Aplac Toolbox

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Parallelism

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Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

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Isocolon

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Scheme of parallel structure which occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length.

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Antithesis

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The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of the natural or usual word order.

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Parenthesis

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Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence.

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Apposition

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Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first.

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Ellipsis

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Deliberate omission of a word or words which are readily implied by the context.

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Asyndeton

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Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses.

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Polysyndeton

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Deliberate use of many conjunctions.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of intial or medical consonants in two or more adjacent words.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses.

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Epistrophe

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Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of successive clauses.

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Epanalepsis

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Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause.

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

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Climax

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Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance.

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

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Chiasmus

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Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clause.

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in stressed syllables of adjacent words

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Polyptoton

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Repetition of words derived from the same root.

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Metaphor

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Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature.

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Simile

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Explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature.

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Synecdoche

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Figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole.

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Metonymy

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Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant,

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Antanaclasis

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Repetition of a word in two different senses.

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Paronamasia

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Use of words alike in sound but different in meaning.

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Syllepsis

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Use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs.

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Anthimeria

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The substitution of one part of speech for another.

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Periphrasis (Autonomasia)

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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 the name.

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Personification (Prosopoeia)

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Investing abstraction for inanimate objects.

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Hyperbole

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The use of exaggeration terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

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Litotes

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Deliberate use of understatement.

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Rhetorical Question

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Asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely.

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Irony

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Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word.

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words whose sounds echoes the sense.

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Oxymoron

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The yoking of the two terms which are ordinarily contradictory.

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Paradox

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An apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth.

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Apostrophe

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An exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. In dramatic works and poetry written in or translated into English, such a figure of speech is often introduced by the exclamation "O".

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Neologism

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A newly coined word that the author uses for added meaning.

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Clause

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A group of words containing a subject and a predicate, and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.

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Periodic Sentence

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A sentence that places a modifying clause at the beginning and holds the main idea until the end.

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Loose Sentence

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A sentence that completes its main statement and then adds subordinate details.

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Active Voice

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The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action of causing the happening denoted by the verb.

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Passive Voice

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The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb.

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Simple Sentence

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A sentence that contains one main clause.

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Complex Sentence

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A sentence consisting of one main clause, in which are embedded one or more subordinate clauses.

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Compound Sentence

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A sentence consisting of two or more main clauses.

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Compound Complex Sentence

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A compound sentence in which at least one of the main clauses contains one or more subordinate clause.

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Declarative Sentence

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A term for the grammatical MOOD through which statements are made, in contrast with IMPERATIVE, INTERROGATIVE, AND EXCLAMATIVE. Although DECLARATIVE is often used interchangeably with STATEMENT, it is useful as a means of distinguishing the syntactic form of a sentence from its function; for example, the sentence YOU WILL DO AS I SAY is in declarative form, but functions as a command; the sentence YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TELL ME? is declarative form, but in intent and intonation is a question.

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Imperative Sentence

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The mood of the verb used to express commands ('Go Away'), requests (Please SIT down'), warnings ('LOOK out'), offers ('HAVE another piece'), and entreaties ('HELP me').

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Interrogative Sentence

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The grammatical structure through which questions are asked.

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Exclamatory Sentence

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A sentence that conveys a strong emotion.

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Denotation

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The literal meaning of a word.

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Connotation

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A meaning suggested beyond the literal meaning or a word.

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Juxtaposition

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Placement of words, sentences, characters, or ideas close together for contrasting effect.

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Tone

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The attitude a writer brings toward his subject as shown by word choice and sentence structure.