| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Sanctimonious | making a hypocritical show of religious devotion |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| Anaphora | the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words |
| Exemplification | something that exemplifies; an illustration or example. |
| Parochialism | a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism. |
| Passive Voice | the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient |
| Impassioned | filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent. |
| Bitter | having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes. |
| Sarcasm | harsh or bitter derision or irony. |
| Discrete | apart or detached from others; separate; distinct |
| Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| Diatribe | a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism |
| Wry | produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features |
| Rueful | causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect |
| Reductio ad absurdum | a reduction to an absurdity; the refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead. |
| Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in |
| Understatement | to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms |
| Periodic Sentence | a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense, |
| Objective | something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target |
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