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Irony
A situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected
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Jargon
The special language of a profession or group
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Logic
The process of reasoning
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Logical Fallacy
A mistake in reasoning
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Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another
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Metonymy
A figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated
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Mode
The method or form of a literary work; the manner in which a work of literature is written
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Mood
Similar to tone, it is the primary emotional attitude of a work (the feeling of the work; the atmosphere)
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Motif
main theme or subject of a work that is elaborated on in the development of the piece; a repeated pattern or idea
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Narration
The telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse
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Negative-Positive
Sentence that begins by stating what is NOT true, then ending by stating what is true
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Non-sequitur
When one statement isn't logically connected to another
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Objectivity
An impersonal presentation of events and characters
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Onomatopoeia
The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool," "bitter-sweet," "pretty ugly," "jumbo shrimp," and "cold fire"
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Pacing
The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
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Parable
A short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory
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Paradox
A statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning
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Parallelism
The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by modifiers in a row to describe the same noun or verb
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Parody
A work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements
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Pathos
The aspects of a literary work that elicit sorrow or pity from the audience
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Pedantic
A term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing
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Personification
The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object
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Persuasion
A form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion
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Oversimplification
When a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument
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