"the repetition of the same consonants of words of stressed syllables in any sequence of neighboring words"

"an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work"

establishes a more familiar concept to explain a more complicated or remote subject

"a device used to create contrast by placing two parallel but opposite ideas in a sentence"

"the repetition of the consonant sounds two or more times in short succession within a sentence or phrase"

"when one or more words are left out from a sentence

" a label used to identify an appeal to the ethics of a culture or individual"

an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken for its literal understanding of the word choices used in the statement

"visual descriptive, used to characterize anything regarding to objects/actions/ideas in a that appeals our physical sense"

"the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite of what the writer intends to achieve a humorous effect or to add emphasis"

"a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction"

"a quality that evokes pity or sadness"

"the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to a nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in a human form"

" a thing that represents or stands for another thing like an object that represents an abstract idea"

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rhetorical terms

Term	Definition
alliteration	"the repetition of the same consonants of words of stressed syllables in any sequence of neighboring words"
allusion	"an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work"
analogy	establishes a more familiar concept to explain a more complicated or remote subject
antithesis	"a device used to create contrast by placing two parallel but opposite ideas in a sentence"
consonance	"the repetition of the consonant sounds two or more times in short succession within a sentence or phrase"
diction	the author's choice of words
ellipsis	"when one or more words are left out from a sentence
ethos	" a label used to identify an appeal to the ethics of a culture or individual"
hyperbole	an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken for its literal understanding of the word choices used in the statement
imagery	"visual descriptive, used to characterize anything regarding to objects/actions/ideas in a that appeals our physical sense"
irony	"the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite of what the writer intends to achieve a humorous effect or to add emphasis"
oxymoron	"a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction"
pathos	"a quality that evokes pity or sadness"
personification	"the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to a nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in a human form"
symbol/symbolism	" a thing that represents or stands for another thing like an object that represents an abstract idea"

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