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- 3. noun: the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.
- 7. noun: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.
- 8. noun: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.
- 10. noun: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss).
- 11. noun: a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable").
- 12. noun: 1. the way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses).
- 14. noun: a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion : feeling.
- 15. noun: In rhetoric and literary studies, the distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or narrator.
- 16. noun: the repeating of a word or phrase. It is a common rhetorical device used to add emphasis and stress in writing and speech.
- 17. noun: a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule.
- 18. noun: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.
- 21. noun: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses).
- 23. noun: a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being.
- 24. noun: a statement that represents something as smaller or less intense, or less important than it really is : a statement that understates something.
- 25. noun: A periodic sentence has the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. It can also create suspense or interest for the reader.
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- 1. noun: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness).
- 2. noun: attribution of personal qualities especially : representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form.
- 4. noun: one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.
- 5. noun: any of a small set of words (such as I, she, he, you, it, we, or they) in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context.
- 6. noun: something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance.
- 9. noun: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one (as in "opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy").
- 13. noun: Point of view (POV) is what the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective).
- 14. noun: a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (such as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown").
- 19. noun: something that is affirmed or denied of the subject in a proposition in logic.
- 20. verb: to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous.
- 21. noun: a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society), the species for the genus (such as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (such as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as boards for stage).
- 22. noun: style or manner of expression in speaking or writing.