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| Designating qualities or characteristics apart from specific objects or events, not concrete |
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| Narrative in which charater, action, and sometimes setting represents abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of the story |
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| Repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or anyvowel sounds |
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| brief reference to a person,event, or place, or peice of art |
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| Process of reasoning that assumes if two subjects share a number of specific observable qualities then they may be expected to share qualities that have no been observed |
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| Deviies of repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines,clauses, or sentences |
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| inversion of the usual,normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence |
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| Word to which a pronoun refers |
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| Anticipating Audience Response |
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| Rhetorical technique used to convince an audience is that of anticipating and stating the arguments that one's opponent is likely to give and then answering these arguments even before the opponent has a chance to voice them |
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| Figure of speech characterized by strong contrasing words, clauses,sentences, or ideas |
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| Concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words |
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| Figure of speech in which someone,some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present |
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| Author's attitude,closely linked with tone of piece |
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| Writing that urges peopole to action or promotes change |
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| Techniques a writer uses to create and reveal fictional personalities in a work of literature by describing the character's appearance, actions, thoughts, and feelings |
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