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Analogy

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Extended comparison b/n 2 unlike things; usually a well-known thing is employed to explain something less familiar

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Apostrophe

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Direct address of a personified object or audience, forceful emotional device

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Irony

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Contrast b/n what seems to be and what really is

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Dramatic Irony

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Reader or audience knows more about what is happening/is about to happen than the characters do

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Situational Irony

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An event is the opposite of what is expected (lottery winners go bankrupt)

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Verbal Irony

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Words mean opposite of what is intended (“great weather, right?” when there is the 3rd consecutive weekend snowstorm)

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Kairos

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rhetorical art of seizing the occasion, covering both timing and the appropriate medium

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Metaphor

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Figure that makes a comparison w/out using like or as

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Metonymy

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reference to something closely related to the actual subject, so standing in for the object itself

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Paradox

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An impossible pair that does point to a truth

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Synecdoche

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use of a part of something to represent the whole

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understatement

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force of description is less than one might expect; can emphasize an idea, calm a reader, highlight an extreme nature, or add humor

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Juxtaposition

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placement of 2 things side by side for emphasis

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Inversion

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reversal of normal word order: blessed are the pure in heart

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Anadiplosis

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figure that builds one thought on top of another by taking the last word of a clause and using it to begin the next clause

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Anaphora

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repeats the first word in the succeeding phrases or clauses

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Antimetabole

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repetition of words in an inverted order

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Antithesis

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parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas

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Appositive

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word or phrase that renamed a nearby noun or pronoun

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asyndeton

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leaves out conjunctions in a list or between clauses

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polysyndeton

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figure that links clauses with a repeated conjunction

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epanalepsis

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same word or phrase is found both in the beginning and at the end of a sentence

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epistrophe

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same word or phrase is repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences

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parallelism

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use of same general structure to provide links

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conditional

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use of the “if…then” clause

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declarative

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gives info/explains what’s going on (strong verb)

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exclamatory

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provides emotion/emphasis

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imperative

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makes a command (often “you” is implied)

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interrogative

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asks a question, thereby placing responsibility on the audience

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hortative sentence

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urges or strongly encourages

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negative definition

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technique that defines by explaining what something IS NOT, followed up usually by an actual definition

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Allusion

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short, informal reference to a generally well-known place, person, event, etc.