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| The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. |
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| refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. (formal/informal, ornate/plain) |
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| works which have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. |
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| the opposite of anaphors, repetition at the end of successive clauses. “They saw no evil, they spoke no evil, and they heard no evil.” |
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euphemisms are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
("earthly remains" rather than "corpse") |
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| one of the for chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and narration. The purpose of exposition is to explain something. |
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| A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. |
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Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant
to be imaginative and vivid. |
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| A device used to produce figurative language. Figures of speech include apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement. |
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