[node:title] Flashcards

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