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26 Cards in this Set
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Style |
the distinctive quality of writing and arrangement of words and figures of speech |
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Tone |
the speakers 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 |
Marla mailed the letter |
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Passive voice |
The letter was mailed by Martha |
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Trope |
artful diction, the use of language in a nonliteral way |
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Metaphor |
one thing is spoken as though it is something else |
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Simile |
uses like or as to compare two things |
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Personification |
assigning lifelike qualities to inanimate objects |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration |
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Scheme |
artful syntax |
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Parallelism |
the repetition of similar grammatical patterns |
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Juxtaposition |
placement and alignment of two things side by side to emphasize comparisons |
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Antithesis |
opposition of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction |
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Paradox |
a 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 |
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Oxymoron |
paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another |
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Rhetorical question |
a question posed for rhetoric effect |
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Cumulative sentence |
sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of a sentence |
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Hortative sentence |
sentence that 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 |
