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| is an imaginative and picturesqe comparison between objects of diffrent classes |
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| is an implied comparison. it applies to a person or thing the characteristic of another to suggest a likeness between them |
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| attributes personal qualities or attributes to inanimate objects or abstract ideas to make writing more vivid |
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| is an adress in an exclamatory tone to an imaginary or absent person, or to an inanimate object as ig it were alaive, or to an abstact idea. |
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| the use of a noun or a name in place of another more commonly used and literal word associated with it. |
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| the use of a part for a whole or an individual for a class, or the reverse of theese |
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| is the obvious exaggeration for the sake of producing a strong effect |
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| is an understanding in the form of denial instead of the opposite affirmative in order to avoid censure or to increase the effect. |
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| is the omission of the connectives between all members of a series of words, phrases, or clauses |
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| is the use of more conjunctions than the sese requires |
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| is the omission from the sentence of some word or words necessaary for the sense where the meaning is implied in the context. |
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| the arrangement of words in unusual order, such as the seperation of words that belong together |
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| is the reversing of the natural or logical of the sense of 2 words or phrases |
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| is likeness in structure meaning or phraseology |
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| the expression of a single thought by the use of two nouns joined by a conjunction, rather than by the use of a noun in the genative case or an adjective to modify one of the two nouns |
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| is the use of a verb or an adjective with two or more words when the verb or adjective only apllies to one. |
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| the use of superflos words to express an idea |
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| is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of consecutive words, or of words near one another. |
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| Is the repetition of a word or words at the begininnig of suceesive clauses |
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| is the close recurrance of the same or similar vowel sounds at the begininng middle or ends of a sentence |
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| is the saying if somthing more than once to lend additional force and produce sustained effect |
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| is an expression of strong or contrast or opposition achieved through the use of balance or parallelism of words or ideas |
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| the arrangement of contrasted words in inverse or crisscross order |
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| is the use of words of opposite meaning in the same phrase. |
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| the harmonious movement of words and phrases, marked by stress of voice. |
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| is a form of repetition that shows itself in the use of the same closing syllables at the end of a parallel clause |
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| the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses with increasing emphasis or force |
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| the rversal of climax. the result is intended to be ludicrous |
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| is the pretence of omitting somthing for the puporse of adding attetion to it |
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| is an emphatic assertion in the interrogative form for rhetorical effect |
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