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| comparison using like, as, if |
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| implied comparison of seemingly unsimilar things |
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| contrast between what is said and what is meant |
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| a part of something used to refer to a whole |
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| figure of speech where one name is substituted for another closely related |
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| a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent an imaginary person or personified abstraction |
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| more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasent words or concepts |
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| the way an author chooses to word himself |
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| repetition of group of words at the beginning of a sucessive clauses |
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| an argument appealing to emotion rather than argument |
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| word/phrase/clause referred to by a pronoun |
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| statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth |
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| gramatical unit that combines subject and verb |
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| primary aim of instructing/teaching |
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| serious talk involving moral or spiritual advice |
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| dissimilar ideas next to eachother for comparison |
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| adjective that describes things in an overly scholarly way |
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| subject compliment (tall, dark, handsome) |
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| subject compliment (man of integrity) |
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| formal logic with major and minor premises for sound conclusion |
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| indirect affirmation by denying opposite |
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| referred to in terms less important than is |
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