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Style and Rhetoric

English vocab words

QuestionAnswer
A writer or speaker's word choice; vocab, syntax, word order Diction
Informal conversation: "y'all" Colloquial Diction
Writer's attitude towards his or her subject, characters, or audience Tone
Contrasts between what is stated and what is meant Irony
Descriptive or figurative language used in literatuve to creat word pictures Imagery
A dominant idea or central theme motif
tending to excite or stimulate provacative
central message or insight into life related by a literary work theme
the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences syntax
a sudden realization epiphany
a writer's typical way of writing; individuality style
repetition of a grammatical structure parallel structure
side by side juxtaposition
contrast of ideas in parallel form antitheses
simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward an object, person, or action ambivalence
designed or intended to teach didactic
free from bias, prejudice, or malice candid
controversial argument polemical
opposition in feeling; strong dislike antipathy
lack of care indifference
specific and real places to make seem real verasimitude
personification pathetic fallacy
placement of something out of its appropriate time period anachronism
mishearing or misinterpretation mondegreen
incorrect use of a word or phrase malapropism
compact expression in which a single word governs two or more seceeding phrasing zeugma
use of a negative to establish the positive litote
understatements euphemisms
an expression apparently contradictory in meaning yet readily understood, such as "awfully good" oxymoron
using a word to substitute for something else closely associated with it; white house for the president metonymy
using words and phrases that seem contradictory, but actually are true (love and hate were intertwined) paradox
using part of something to represent the whole (I don't have a penny- I dont have any money) synecdoche
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