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satire
ridicule of folly or to expose to correct an incident, the rules of united airlines fight or flight club
diction
Speaker's choice of words
syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language; usually the speaker decides
tone vs mood
Tone: the feeling the speaker wants to invoke on the audience from his text Mood: feeling created by the speaker's work
metaphor vs simile
they both state comparison between two objects, but a simile uses like or as and a metaphor uses neither
personification
a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human emotions and feelings
hyperbole
a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to create a heightened effect
Parrallelism
repetition of grammatical structure to keep a fluid read for the audience
juxtaposition
placing elements together to represent a comparison or contrast
antithesis
the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, most commonly in parallel structure
compound sentence
a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
complex sentence
a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
periodic sentence
a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause
cumulative sentence
a sentence that completes its main clause/thought at the beginning and then adds to it
imperative sentence
a sentence used for commands or requests
