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Ad Hominen Arguement
An arguement that appeals to emotion rather than logic.
Allegory
The device of using a character or strong element symbollically
Alliteration
The repettition of sounds especially initial consonant sounds
Allision
A direct or indirect reference to something commonly known.
Abiguity
Multiple meanings of a word
Analogy
A similarity or comparison between two things that helps explain something unfamiliar.
Antecedent
Word referred to by a pronoun
Antithesis
Figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas within a balanced rematical structure
Aphorisma
terse statement that express a general truth or moral principal
Apostrophe
Figure of speech that directly adresses an absent or imaginary person.
Atmosphere
emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work
Caricature
A representation, literary or pictorial where a subjects features are exturated
Chiasmus
figure of speech based on inverted parallelism
clause
a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and verb
Colloquialism
slang or informal in speech or writing
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english vocab 1
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Ap english vocabulary 1
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2010-09-29T03:40:58Z
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