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This includes some more random vocab, as well as more rhetorical devices
Cogent (adj.)
clear and convincing
Lionize (v.)
treat someone as celebrity
Lamentation (n.)
expression of grief or sorrow
Lugubrious (n.)
looking or sounding sad
Fervor (n.)
intense or passionate feeling
Pander (v.)
indulge needs or habits of someone
Leviathan (n.)
sea serpent demon
Denunciation (n.)
putting something down
Lachrymose (adj.)
tearful; inducing tears
Shadowban (n.)
partially blocking a user and/or their content from certain areas of an online space
Jeremiad (n.)
long, mournful complaint
Din (n.)
loud, unpleasant noise
Foray (n./v.)
sudden attack into enemy territory
Anaphora
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Symploce
the repetition of a word at the beginning and end of successive clauses or sentences
Epistrophe
the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
Amplification
adding more detail
Adnomination
repeating words with the same root word
Mesodiplosis
repetition of a word or phrase at the middle of every clause
Anadiplosis
the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next
Zeugma
device in which a word applies to two things in different senses
Apostrophe
speaking to something that can’t respond
Metonym
where a related word or phrase is used to refer to an idea or object instead of its own name
Personification
applying human characteristics to non-human entities or objects
Metaphor
figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison
Synedoche
a part is made to represent the whole
Simile
involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
Objectification
degrading someone to the status of a mere object
Antithesis
an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of each other
Chiasmus
in which words or concepts are repeated in reverse order
Parallelism
grammatical technique that uses identical grammatical structures for related words, phrases, or clauses
Paradox
statement that contradicts itself, but is also true
Juxtaposition
places different elements side by side in order to emphasize their differences
Oxymoron
contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Idiom
short expression that is peculiar to a language, people, or place
Hyperbole
using extreme exaggeration to emphasize a feeling, situation, or issue
Synaesthesia
activating multiple senses at once
Understatement
literary device used to downplay a situation as less serious, less significant, or smaller than it really is
Assonance
repetition of a vowel sounds
Rhyme
correspondence of sound between words
Dissonance
lack of harmony
Homonym
same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings
Alliteration/Consonance
repeating the same sound at the beginning of multiple words/repetition of only consonant sounds
Onomatopoeia
formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
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