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Vocab Wordz

QuestionAnswer
Assertion A declaration or statement
Cogent convincing reasonable
didactic intended to instruct
incontrovertible not able to be denied or disputed
plausible seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
condescending treating people as weak or inferior
convoluted intricate; complex
futile havingno useful purpose; pointless
egregious conspicuously bad or offensive
frenetic wildly excited or active
gratuitous given freely; unearned; unwarranted
clandestine secretive
dogged stubbornly persevering
incumbent imposed as a duty; obligatory
periodic sentence a sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is held until the very end
loose sentence a type of sentence with parallel clause structure
balanced sentence a compound sentence with parallel clause structure
non-sequitur a phrase that does not make a logical connection to teh information before its opposite
litotes a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite
pun a humorous play on words, using similar-sounding or identical words to suggest different
trope the generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, and metaphor
dramatic irony a circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about the situation than the character
genre a term used to describe literary forms, such as nowvel, play,essay, poetry
dialect a variety of a language that is distinguished from othe varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammer, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from other geographically or socially
prose any discourse that is not poetry
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