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Allegory |
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
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Alliteration |
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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Allusion |
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference |
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Anaphora |
the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they |
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Antithesis |
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else |
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Aphorism |
a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, “if it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
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Apostrophe |
an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). |
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Appeals to authority, emotion, or logic |
Logos, pathos, and ethos |
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Assonance |
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence,reticence ). |
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Asyndeton |
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. |
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Attitude |
a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior |
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Begging the question |
Begging the Question is a fallacy in which the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true. This sort of "reasoning" typically has the following form. |
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Canon |
a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged |
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Chiasmus |
a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds |
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Claim |
state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof |
