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| repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words. |
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| brief reference to historical/literary figure, event, or object |
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| a comparison of two things, alike in certain aspects. |
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| a short of account of an interesting event. |
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| repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of clauses. |
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| Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. |
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| A short, astute statement of a general truth. |
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| obsolete phrasing, idiom, syntax or spelling. |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllable of adjacent words. |
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| a belief or statement taken for granted without proof. |
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| one’s listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. |
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| the emotional implications attached to a word. |
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| a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. |
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| the literal meaning of a word, independent of its emotional associations. |
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| erotema (rhetorical question) |
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| asking a question for a purpose of asserting or denying something indirectly, rather than for eliciting a response. |
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| use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect |
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| information known to the audience but hidden from the characters. |
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| conveying a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word used. |
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| implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that have something in common |
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| use of words whose sound echoes the sense. |
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| the yoking of two terms that are ordinarily contradictory. |
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| the relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented. |
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| an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains some truth. |
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| similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. |
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| Substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with that name. |
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| Prosopopeia (personification) |
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| investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities. |
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| a play on words where a word can have multiple meanings. |
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| the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of “available means of persuasion.” |
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| patterns of organization to achieve a specific purpose |
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| a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. |
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| an ironic, satiric, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. |
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| an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common (using “like” or “as”). |
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| vernacular speech, not accepted for formal speech-usually used in writing for humor, exaggeration or onomatopoeia effect. |
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