Terminology

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Assonance

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a figure of speech in which the same accented vowel sound is repeated through secreal words in close succession. "breeze, breath"

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Chiasmus

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inversion of the second part of a parallel structure
"each throat was parched, and glazed each eye"

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Sardonic

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scornful or mocking tone, cynical

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Esoteric

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understood only by the intellectually elite

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Dogmatic

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tone characterised by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproven principles

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Idealism

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envisioning things in ideal form, idealised treatment of a sudden intuitive realization

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Pragmatic

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concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical

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Persona

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a voice or character representing the speaker in a literary work; the characters in a dramatic or literary work.

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Periodic Sentence

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a sentence so constructed that the thought may not be completed until the end.
"running and stumbling all the way across campus, I arrived to class late"

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Loose Sentence

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a sentence so constructed that thought that may be completed well before the end

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Ellipsis

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a rhetorical device used for the sake of increased vividness and energy in which a word or words are omitted necessary to the complete construction of a sentnce but not required for understanding of it.
"who steals my purse, steals trash"

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Jejune

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lacking in maturity, childish, dull

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Disunity

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the lack of cohesiveness in a literary work

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Anaphora

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the repition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive versus, clauses, or paragraphs.
"I have a dream.."

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Hyperbole

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a figure of speech using gross or absurd exaggeration for poetic or imaginative effect
"I feel like a whale"

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech using for epigrammatic effect a contradictory or incongruous combination of terms
"scottish korean" "starburst" "living dead"

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Apostrophe

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a figure of speech in which the absent or dead are addressed as if present, or an inanimate thing is though alive.
"O death, where is thy sting?"

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Anachronism

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when an author makes a reference in a peice of literature to any person, thing, or event which is incongrous with the historical time of the peice of work.
"stricking clock in Julius Caesar"

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Synecdoche

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a figure or speech in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for the part, the name of a material for the thing, the species for the genus
(100 rifles for 100 men with riffles)

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Flashback

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a passage in a play or story which breaks the chronological sequence of the story to deal with an earlier event

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Parallelism

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the used of parallel syntactic constructions

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Figurative

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making use of any figure or speech

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Antecedent

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the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
-> John ate his grits.

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Syllogism

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the regular, logical form of deduction; consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
(a = b, b = c, then a = c)

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Ad Hominem

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appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason
"I need you to do this for me"

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Syntax

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Word Order