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24 Cards in this Set
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Style
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The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selction and arrangement of words and figures of speech
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Tone
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The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience
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Diction
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Word choice
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Syntax
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Sentence structure
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Trope
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Artful diction; the use of language in a non-literal way also called a figure of speech
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as through it were something else, thus making it an implicit comparison
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Simile
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A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things
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Personification
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Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis
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Scheme
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A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effort
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making it an implicit comparison
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Simile
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A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things
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Personification
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Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis
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Scheme
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A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effort
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Parallelisms
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the repetition of similar gramatical or syntactical patterns
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Juxtapositions
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Placement of two things side by side for emphasis
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Antithesis
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Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas
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Periodic
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A sentence that builds towards and ends with the main clause
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Cumulative
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An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail
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Annotation
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explanatory or critical notes added to a text
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Imagery
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Vivid use of language that evokes a readers sense
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Oxymoron
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A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms
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Zeugma
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a construction in which one word, usually a verb, modifies or governs - often in different sometimes incongruent ways - 2 or more words in a sentence
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