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Ad Hominem
An attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas
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Anaphora
repeition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
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Anecdote
a hort, simple narrative of an incident; often used for humorous effect or to make a point
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aphorism
a short, witty statement
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apotrophe
calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person to a place, thing, or peronified abstraction
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asyndeton
- conjunctions are omitted
- ex. Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines
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didactic
writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach
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epistrophe
repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, claused sentences, or verses
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euphemism
nicer way of saying something
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metonymy
- a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to rpresent something with which it is associated
- Ex. The pen is mightier thatn the sword.
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non-sequitur
when one statement isn't logically connected to another
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objectivity
an impersonal presentation of events and characters
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parallelism
- phrases with similar structure put next to each other
- Ex. "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." MLK
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pedantic
writing that is scholarly
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polysyndeton
lots of conjunctions
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red herring
when a writer raises an irrelevent issue to draw attention away from the real issue
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reginonalism
things that pertain to a certain region
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straw man
when a writer atgues against a claim that nobody actually holds or is universally considered weak
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subjectivity
a personal presentation of events and characters influenced by the authors feelings and opinions
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synecdoche
- part of something is used to represent the whole
- Ex. All hands on deck
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anadipilosis
- the word is used near the end of the sentence and at the beginning of the sentence
- Ex. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering
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zeugma
- 2 parts of a sentence joined by a single common noun or verb
- Ex. She took my wallet and my heart in the same night
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zeitgeist
spirit of the times
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anachronism
chronological inconsistancy
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bildungsroman
coming of age story where the charachter grows morally and psycologicly
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