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| Logical fallacy attacking the person instead than the argument. (AKA Mudslinging) |
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| Repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
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| Makes brief reference to an historical or literary figure, event, or object. |
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| Something out of its place in time or history. |
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| Comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, to explain/clarify an unfamiliar/difficult concept through a familiar object. |
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| SHort narrative to prove a point in an argument, speech, or essay |
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| Figure of speech in which a thought is balanced with a contrasting thought in a parallel arrangements of words and phrases. ("He promised wealth and provided poverty") |
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| Brief statement that expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation. (Poor Richard's Almanac "Drive they business; let it not drive thee") |
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| Refers to the noble qualities of humans and nature as apposed to the savage and destructive forces. |
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| Addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present. Often, god, ghost, or some supernatural thing (e.i. death, night, fate) |
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| A larger-than-life presence, godlike paragon worthy of respect and reverence. |
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| Anything used to win over someone in an argument. (Logical appeal, celebrity appeal, emotional appeal, etc) |
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| Universal symbols that evoke deep and unconscious responses in all cultures. |
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| A statement delivered by an actor in such a way that the other characters on stage are presumed not to have heard it. |
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| Repetition of a vowel sound. |
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| Omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words and phrases (See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.) |
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| Unintentional anticlimax. Shift from the sublime to the ridiculous, result from the overly elevated language. |
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| Elevated Language, often pompous and overdone. |
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| Combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds that create an effect of discordance. |
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| Aristotle's word for pity and fear an audience feels at the downfall of a hero. |
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| Inverted parallelism, reversal of the order of corresponding words or phrases in successive clauses, parallel in syntax. |
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| Informal, not always grammatically correct expressions. |
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| SOmething of humor that interrupts a rather serious, tragic scene. |
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| Extended metaphor, 2 unlikely things compared in several different ways. |
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| Observable/physical; using places, things, and people instead of ideas. |
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| Emotional implications that a word my carry. |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line. |
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| Specific, exact meaning of a word. (Dictionary Meaning) |
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| Overly instructive, preachy, sermonizing. |
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| Pertaining to the base side of man.Of an ecstatic, orgiastic, or irrational nature; frenzied or undisciplined. |
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| Alter-ego. Two sides of a personality. |
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