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what is an alliteration?
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The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
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Peter Piper picked and pack of pickeled peppers
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What is an allusion ?
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A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional
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"I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."
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What is an anaphora ?
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A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses
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"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."
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What is an antimetabole ?
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A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A).
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"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
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What is an antithesis ?
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Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
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We shall support any friend , oppose any foe
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Arachaic Diction
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old fashioned or outdated choice of words
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Belifes for which our forebears fought
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What is an Asyndeton ?
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A writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
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"They dove, splashed, floated, splashed, swam, snorted."
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What is a Cummlative sentence ?
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A sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on
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I write this at a wide desk in a pine shed as I always do these recent years, in this life I pray will last, while the summer sun closes the sky to Orion and to all the other winter stars over my roof."
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What is a hortative sentence ?
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sentence that exhorts advises or calls to action
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let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us
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Imperative sentence
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A sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or command. (Compare with sentences that make a statement, ask a question, or express an exclamation.)
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it."
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what is an inversion ?
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Inverted order of words in a sentence.
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United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperatice ventuers. Divided ther is little we can do
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Juxtapostition
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placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisions or contrast
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"What a Wonder full World" while playing scenes of war and violence.
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metaphor
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A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
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"The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."
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metonymy
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using a single feature to represent the whole
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in your hands my fellow citizens more than mine will rest the final success or faliure of our course
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oxymoron
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Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another
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bittersweet
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parralelism
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Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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The more we do, the more we can do."/ The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig."
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Periodic sentence
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long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word
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"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."
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personification
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describing inanimate objects with the quality of life
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the sun glowed with pride
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rhetorical question
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Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather for the purpose of getting an answer
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Aren't you glad you use Dial?
Don't you wish everybody did?" |
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zeugma
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Use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.
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You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
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