| Term | Definition |
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| Consonance | the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels |
| Convention | an accepted manner, model or tradition |
| Critique | an assessment or analysis of something, such as a passage of writing, for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre |
| Deductivewri Reasoning (deduction) | the method of argument in which specific statements and conslusions are drawn from general principals |
| Dialect | the language and speech idisyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group |
| Diction | the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect |
| Didactic | writing or speech that has an instructive purpose or a lesson |
| Elegy | a poem or prose work that laments, or meditates up on the death of, a person or persons |
| Epistrophe | in rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences |
| Epitaph | writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone |
| Ethos | in rhetoric, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writier, or narrator |
| Eulogy | a speech or written passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of a deceased person |
| Euphemism | an indirect, kinder, or less harsh or hurtful way of expressing unpleasant information |
| Exposition | the interpretation or analysis of a text |
| Extended Metaphor | a series of comparisons within a piece of writing |
| Figurative Language | figures of speech, among them metaphor, simile, personification, synecdoche, metonomy, allusion, and symbol |
| Flashback | an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration |
| Genre | a type or class of literature |
| Homily | a sermon, but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life |
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