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1) Understatement |
An intentional representation of something as less than it is |
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2) Meiosis |
A form of understatement or "belittling" something; something is referred to in terms less important than it really deserves |
Ex: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet refers to his mortal wound as a "scratch" |
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3) Litotes |
A form of understatement in which a statement is affirmed by negating its opposite |
He is not unfriendly |
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4) Pun |
A play on words that have similar sounds but different meanings |
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5) Double Entendre |
A type of pun or play on words, especially a play on words that has a sexual meaning |
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6) cliché |
An expression that has been used so often it has lost all its power |
Turn over a new leaf |
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7) Dialect |
A distinctive variety of language spoken by members of an identifiable regional group,nation , or social class |
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8) Colloquialism |
An informal expression or slang |
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9) Jargon |
Terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, group , or event |
Words understood by law enforcement, phrases understood by gamers |
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10) Idiom |
A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from it's literal meaning |
It's raining cats and dogs |
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11) malapropism |
A confused, comically inaccurate use of a long word or words |
It was the very pineapple of success |
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12) euphemism |
The use of more polite language to express vulgar or distasteful ideas |
Saying someone "passed away" instead of "died" |
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13) epithet |
An adjective or phrase that describes a prominent feature of a person or thing |
Shoeless Joe Jackson |
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14) aphorism |
A statement of some general principle, expressed in a memorable way by condensing much wisdom into few words |
Nietzsche - "The vanity of others offends our taste only when it offends our vanity" |
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15) apostrophe |
A direct address to an absent or dead person or to an object |
Walt Whiteman's "O Captain, My Captain" was written upon the death of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln could not respond) |
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16) Zeugma |
The use of one word in a sentence to modify two other words in the sentence, typically in two different ways |
Mr.Pickwick took his hat and his leave (sentence uses "took" in two different ways) |
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17) metonymy |
A figure of speech that replaces the name of one things with the name of something else closely associated with it |
The crown carries many responsibilities |
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18) synecdoche |
A figure of speech in which the part of something stands for the whole |
One thousand sailed pursued Paris when he fled with Helen of Troy (Actually, one thousand ships pursued Paris, the sail is just part of the whole ship) |
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19) Conceit |
An extended metaphor that runs throughout a work |
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20) motif |
A situation, incident, idea, image, or character-type that is found in many literary works, folktales, or myths |
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21) archetype |
A symbol, theme, setting, or character-type that recurs in different times and places myth, literature, folklore, dreams, and rituals so frequently to suggest that it represents some essential element of the universal human experience |
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22) synaesthesia |
A blending of different senses |
His shirt was a loud shade of blue |
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23) fable |
A brief tale that conveys a moral lesson, usually by giving speech and manners to animals and inanimate things |
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24) Parable |
A brief tale illustrating some lesson or moral ( a type of allegory) |
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25) Satire |
A mode of writing that exposes the failing of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule or scorn them |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Farm |
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26) Parody |
A mocking imitation of the style of literary work or works, ridiculing exaggerated mimicry |
Saturday Night Live |
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27) caricature |
A picture, description, etc. Ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things |
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28) overstatement |
A type of exaggeration; to state something too strongly |
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29) sarcasm |
A sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark |
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30) wit |
Quick, amusing cleverness |
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31) trope |
A figure of speech |
Using words in senses beyond their literal meaning |
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32) in media res |
Latin: "into the middle of things" when a narrator begins telling a story at some exciting point in the middle of the action |
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33) rhetoric |
The study of effective, persuasive language use, the art of communicating effectively |
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34) rhetorical strategies/ devices/ techniques |
Any strategy used to communicate effectively given the speaker, subject, audience, context, and purpose |
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35) parallelism |
The arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences, or verse lines in a pairing or other sequence suggesting some correspondence between them |
Shakespeare "Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream" |
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36) balanced sentence |
A sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure |
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37) antithesis |
A contrast or opposition of ideas |
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Romeo more" |
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38) anaphora |
Repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of lines, clauses, or sentences |
Churchill: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills..." |
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39) epistrophe |
Repeating the same word or phrase at the end of lines, clauses, or sentences |
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40) antimetabole |
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order |
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us" |
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41) polysyndeton |
Repeated use of conjunctions to link together a succession of words, clauses, or sentences |
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42) asyndeton |
Removing conjunctions between clauses |
I saw, I came, I conquered |
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43) ellipses |
Removing from a sentence a word or words that would be required for complete clarity but which can usually be understood from the context |
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43) ellipses |
Removing from a sentence a word or words that would be required for complete clarity but which can usually be understood from the context |
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44) anastrophe |
An inversion of the normal order of words |
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45) chiasmus |
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed |
Hillary Clinton "In the end, the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; it's whether the president delivers the speeches |
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46) parenthesis |
A qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clauses, or sentence that interrupts a sentence without otherwise affecting it, often indicating in writing by commas, parenthesis, or dashes |
William Smith- you must know him- he is coming tonight |
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47) stream of consciousness |
The continuous flow of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories; representing mental processes in an unpunctuated or disjointed form |
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