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Alliteration: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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Allusive tone: characterized by indirect references
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Aposiopesis: breaking off in the middle of a sentence.
example: "Touch me one more time, and I swear--"
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Bantering tone: cleverly amusing in tone
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Benevolent tone: having or showing or arising from a desire to promote the welfare or happiness of others
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Burlesque tone: make a parody of
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Cacaphony: harsh discordance of sound
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Cliche: a trite or obvious remark
example: "turn over a new leaf"
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Clinical tone: extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical
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Colloquiallism: informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing.
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Conceit: elaborate parrallel between two similair objects or ideas
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Condescending tone: possessing an attitude of superiority, patronizing
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Cynical tone: believing the worst of human nature and motives
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Detached tone: showing lack of emotional involvement
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Didactic tone: instructive (especially excessively)
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Diffident tone: shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved
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Disdainful tone: scornful; regarding someone as beneath you.
talking down to someone.
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Dramatic tone: sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
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Effusive tone: showing excessive emotion; overflowing
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Epithet: descriptive word or phrase
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Euphemism: an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive
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Euphony: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
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Factious tone: causing disagreement
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Fanciful tone: indulging in fantasies; imaginative in a playful way; whimsical
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Figures of Speech: word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be taken literally
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Flippant tone: showing inappropriate levity, Treating serious matters lightly
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Idiom: an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words.
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Incisive tone: clear and sharp in analysis or expression
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Indignant tone: angered at something unjust or wrong
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Inflammatory tone: causing excitement or anger; leading to violence or disorder
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Lugubrious tone: excessively mournful
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Meiosis: understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
example: (when getting stabbed) "It's only a scratch"
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Mock-heroic tone: mocking or burlesquing any style, action, or character
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Mock-serious tone: pretending to be serious; to make fun of as if it were serious
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Objective tone: language or tones that are neutral and without subjectivity or bias
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Paradox: a statement that contradicts itself
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Paralipsis: emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it.
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Pathetic Fallacy: the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects
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Patronizing tone: possessing an attitude of superiority, condescending
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Pedantic tone: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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Periphrasis: a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
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Petty tone: contemptibly narrow in outlook
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Restrained tone: reserved; controlled (not emotional)
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Satric tone: ridiculling to show weakness in order to make a point or to teach
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Scornful tone: Filled with hate
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Somber tone: gloomy
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Synaesthesia: the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
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Trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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Whimsical tone: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
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Zeugma: use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one
