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Lionize
to give a lot of attention to, treat like a celebrity
Pander
Indulge
Cogent
clear, logical, and convincing
Lugubrious
looking/sounding sad
Leviathan
gigantic, big
Lachrymose
tearful, tragic
Shadowban
to make a user’s posts and comments no longer visible to others
Jeremiad
a long list of complaints
Din
loud noise
Amplification
restating an idea, adding more detail
Zeugma
a word being used for two things simultaneously
Metonym
when something is being represented with something closely related to it
Antithesis
makes a connection between two things using a contrast
Paradox
a contradiction
Colloquialism
casual vocabulary
Hyperbole
exaggerated statements
Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence
Homonym
when words are spelled the same but have different meanings
Symploce
repetition at the beginning and the end of a sentence
Mesodiplosis
repetition of the same words in the middle of a sentence
Anadiplosis
the last words of a clause are repeating in the next
Chiasmas
remixes the sentence
Juxtaposition
comparison using compare and contrast
Synaesthesia
the blending of senses
Alliteration
repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words
Epistrophe
repetition at the end of a sentence
Adnomination
use of words of the same root in the same sentence
Apostrophe
addressing someone/thing that isn’t there
Synecdoche
when a part of one thing represents its whole
Parallelism
using words or phrases with a similar structure
Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Dissonance
lack of continuity
Onomatopoeia
sounds written as words
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