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TermDefinition
Invective Emotionally or violent, and verbal denancuation or attack using strong abusive language.
Irony/ Ironic The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. The difference between what appears to be and what actually is true.
Juxtaposition When two words, phrases or images, ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.
Litotes Figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposites, Simple or plain.
Logos Appealing to measure in logical way (Logic)
Metaphor Figure of speech implied comparison of seemingly unlike things with out using like or as.
Metonymy Figure of speech in which the name of the object, person or idea is substituted for that of another.
Narrative The telling of a story of series of events.
Onomatopia Figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.
Oxymoron Figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined.
Paradox A statement that might be contradictory but which may be true in fact.
Parallelism It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.
Parody A work that closely immitates the style of something or project, basically making fun of a movie or film.
Prose Dtermines the length of a line.
Repetition. The duplication of the exact word.
Syntax The way the author uses chooses to join words into phrases, clauses or sentences.
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