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26 Cards in this Set
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style |
the distinctive quality or writing and arrangement of words and figures of speech |
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tone |
the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience |
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colloquialisms |
informal or conversational use of language |
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diction |
choice of words |
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syntax |
arrangement of words |
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active voice |
ex. Maria mailed the letter |
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passive voice |
ex. The letter was mailed by Maria
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trope |
artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called figure of speech |
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metaphor |
a trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making a comparison |
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simile |
comparison using "like" or "as" |
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personification |
giving inanimate objects human qualities |
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hyperbole |
exaggeration |
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scheme |
artful syntax |
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parallelism |
the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns |
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juxtaposition |
placement and alignment of 2 things side by side to emphasize comparison |
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antithesis |
opposition of ideas or words in a balanced/parallel construction |
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paradox |
contradictory statement |
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understatement |
a writer deliberately makes a situation less than it is |
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anaphora |
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines |
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oxymoron |
paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict each other |
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rhetorical question |
question posed for rhetorical effect |
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cumulative sentence |
completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on |
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hortative sentence |
exhorts, advises, calls to action |
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periodic sentence |
main clause is withheld until the end |
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alliteration |
repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence |
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inversion |
inverted order of words in a sentence |
