Tone, Logical Fallacies, Schemes, and Tropes
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- Easily understood; intelligible
- lucid
- Fully and clearly expressed; leaving nothing implied
- explicit
- Clearness of thought or style; lucidity
- clarity
- expressing much in few words; clear and succinct
- conciseness
- short in time, duration, length, or extent
- brief
- brief and to the point; effectively concise
- terse
- using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise
- laconic
- characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse
- succinct
- terse and energetic in expression; pithy
- sententious
- strong feeling; enthusiasm or intensity
- vigor
- effected against resistance through the use of force
- forcible
- bitingly sarcastic
- mordant
- penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
- incisive
- described in vivid detail
- graphic
- to arouse the passions of
- impassioned
- distinct; clear-cut, effective, forceful
- trenchant
- an instance of being imperfectly known or difficult to understand
- obscurity
- not clearly understood or expressed
- obscure
- not clearly expressed; inexplicit
- vague
- intricate; complex
- involuted
- to spread about or scatter; disseminate
- diffuseness
- using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy
- verbose
- tediously prolonged; wordy
- prolix
- to speak or write at leanth and with many digressions
- rambling
- to draw out or lenthgen in time; prolong
- protracted
- tending to use, using, or expressed in more words than are necessary to convey meaning
- wordy
- intricate; complicated
- convoluted
- lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness; inadequate
- feebleness
- lacking in imagination and spirit; dull
- prosaic
- not diversified
- unvaried
- lacking in substance or completeness; incomplete
- sketchy
- lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing
- weak
- immature; childish
- puerile
- low or lower in quality, value
- inferior
- inadequate; incompetent
- ineffective
- obvious to the mind; evident, not elaborate, straightfowrward
- plainness
- stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain
- unvarnished
- extremely plain in substance; harsh or strict
- severe
- having no remarkable features, characteristics, or traits; ordinary
- commonplace
- deficient in originality or creativity
- unimaginative
- occuring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals,; not thick or dense
- sparse
- grace of style
- elegance
- to remove flaws from; perfect or complete
- polished
- simple and harmonious; elegant
- classic
- showing grace of movement, form, or proportion
- graceful
- of or exhibiting symmetry
- symmetrical
- exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or stlye
- felicitous
- agreement
- conformity
- commonly encountered; usual
- ordinary
- boring
- bromidic
- serving as an illustration; typical, commendable
- exemplary
- decoration
- embellishment
- flashy, showy, or florid in style or manner
- ornate
- grandiloquent expressions
- flowery
- complex in style or language
- turgid
- grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing
- bombastic
- very ornate; flowery
- florid
- lack of refinement or polish
- inelegance
- having or exhibiting no sense of propriety or decency
- graceless
- crudely indecent
- vulgar
- hard work; a specific task
- labored
- lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull
- ponderous
- lacking flavor; insipid
- tasteless
- dissimilar
- unconformity
- being the only one of a kind; unique
- singular
- lacking organization; formless
- amorphous
- strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
- bizarre
- highly exceptional; remarkable
- extraordinary
- any arful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence
- scheme
- any artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed
- trope
- repetiton of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses
- anaphora
- parallelism used to juxtapose words, phrases, or clauses that contrast
- antithesis
- omission of conjunctions between related clauses
- asyndeton
- repetition of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses
- epistrophe
- repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
- anadiplosis