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Reading #3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |