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Rhetoric
the art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse; Rhetoric focuses on the interrelationship of invention, arrangement, and style in order to create felicitous and...

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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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Oversimplification
When a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the...

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Humor
anything that causes laughter or amusement; up until the end of the Renaissance, humor meant a person’s temperament



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Hyperbole
deliberate exaggeration in order to create...

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Denotation
literal meaning of a word as defined



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Description
the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and...

These terms should be of use to you in answering the multiple-choice questions, analyzing prose passages, and composing your essays.



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Abstract

refers to language that describes...