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| one syllable vs. many syllables |
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| euphonious vs. carcophonous |
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| pleasent sound vs. harsh sound |
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| accurate w/o embellishment vs. a comparison creating a pictoral effect |
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| denotative vs. connotative |
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| exact meaning vs. suggested meaning |
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| unemotional and impersonal vs. emtional and personal |
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| states action vs. states being |
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| specific and tangible vs. conceptual and philosophical |
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| hyperbolic (overstated) vs. understated |
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| deliverate exaggeratio nof facts vs. a misrepresentation of less |
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| laymans term vs. boorish inflated language; crude, clumsy |
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| language deficient in taste and refinement |
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| vernacular speech; humorous, exaggerated, or shortened for effect |
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| language specific to a field or profession |
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| language used so often it has lost its expression |
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| correct, but conversational. *uses contracations, "their" to refer to the singular |
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| language of taste and refinement; appropriate for formal situations |
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| the repetition of similar vowel sounds in closely associated words |
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| repetition of similar consonant sounds in closely associated words |
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| repetition of sounds at the beginning of closely associated words |
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| words whose pronunciation suggest their meaning |
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