| Term | Definition |
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| ad hominem argument | From Latin meaning" to or against the man," this is an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feel , From the Latin meaning "to or against the man," this is an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect |
| allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. |
| ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. |
| aphorism | a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle |
| caricature | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect |
| chiasmus | an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases |
| colloquialism | slang or informality in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, they give a conversational tone. |
| conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects |
| didactic | teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson |
| antithesis | a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. The resulting parallellism serves to emphasizeopposition of ideas. |
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