APLAC Flashcards
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Ambiguous
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Open to multiple interpretations
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Ambivalent
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Torn, mixed feelings
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Anachronism
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Something belonging to a different time period
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Analogy
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A similarity/comparison between 2 different things or their relationship. Blank to blank as blankety to blankety
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Anastrophe
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Change of normal word order
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Antimetabole
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When a phrase is repeated but in reverse
Fair is foul, foul is fair
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Antonomasia
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Substitution of epithet for proper name. Type of metonymy
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Apocope
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Omission of one or more sounds from the end of a word
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Aposiopesis
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Suddenly breaking off in speech
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Apostrophe
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Addressing someone or something who cannot answer, like a dead loved one or Love
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Apotropaic
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Having power to avert bad luck/evil
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Assonance
Consonnance
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Repetition of vowel sounds
Repetition of similar consonant sounds
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Auxesis
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3 terms in a row, that are growing/diminishing
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Bathos
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Large thing ending with small/insignificant thing. Tone shift
Serious-funny
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Cacemphaton
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Bad words
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Canon
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Law or principle
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Catachresis
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Use of wrong words
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Chronotope
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How literature represents space and time
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Deictic
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Indicates a term that relies on context
Next week
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Deus ex machina
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God from the machine
Devine character, exists to solve problem
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Dialectic
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Art of discussing the truth of opinions
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Diatribe
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A forceful verbal attack
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Dysphemism
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Replace something with worse word
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Eclipsis
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Omission of word
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Elision
Omissision of a sound when speaking
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Enallage
Use of form/tense for a grammatically incorrect counterpart
| Got milk?
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Enthymeme
An argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated
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Epiphany
Moment where character receives realization
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Epithet
A (usually negative) replacement/accompaniment for a word
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Exergasia
Parallelism where the idea is repeated but the wording only is changed
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Gemination
A doubling of something to add evidence
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Hamartia
Fatal flaw
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Heteronym
2 words that are spelled the same but sound different
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Invective
Insulting/critical language
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Jargon
Language used by a particular group (only)
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Leitmotif
Short reoccurring theme
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Malapropism
Use of similar sounding but wrong word
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Metastasis
Skipping over awkward matter
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Motif
A recurring theme
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Neologism
A new word
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Portmanteau
Word formed of other words
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Mon sequitur
A statement that doesn’t logically follow
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Palilogy
Repitition of word/phrase
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Paralepsis
Emphasizing a point by passing over or denying it
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Parison
Parallelism with corresponding clause structure
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Parody
Imitation of something/someone
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Pathetic fallacy
Attribute of human traits to nonhuman things
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Periergy
Excessive, bombastic/labored style
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Philippic
Bitter verbal attack
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Platitude
A remark said too much
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Premise
A Proposition upon which an argument is based
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Pretext
A reason that isn’t the real reason
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Satire
Use of humor, exaggeration, ridicule to expose:criticize
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Solecism
Grammatical mistake
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Sophism
Using a fallible argument deliberately
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Spoonerism
Error where sounds are switched but it still makes a sentence
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Squib
Short satire
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Syllepsis
Word applied to two different sorts of words
| Caught the train and a cold
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Syllogism
Form of reasoning that combines two premises to arrive at a conclusion
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Synaesthesia
One sense gets crossed up with another one
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Synchisis
Disarrangement of words
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Tapinosis
Name calling
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Tapinosis
Name calling
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Verisimilitude
Appearance of being true or real
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Banal
Lacking in originality
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Bombastic
Big words but little content
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Cogent
Forcefully convincing
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Colloquial
Regional speech, slang
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Didactic
In a Teaching manner
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Esoteric
Intended for a specific group
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Hackneyed
Overused
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Incendiary
Designed to cause fires/reaction
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Lucid
Clear
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Deduce
To arrive at a conclusion
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Denotation
Literal definition of something
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Nebulous
Vague, cloudy
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Objective
Not influenced by feelings just facts
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Ostensible
Stated/appearing to be true, but it may not be
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Pedantic
Patronizing, detailed, overdone
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Sesquipedalian
Long word
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Subjective
Based on feelings
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Obfuscate
To make cloudy or unintelligible
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Metonymy
Substitution of an attribute for something
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Allegory
A symbol- often multidimensional or big
| Like animal farm
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Aphorism
Brief Statement with meaning. (Like a cliche)
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Archaism
Really old word/phrase
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Archetype
Something that represents something, often a global symbol
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Bildungsroman
Coming of age story
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Candor
Truthfulness
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Caricature
Exageration
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Conceit
Using 2 non-related things compared for a metaphor
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Connotation
Implied meaning
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Diction
Word choice
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Ethos
Persuasion because of speaker’s position or authority
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Euphemism
Substitution of milder phrase
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Hubris
Excessive pride
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Hyperbole
Exaggeration
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Irony
Something unexpected happens
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Juxtaposition
2 things side by side to compare/show contrast
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Litotes
Double negative statement
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Logos
Persuasion using appeal to reason/facts
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Meiosis
Understatement to highlight
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Oxymoron
2 contradictory words
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Paradox
A seemingly contradictory statement that seems to also make sense
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Parallelism
2 or more phrases with the same structure
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Pathos
Persuasion through emotion
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Rhetoric
Art of using speech
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Semantics
Branch of language dealing with meaning of words
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Synecdoche
Using a part to describe
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Syntax
Arrangement of words within something. Word order
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Verbiage
Excessive words too much words far too many words
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Vernacular
Language spoken in a particular area
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Allitération
Repetition of sounds
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Allusion
Direct/indirect reference to something that is presumably known
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Anaphora
Repetition of beginning of phrase
| It was the best...it was the worst...
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Anecdote
Short narrative
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Antecedent
The word referred to by a pronoun
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Antithesis
Two contrasting ideas ideas intentionally juxtaposed often through parallel structure
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Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions usually and
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Atmosphere
Emotional mood created by an entire literary work
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Chiasmus
Figure of speech where two phrases in parallel are switched in wording
Land was ours before we were the land’s
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Clause
Contains subject and verb
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Coherence
A principle that demands clarity of meaning
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Diacope
Repetition of phrase at end of sentence
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Enumeratio
Figure of amplification that divides something into its parts and lists them
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Expletive
Figure of emphasis, short phrase that interrupts
| « In fact »
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Exposition
One of the chief types of composition, meaning purpose to explain
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Extended metaphor
Metaphor developed throughout the work
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Figurative language
Writing or speech not intended to have literal meaning but to be imaginative instead
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Figure of speech
Device used to produce figurative language
| Personification, irony, etc
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Generic conventions
Features that define pieces as certain genres
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Genre
Major category of a work
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Homily
Serious talk, speech, lecture, with moral/spiritual advice
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Hyperbole
E
135
Hypophora
Reasoning method with rhetorical questions and answers
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Imagery
Sensory language, can represent senses but have higher meaning
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Inference/infer
Draw conclusion for presented info
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Invective
Verbal and abusive attack, emotionally violent
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Juxtaposition
2 words/phrases are compared to compare/contrast
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Loose sentence
Main idea then other phrases/clauses. Creates informal feel
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Metaphor
A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things
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Mood
Either:
Grammatical mood (indictive=fact, subjunctive=other than fact, imperative=commands)
Atmosphere of piece
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Narrative
Telling of a story
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Onomatopoeia
Sound imitation
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Periodic sentence
Has the main idea at the end
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Polysyndeton
More conjunctions
| FANBOYS
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Point of view
Perspective of story
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Predicate adjective
Type of subjects compliment- group of adjectives
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Predicate nominative
Type of subject compliment- group of nouns
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Prose
Printer determines length of line
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Rhetorical modes
Four modes
1. Purpose of expository writing is to explain and analyze
2. Argumentation is to prove
3. Description is to visually present something
4. Narration is to tell a story
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Rhetorical question
Question with implied answer
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Sarcasm
TO TEAR FLESH
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Style
How the author chooses the devices, wording, etc they use
| Style relating to time period also
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Subordinate clause
Subject and verb but can’t stand alone
| Although....
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Symbol
Anything that represents itself and something else
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Theme
Central message of a work
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Thesis
Sentence that expresses point of paper
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Tone
Author’s attitude and how they approach speaking about something
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Transition
Phrase/word that links ideas
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Undertone
Attitude that may lie under the presented tone
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Voice
Overall remains the same, unlike tone which can change
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Zeugma
Double use of verb
| Opened window and mind
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Tautology
Repetition of words that are nearly synonymous
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Tricolon
Succession of 3 coordinate items
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Epistrophe
Repetition of words at the end of sentences
