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| appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason) |
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| an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor |
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| a poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants, as in “Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?” |
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| a reference that is made indirectly, subtly suggested, or implied |
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| an expression or statement that has more than one meaning |
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| a comparison between two things that are similar in some respects, often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand |
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| a word or phrase that a subsequent word refers back to. |
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| a succinct statement expressing an opinion or a general truth |
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| address to an absent or imaginary person |
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| a prevailing emotional tone or attitude, especially one associated with a specific place or time |
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| A clause usually contains a verb and may or may not be a sentence in its own right. |
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| characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation |
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| An imaginative poetic image or writing that contains such an image, especially a comparison that is extreme or far-fetched |
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| an additional sense or senses associated with or suggested by a word or phrase. |
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| the most specific or literal meaning of a word, as opposed to its figurative senses or connotations |
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| choice of words to fit their context |
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| containing a political or moral message |
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| The phrase “collateral damage” is a euphemism for injury to civilians during a military operation. |
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| a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work |
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| language that displays the imaginative and poetic use of words (e.g., My love is like a red, red rose.) |
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| one of many kinds of word-play, focusing either on sound and word-order (schemes) or on semantics (tropes). A figure of speech usually describes one thing in terms of another. |
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| the types of writing styles typical to a certain genre |
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| one of the categories that artistic works of all kinds can be divided into on the basis of form, style, or subject matter. For example, detective novels are a genre of fiction. |
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| a sermon on a moral or religious topic |
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| the figurative language, especially metaphors and similes, used in poetry, plays, and other literary works |
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| to suggest or lead to something as a conclusion |
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| An abusive expression or language used to attack or blame somebody |
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| a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows |
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| a figure of speech in which an attribute of something is used to stand for the thing itself, such as “laurels” when it stands for “glory” or “brass” when it stands for “military officers” |
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| the part of a literary work that is concerned with telling the story |
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| the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with the thing or action in question, for example, “hiss” and “buzz” |
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| a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect, for example, “wise fool” or “legal murder” |
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| a statement or proposition that contradicts itself |
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| in writing, the deliberate repetition of particular words or sentence structures for effect |
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| a piece of writing or music that deliberately copies another work in a comic or satirical way |
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| marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects |
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| a sentence that begins with a series of dependent clauses describing or giving more information about the main sentence, which comes at the end. |
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| a representation of an abstract quality or notion as a human being |
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| the perspective on events of the narrator or a particular character in a story |
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| Adjectives that complete the meaning of the verb and modify the subject (The biscuit is delicious.) |
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| a noun or pronoun which follows the verb and describes or renames the subject |
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| writing or speech in its normal continuous form, without rhythmic or visual line structure |
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| the principles governing the use of language for effective speaking and writing. |
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| Narrative, Descriptive, Expository, Persuasive/Argumentative |
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| remarks that mean the opposite of what they seem to say and are intended to mock or deride |
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| the use of wit, especially irony, sarcasm, and ridicule, to attack the vices and follies of humankind |
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| The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed |
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| A subject complement is a complement that is used to predicate a description of the subject of a clause. (Ambrose was holy) |
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| dependent clause; can’t stand alone |
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| Reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction. |
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| something that stands for or represents something else, especially an object representing an abstraction |
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| the ordering of and relationship between the words and other structural elements in phrases and sentences. |
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| a subject of a discourse, discussion, piece of writing, or artistic composition |
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| a subject for an essay; a proposition advanced as an argument |
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| a process or period in which something undergoes a change and passes from one state, stage, form, or activity to another |
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| A statement or a way of expressing yourself, that is deliberately less forceful or dramatic than the subject would seem to justify or require |
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| speech or writing that shows an apt, clever, and often humorous association of words |
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