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Alliteration

The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Allusion

An indirect symbolic reference to something, usually a literary or historical person, place or event.

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Allegory

Texts with a hidden meaning/moral (form of an extended metaphor).

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Amplification

Repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it.

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Anaphora

The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the start of sentences.

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Anastrophe

The syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed in the sentence.

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Anecdote

A short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh.

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Archaism

Use of words and expressions that have become obsolete in the common speech of an era.

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Assonance

The repetition of identical or similar vowels in a sequence of nearby words.

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Antithesis

When two opposites are introduced in the same sentence. It is the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in a balanced way.

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Asyndeton

One or several conjunctions are omitted from a series of related clauses.

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Bathos

A sense of anticlimax so that the subject appears comical or ridiculous.

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Cacophony

Language that strikes the ear as harsh, rough and unmusical.

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Catharsis

Emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress.

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Chiasmus

A rhetorical or literary figure in which words or grammatical constructions are repeated in inverted order, in the same or a modified form.

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Cliche

An expression or action so frequently used that it has become hackneyed or cloying.

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Colloquialism

The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.

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Emotive Language

The use of language that derives or evokes emotions in the audience/reader.

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Euphemism

An inoffensive expression used in place of a blunt one that is felt to be disagreeable or embarrassing.

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Euphony

Language which strikes the ear as smooth, pleasant and musical.

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Idiom

A phrase that has a figurative meaning to it which can be frequently spoken in day to day conversations.

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Laconic

Using very few words.

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List of Three

The use of 3 nouns listed out. It is often used to carry out an important message, and can be summarised.

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Metaphor

A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something in order to suggest a similarity.

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Modals

Verbs used to express obligation, ability, possibility.

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Paradox

A statement which seems on its face to be logically contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to be interpretative in a way that makes good sense.

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Parallelism

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

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Prosody

The patterns of rhythm and sound in literature such as alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.

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Personal Pronoun

The grammatical use of words to address other people.

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Portmanteau

When two or more words are joined together to coin a new word, but always refers to a single concept.

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Pun

A play on words exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

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Satire

A literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards it attitudes of amusement.

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Synthetic Personalisation

Addressing mass audiences as though they were individuals through inclusive language.

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Statistics

Numerical or graphical information or data.

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Tone

The attitudes being expressed toward the subject and implied toward the audience in a literary work.

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