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sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action
example: Just try it at least once! |
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is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.
example: The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table |
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literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order
example: Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds |
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ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
example: you won't be sorry |
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sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action
example: Just try it at least once! |
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is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.
example: The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table |
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literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order
example:Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You. |
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ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
example: you won't be sorry |
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a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses
example: John and his license expired last week |
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“When is comes to murder, you can’t respect grief. Or privacy. Or personal feelings” (85)
repetition of or in order to put emphasis on the murder consequences on the town |
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| the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
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| the saying of the same thing twice in different word |
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| is a rhetorical term for the frequent repetition of a phrase or question |
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| the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences |
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| the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
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