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| A part of speech that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverbs usually answer such questions as How, Where? When? or To what degree? |
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| The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs. |
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| a short often autobiographical short story to show or provide an example |
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| opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. |
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| a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present. |
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| balanced in structure and idea |
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| wo corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a) |
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| Hint to something that is going to happen in the future |
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a kind of understatement, where the speaker or writer uses a negative of a word ironically, to mean the opposite.
Ex: She's not the friendliest person I know |
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| A proverb, a short, pithy statement or aphorism believed to contain wisdom or insight into human nature. |
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| conclusin that doesn't make sense |
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| ommmision of a word but the word is still implied |
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| makes sense before the end |
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| A story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, moral lesson, psychological reality, or general truth |
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| In its rhetorical sense, pathos is a writer or speaker's attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience |
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| Comparing something using like or as |
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| using a conjunction alot like "and" |
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Applying a word to stand for two different things.
Ex. "She broke his heart and his toe." |
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an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part.
Ex. "The white house spoke today."
whitehouse meaning president not the actual building |
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taking one type of sensory input (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) and combining it with another separate sense in an impossible way
Ex."She's wearing a loud shirt! |
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