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a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of
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the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely
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| a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference. |
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| the regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. |
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| the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure or ideas. |
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| a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. |
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| an address or invocation to something inanimate. |
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| Appeals to......authority,emotion,or logic |
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| rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason. |
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| the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate. |
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| a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series , usually producing more rapid prose. |
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| the sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters,events, or theme. |
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| an argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evading or ignoring the real question. |
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| that which has been accepted as authentic, such as in canon law, or the "Canon According to the Theories of Einstein." |
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| a figure of speech and generally wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel cause is reversed in the second. |
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| in argumentation, an assertion of something as fact |
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| a term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area. |
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| a mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared, contrasted, or both. |
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| a comparison two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem. |
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| the implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase, |
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| the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels, such as in pitter-patter, splish-splash, and click-clack |
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| an accepted manner, model, or tradition, for insurance, Aristotle's conventions of tragedy. |
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| an assessment or analysis of something, such as a passage of writing, for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre. |
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| Deductive reasoning (deduction) |
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| the method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principals; movement from the general to the specific, in contrast to inductive reasoning(induction) |
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| the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group. |
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| the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect. |
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| writing or speech is didactic when it has an instructive purpose or lesson. |
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| a poem or prose work that laments, or meditates upon the death of, a person or persons. |
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| in rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences. |
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| writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone. |
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| in rhetoric, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer,or narrator. |
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| a speech or written passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of a deceased person. |
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| an indirect, kinder, or less harsh or hurtful way of expressing unpleasant information. |
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| writing that explains its own meaning purpose. |
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| a series of comparisons within a piece of writing |
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| consist of personification, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, oxymoron, litote, and others. |
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| an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration. |
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| a type or class of literature, such as epic, narrative, poetry, biography, history. |
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| a sermon, but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life. |
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| overstatement characterized by exaggerated language, usually to make a point or draw attention. |
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| broadly defined, any sensory detail of evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe and object. |
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| Inductive Reasoning(induction) |
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| the method of reasoning or argument in which general statements and conclusions are drawn from specific principals: movement from the specific to the general. |
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| a conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts, observations, or some other specific data. |
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| the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. |
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| what the author/narrator says is actually the opposite of what is meant. |
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| when events end up the opposite of what is expected. |
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| in drama and fiction, facts or situations are known to the reader or audience but not to the characters. |
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| parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length. |
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| specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. |
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| the location of one thing adjacent to or juxtaposed with another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose. |
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| a figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement; for instance, the understated "not bad" as a comment about something especially well done. |
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| a long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases. |
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| one thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy. |
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| a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something. |
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| the way in which information is presented in written or spoken form. |
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| a feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view. |
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| a mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort. |
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| a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes. |
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| a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements. |
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| a statement that seems contradictory but is probably true. |
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| the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. |
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| the element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. |
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| a long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end. |
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| treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities. |
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| the relation in which a narrator/author stands to a subject of discourse. |
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| the ordinary form of written language without metrical structure, in contrast to verse and poetry. |
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| attempting to describe nature and life with idealization and with attention to detail. |
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| an argument technique wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and countered. |
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| a question that is asked simply for the sake of stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered. |
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| a form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually critical. |
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| a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure. |
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| a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the word like or as to draw the connection. |
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| the manner in which a writer combines and arranges words, shapes, and utilizes syntax and structure. |
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| use of a person, place, thing, event, or pattern that figuratively represents or "stands for" something else. |
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| a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole. |
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| the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. |
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| the central or dominant idea or focus of a work. |
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| the attitude the narrator/writer takes toward a subject and theme. |
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| the acknowledged or unacknowledged source of words of the story. |
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| a grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated. |
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