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- Allusion - "She arrived in the classic Audrey Hepburn mod dress"
- A reference to something well-known historical or literal
- Anadiplosis - "I am sam, sam am I."
- Repetition of a word at the end of a clause and at the start of the next clause
- Aphorism - "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
- A short terse giving advice or wisdom.
- Asyndeton - "He came, he saw, he conquered."
- A clause without conjunctions
- Chiasmus - "She sang a beautiful song, a beautiful song sang she."
- Reverse in parallelism
- Connotation - "What a pig!"
- Something implied not literal
- Metonymy - A "bottle" for a drink
- A concrete word representing an abstract idea
- Motif - It was the usual "just believe in yourself" theme.
- A recurring theme
- Paradox - "I always lie"
- A riddle or mystery. Statement that contradicts itself.
- Personification - "The tulips and daisies danced about the garden"
- To give an animate ovject a human characterisitic
- Propaganda - Obama is a terrorist
- Information or ideas spread to promoto or harm a person group or idea
- In Media Res, "A mystery book is started off in the middle of a crime scene."
- To start a story in the middle of the action
- Satire - SNL, Jon Stewart
- Irony, sarcasm, ridicule used to mock someone, something.
- Subordinate - He stared at the clock, waiting for the phone to ring."
- A clause that cannot stand on its own.
- Onomatopoeia - "cuckoo" "boom"
- The use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical effect
- Oxymoron - "cruel kindness" "instant classic"
- Clause that's self-contradictory
- Parallelism - "The sun rises. The sun sets."
- Similar clauses placed side by side.
- Pathos - The death of the young girl caused great suffering
- Writing style that evokes emotion
- Simile - "White as snow"
- Two unlike things are explicitly compared
- Synecdoche - "The police knocked down my door"
- Metaphor where an inclusive term stands for something included
- Didactic - "His speech was boring and didactic"
- Intended to instruct morally and excessively to teach something
- Ethos - "I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best."
- Appeal through credibility, moral element
- Fallacy- That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy
- A deceptive, misleading false notion
- Figurative Language - "White as snow"
- Description through imagery and comparison.
- Hyperbole - "This book weighs a ton!"
- extreme exaggeration or overstatement
- Irony - "That poncho is so fashionable!"
- The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
- Logos - The man should be punished for murder
- Appeal through logic and reason
- Metaphor
- A comparison NOT using like or as