English Vocabulary

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Pun

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Play on words

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Detective alligator in a vest : investigator

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Metaphor

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Implied comparison

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He's a dolphin

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Simile

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Comparison with like or as

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She's as pretty as a goddess

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Conceit

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Extended metaphor

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Broken heart like damaged teapot

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Apostrophe

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Addressing absent or inanimate as if it were present

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Rain rain go away

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to objects

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The book asked me to read it

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Pathetic fallacy

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Human qualities to force of nature

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The wind screamed

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Zoomorphism

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Animal attributes to humans and basically anything

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She barked

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Animism

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Soul to plants and objects

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Mother Willow/Nature

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Antropomorphism

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Human traits to non humans

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The dog yelled

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Irony

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Opposite of what's expressed

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Vegan who eats pizza

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Symbol

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Item representing something

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White dove for peace

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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I could eat a horse

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Litotes

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Understatement

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I almost passed. I got a 24 :)

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Synechdoche

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Part substituted for whole

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The strings played awesomely in orchestra

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Metonymy

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Designation of something w something closely associated w it

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The white house issued a statement

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory terms together

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Bittersweet

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Paradox

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Contradictory terms w some truth

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Next statement true. Last statement false.

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Rhetorical question

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Question not meant to be answered

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Why are u so stupid

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Hypophora

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Asking and answering own question

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What am I gonna do? I'll tell u what I'm gonna do

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Connotation

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Implied meaning

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Denotation

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Dictionary meaning

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Diction

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Author word choice

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Syntax

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How author joins words n phrases

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Parallelism

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Similar ideas in similar grammatical structures

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He tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable

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Chiasmus

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First clause reversed in second

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Are u pretty bc I love u or do I love u bc u pretty

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Climax

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Ideas in least to most important

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I lost my pencil, my phone, and my dog

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Juxtaposition

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Unassociated ideas next to each other

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Birth at the funeral

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Antithesis

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Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas

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Art is long; life is short

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Anastrophe

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Word order reversed or rearranged

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Finish this I must

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Apposition

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Placing a noun next to another noun that explains it

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Pollution, the city's major problem, is bad

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Parenthesis

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Inserting words not related to sentence

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Pizza (which I love) is stereotypically Italian

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Ellipsis

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Omission of words implied by rest of phrase

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This... Between us is doomed

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Zeugma

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A word is used to govern or modify two or more

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The runner lost the race and the scholarship

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Syllepsis

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A word is understood differently in relation to two or more

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A certain worked would rather press grapes than clothes

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Asyndeton

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Conjunctions are omitted

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I came I saw I conquered

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Enumeratio

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Listing or detailing parts of something

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I love her eyes, hair, nose, cheeks, lips

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Polysyndeton

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Many conjunctions to slow pace

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I lost my lunch and fell and cried and sprained ankle and basically died

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Anadiplosis

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Repeating end word at beginning of next sentence

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Now I'll take u by the hand. Hand I another drink. Drink it if u can

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Polyptoton

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Word repeated in different cases, numbers, genders

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My own hearts heart, and ownest own, farewell

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Anaphora

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Repetition of same words at beginning of successive phrases

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We'll fight on beaches. We'll fight on land. We'll fight at sea. We'll fight in the fields.

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words whose sound reinforces meaning

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Boom crash blam

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Epistrophe

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Repeating same word at end of successive clauses

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I am hungry. You are hungry. She is hungry. He is hungry.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of same consonant sound at beginning of successive words

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Sally sells sea shells by the seashore

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Assonance

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Repeating vowel sounds withing words

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Sleeping weeping ships of Crete

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Cacophony

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Harsh clase sounds w words

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Sturbridge gristwheel ground the flour

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Consonance

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Words at end of verses in which consonants agree

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Must I lay my head on cold drenched ground

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Euphony

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Pleasing effect w nice friendly sounds

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Degged w dew, dappled w dew

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Synesthesia

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Appealing to 2+ senses

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Cool green water

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Epithet

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Tern used to characterize someone or something

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Dwayne the rock Johnson

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Ambiguity

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Multiple meanings of something

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Shane: *at Yang* do u need me to service you

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Satire

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Critical attitude w with and humor to try and improve mankind

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Political cartoons

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Euphemism

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Substitution of word for less harsh one

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Gotta let u go, company is downsizing

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Allusion

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Reference to historical event or character or mythology

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Achilles heel

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Parody

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Imitation of a work tryna ridicule it

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Starving Games

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Epigram

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Saying w nature of a proverb

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Man cannot live by bread alone

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Aphorism

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Statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth

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Keep your friends close

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Sarcasm

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Personal jeering ridicule to hurt someone

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You failed. Great freaking job.

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Caricature

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Drawing exxagerating someone's features

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Mr Bean caricature