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| means "to or against man." Argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason. |
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| using charcter/story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction on top of literal meaning. |
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| opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. |
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| terse statement of general truth or moral principle. |
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| figure of speech addressing an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. |
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| rhetorical mode of proving the validity of a point of view or idea. |
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| when there are elevated circumstances and then something commonplace is introduced. |
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| a work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (ie, with mock dignity). burlesque concentrates on derisive imitation, usually in exaggerated terms. |
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| when the second of two parallel clauses is reversed. "Other men live to eat; I eat to live." |
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| use of vernacular language that is meant to be understood by the common person |
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| extended metaphor or surprising analogy between dissimilar objects. |
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| the emotional impact a word has on the reader |
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| rhetorical mode aimed at recreating or inventing a person, place event or action. |
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| often used to describe the tone of something meant to inform or teach (neutral connotation) |
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| the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one. |
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| rhetorical mode of explaining or analyzing. |
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| a type of comedy characterized by broad humor, outlandish incidents, and often vulgar subject matter. |
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| a character in a work of literature whose physical or psychological qualities contrast strongly with and therefore highlight, the corresponding qualities of another extreme exaggeration. |
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| sentence with noun and verb that can stand on its own |
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| emotionally violent, verbal denunciation |
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| interconnecting two things for the purpose of comparing/contrasting |
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| understatement using negative phrases |
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| using something related to your subject to represent it. |
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| treating a frivolous or minor subject seriously, especially by using the machinery and devices of the epic (invocations, descriptions of armor, battles) |
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| rhetorical mode aimed at telling a story or narrating an event or series of events |
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| overly concerned with the feelings of others and willing to put aside own feelings/beliefs |
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| statement that appears self-contradictory but contains truth |
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| a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way |
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| words or tone with an overly scholarly tone. |
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| principles governing art of writing effectively |
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| real historical events and people written about, as though fictitious |
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| a technique or method in modern narrative fiction which attempts to convey the characters' rambling thoughts. |
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| has subject and verb but cannot stand on its own |
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| deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises. |
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| when one uses a part to represent the whole |
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| author's attitude towards his or her material. |
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| type of work, the writer mocks something serious by belittling it. |
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| describing something as less than it is. |
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| how well characters and events portray our perception of how things are (their amount of reality) |
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| hateful, extremely critical language. |
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