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| The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |
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| A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said |
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| Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk |
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| A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared |
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| A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form |
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| Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions |
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| A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
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| A statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material |
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| The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships |
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| The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
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| The act of alluding; indirect reference |
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| Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar |
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| The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line |
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| The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature |
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| The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to |
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| An interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject |
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| The dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand an incongruity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain unaware of the incongruity |
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| The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases |
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| An assertion that is essentially self-contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises |
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| A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
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| An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
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| Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) |
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| Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles |
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| The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. |
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| Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
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| To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand |
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| The specific grammatical, syntactic, and structural character of a given language |
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| A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined |
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| An instance of digressing, especially a written or spoken passage that has no bearing on the main subject |
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