The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose
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Litote
A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
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Loose Sentence
A long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases
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Metaphor
One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy. An implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of like or as.
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Metonymy
A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something
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Mode of Discourse
The way in which information is presented in written or spoken form. Narration, description, process analysis , and cause and effect are all types of this.
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Mood
A feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator’s attitude and point of view. It is a “feeling” that establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse.
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Narrative
A mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework.
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Onomatopoeia
A word capturing or approximating the sound of what is described. The purpose of these words is to make a passage more effective for the reader or listener.
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements
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Paradox
A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true
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Parallel Structure
The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. In prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance.
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Pathos
That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. In argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity.
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Periodic Sentence
A long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end .
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Personification
Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities.
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