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| A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning |
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| a cutting and often ironic remark; the use of sarcasms in speech or writing |
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| a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement market by emphasis on the imagination and emotions |
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| used solely for rhetorical effect |
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| the art fo speaking or writing effectively, skill in the effective use fo speech, insincere or pretentious language |
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| description or direction written or printed in a play |
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| a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme |
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| a brief form for stating an argument from the general to the particular that consists of two statements and a conclusion that must be true if these two statements are true |
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| a proposition to be provecy or advanced without proof: hypothesis |
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| a passing from one state, stage, place, or subject to another |
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| to represent as less than is the case: to state with restraint epecially for greater effect |
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| distinction of form or a system of inflections of a verb to indicate the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses |
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| to give a particular intonation or inflection to |
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| disproof of a propostion by showing that it contradicts accepted propostions when carried to its logical conclusion |
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| choice of words especially as the correctness, clearness, or effectiveness |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special |
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