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| 14758615032 | antithesis | contrast; opposition ex. "hope for the best; be prepared for the worst" | 0 | |
| 14758615033 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions ex. "the air was thick, warm, heavy, and sluggish" | 1 | |
| 14758615034 | paradox | statement that contradicts itself; however it still states the truth ex. "we must fight for peace" | 2 | |
| 14758615035 | allusion | a reference, usually to another literary work
ex: "we just hit and iceberg" | 3 | | |
| 14758615036 | anaphora | word or phrase is repeated in beginning of series of sentences, clauses, or phrases ex: "i will.. i will... i will" | 4 | |
| 14758615037 | epistrophe | word or phrase is repeated at the end ex: "will do my best.. will do my best.. will do my best.." | 5 | |
| 14758615038 | bathos | an abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect; anticlimax ex. "what light through yonder, window breaks & it's the east, and oh, it's hot that chick i met an hour ago." | 6 | |
| 14758615039 | conceit | an unusually far-fetched or elaborate metaphoror simile presenting a surprising apt parallel between 2 dissimilar things or feelings | 7 | |
| 14758615040 | euphemism | a more pleasant way of saying something ex: "she passed away" sounds better than "she died" | 8 | |
| 14758615041 | hyperbole | exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally ex: "im starving" | 9 | |
| 14758615042 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. ex. "bottle" for alcohol | 10 | |
| 14758615043 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents a whole ex. "hands" for manual labor | 11 | |
| 14758615044 | cumulative sentence (loose sentence) | begins with standard pattern and adds multiple details after it ex: "the women moved through the streets as winged messengers, twirling around and around each other in slow motion, peeking inside homes and watching the easy sleep of men and women." | 12 | |
| 14758615045 | periodic sentence | a long sentence in which the completion of the syntax is delayed until the end, usually after a series of balanced subordinate clauses ex: "crossing a bare common, in slow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence or special good fortune, i have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration." | 13 | |
| 14758615046 | alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds ex: "the sun set slowly in the summer sky" | 14 | |
| 14758615047 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds ex: "the tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curlew calls" | 15 | |
| 14758615048 | consonance | the repetition of 2 or more consonants w a change in the intervening vowels ex: "tick tock" "click clack" | 16 | |
| 14758615049 | zeugma | a figure of speech by which one word (verb, preposition) refers to 2 others in the same sentence | 17 | |
| 14758615050 | chiasmus | a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first 2 parallel clauses is reversed in the second | 18 | |
| 14758615051 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse order ex: "you can take a boy out of a country, but you can't take a country out of a boy" | 19 | |
| 14758615052 | litotes | a figure of speech in which affirmation is made indirectly by denying it's opposite, usually w an effect of understatement ex: "how was the movie?" "not bad." | 20 | |
| 14758615053 | ethos | appeal to the text to the credibility & character of the speaker, writer, or narrator | 21 | |
| 14758615054 | logos | appeal of a text or speech based on a logical structure of it's argument | 22 | |
| 14758615055 | pathos | appeal of a text or speech to the emotions of the audience | 23 | |
| 14758615056 | tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject matter ex: humorous, frustrated | 24 | |
| 14758615057 | aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes observation about life | 25 | |
| 14758615058 | diction | word choice | 26 | |
| 14758615059 | imagery | language that appeals to the 5 senses | 27 | |
| 14758615060 | extended metaphor | a metaphor that compares 2 things at some lengths | 28 | |
| 14758615061 | colloquialism | the use of informal expressions appropriate to everyday speech rather than the formality of writing | 29 | |
| 14758615062 | allegory | a symbolic story ex: animal farm is an allegory of the russian rebellion | 30 | |
| 14758615063 | deductive reasoning | reaches a conclusion by assuming a general premise & applying that principle to a specific case | 31 | |
| 14758615064 | elegy | a poem of mourning | 32 | |
| 14758615065 | epitaph | writing in praise of a dead person | 33 | |
| 14758615066 | flashback | an earlier event is inserted into normal chronology of the narration | 34 | |
| 14758615067 | inductive reasoning | the process of generalizing on the basis of a # of specific examples & then presenting an inductive conclusion (goes from specific to general) | 35 | |
| 14758615068 | irony | a discrepancy between appearances and reality | 36 | |
| 14758615069 | isocolon | parallel structure in which the elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length | 37 | |
| 14758615070 | jargon | specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group | 38 | |
| 14758615071 | onamatapoeia | words that imitate sound ex: "whack" "crack" "fizz" | 39 | |
| 14758615072 | metaphor | makes comparison between unlike things w/o using like or as | 40 | |
| 14758615073 | personification | something non human is given human characteristics | 41 | |
| 14758615074 | rhetoric | the art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking | 42 | |
| 14758615075 | satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a social change | 43 | |
| 14758615076 | simile | comparing using like or as | 44 | |
| 14758615077 | symbolism | anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it | 45 | |
| 14758615078 | syntax | sentence structure | 46 | |
| 14758615079 | polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions (FANBOYS) | 47 | |
| 14758615080 | apostrophe | a rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object | 48 | |
| 14758615081 | eulogy | a speech or written passage that honors a deceased person | 49 | |
| 14758615082 | rhetorical question | a question asked for the sake of persuasive effect rather than as a genuine request for information | 50 | |
| 14758615083 | juxtaposition | to place side by side | 51 | |
| 14758615084 | analogy | a descriptive word or phrase that is frequently used to characterize a person or thing | 52 | |
| 14758615085 | understatement | a statement that says less than what is meant | 53 | |
| 14758615086 | sonnet | a lyric poem compromising fourteen rhyming lines of equal length | 54 | |
| 14758615087 | exposition | the setting forth of a systematic explanation | 55 |
