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| appeals to emotion rather than reason |
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| symbolically representing an abstraction in addition to literal meaning (hope, freedom, liberty) |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| reference to commonly known event, myth, nook, place, or work of art |
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| multiple meanings, overall vagueness |
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| comparison between two different things, associates unfamiliar with familiar |
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| word or clause referred to by pronoun |
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| statement displaying moral principle, folk proverb |
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| directly addresses an absent abstract being |
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| emotional mood created by literary work |
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| grammatical unit with subject and verb |
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| expresses a complete thought |
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| cannot stand alone, must be accompanied by an independent clause |
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| fanciful expression usually in extended metaphor, clever |
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| strict literal dictionary definition |
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| word choice, creates style |
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| agreeable less offensive replacements for more brash words |
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| emphasizes senses to paint a picture of a concept |
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| series of examples with logical proof |
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| juxtaposition of two things |
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| division of a group of things |
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| establish common ground, identify areas of conflict |
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| traces events and their consequences |
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| repetition of word or phrase at beginning of successive phrases |
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| repetition of word sin reverse order |
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| opposition of words in parallel construction |
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| omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases |
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| completes main idea at the beginning of the sentence and adds on |
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| exhorts advises and calls to attention |
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| used to command implore, entreat |
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| main clause withheld until the end of the sentence |
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| not subject verb predicate |
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| comparison of two things to emphasize differences and similarities |
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| one thing is to the other |
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| using a single feature to represent whole (suits for business executives) |
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| paradoxical juxtaposition (jumbo shrimp) |
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| similarity in construction |
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| attribution of human traits to inanimate objects |
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| question used for rhetorical effect rather than answer |
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| use of 2 different words in grammatically similar way but producing different often incongruous meanings (john and his license expired last month) |
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