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| substitution of agreeables terms for offensive ones |
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| seeks to explain via analysis, definition, comparison |
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| language uses words outside their literal meaning suggesting comparisons |
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| language appealing to the senses |
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| words that express opposite of literal meaning, unexpected |
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| specialized language in a particular field |
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| understatement, affirmation by stating the negative of its opposite |
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| attach ahainst a person instead of the issue |
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| introducing irrelevant evidence to support a claim |
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| use of irrelevant point to divert attention |
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| failure to provide evidence showing that one event will lead to a chain of events |
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| an associated object is substituted for the name of the intended word |
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| overall atmosphere of a written work |
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| recurrent images, words, phrases, ... tending to unify a work of writing |
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| tells what events/experiences happened |
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| words which imitate sounds |
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| seems to be a contradiction yet shows a truth |
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| arrangement of words, phrases,...so that they coordinate in grammar, structure, pattern |
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| is not grammatically complete until the every end |
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| attributes human traits to nonhuman objects |
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| angle from which a story is told |
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| repeats conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect |
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| repeats words, phrases, ... to emphasize |
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