted Syntaxunusual word order22
14675305814Simple Sentencea sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.23
14675305815Compound Sentencea sentence with more than one subject or predicate.24
14675305816Exclamatory Sentencea sentence that conveys excitement or force25
14675305817Understatementthe presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.26
14675305818Interrogative Sentenceasks a question27
14675305819Asyndetonconjunctions are omitted28
14675305820Epistropherepetition at the ends of phrases29
14675305821Hyperboleexaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.30
14675305822Chiasmus2 corresponding pairs of words in ABBA format31
14675305823Polysyndetonlots of conjunctions32
14675305824Periodic Sentencemost important idea comes at the end33
14675305825Loose Sentenceidea is revealed early34
14675305826Parallel Sentenceboth halves are equal in importance and grammar35
14675305827Anaphorarepetition in the beginning of phrases36
14675305828Metonymyreplacing a word with a closely related word37

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