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| Irony | a manner of speaking or writing that does not directly state a discrepancy, but implies one |
| Verbal irony | the intentional use of words to suggest a meaning other than literal |
| Sarcasm | irony delivered with an intent to hurt |
| Situational irony | the circumstances themselves are incongruous, run contrary to expectations, or twist fate |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience, or something closely related is used in place of the thing actually meant |
| Motif | the term used to describe a conspicuous element, such as a type of incident, device, reference, or formula, which occurs frequently in works of literature |
| Narration | the mode of writing that tells a story |
| Objective | the emphasis of the writing falls on the topic; it is not opinionated |
| Subjective | the emphasis of the writing falls on the writer's view of the subject |
| Oxymoron | a paradoxical utterance which conjoins two terms that in ordinary usage are contraries |
| Paradox | a statement which seems on its face to be self-contradictory or absurd yet turns out to make good sense |
| Parallelism (parallel structure) | keeping ideas of equal importance in similar grammatical form |
| Paraphrase | putting another writer's thoughts into your own words |
| Person | the grammatical distinction made between the speaker, the one spoken to, and the one spoken about |
| Persuasion | the technique of changing people's minds or causing people to take action |
| Point of view | the physical position or the mental angle from which a writer beholds a subject |
| Premise | a name for a proposition or assumption that supports a conclusion |
| Process analysis | a form of exposition that most often explains step by step how something is done or how to do something |
| Rhetoric | the study (and the art) of using language effectively; also has a negative connotation of empty or pretentious language meant to waffle, stall, or deceive |
| Rhetorical question | a question posed for effect, one that requires no answer; meant to provoke thought, emphasize a point, asserts or denies something without making a direct statement, launches further discussion, introduces an opinion, or leads the reader where the writer intends |
