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| 6744349 | anadiplosis | the repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | |
| 6744350 | anaphora | the repetition of a group of words at the beginning of sucessive clauses | |
| 6744351 | anecdote | a brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audinces generaliztion or claim | |
| 6744352 | antimetabole | repetition of words in sucessive clauses in revers grammatical order | |
| 6744353 | asyndeton | the omission of conjuctions between related clauses | |
| 6744354 | begging the question | the sitation that results when a writer or speaker constructs and arguement on an assuptionthat the audien does not accept | |
| 6744355 | litotes | understatement | |
| 6744356 | metonmy | an entity referred to be one of its attributes or associations | |
| 6744357 | oxymoron | juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings | |
| 6744358 | parallelism | a set of similarly structed words,phrases or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph | |
| 6744359 | jargon | the specialized vocabulary of a particular group | |
| 6744360 | irony | writting or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken | |
| 6744361 | inductive reasoning | reasoning that begins by citing number of specific instances or examples and then shows collectively they constitute a general principal | |
| 6744362 | hyperbole | an exaggeration for effect | |
| 6744363 | epistrophe | the repetition of a groupl of words at the end of sucessive clauses | |
| 6744364 | deductive reasoning | reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demostrates the general principles | |
| 6744365 | connotation | implies meaning of a words in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning" | |
| 6744366 | climax/ climbing the ladder | arrangement of words,phrases in order of increasing number of importance | |
| 6744367 | periphases | substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name or use proper name to suggest a personality characterstic | |
| 6744368 | pun | a play on words | |
| 6744369 | sarcasm | the use of mocekry or bitter irony | |
| 6744370 | syllogism | logical reasoning from inarguable premises | |
| 6744371 | symbol | in a text an element that stands more than itself and therefore helps to convery a tthem of the text | |
| 6744372 | synecdoche | a part of something used to refer to the whole |