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| Freight-Train | Sentece cosisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjuctions. |
| Homily | Piece of Literature with a moral theme/inspirational. |
| Hyperbole | "I swear to you, that man was over 200 feet tall!" |
| Jargon | Terms that apply to certain professions. (doctors...)Puts distance between reader and speaker or writer. |
| Irony | Most common technique of the satirists; instrument of truth provides witt and humor. |
| Litotes (understatement) | "Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do your car any good." |
| Loose Sentence | A sentece in which the essential elements com first, followed by subordinate parts, modifiers, ect. |
| Metaphor | I am the bread of life. |
| Metonymy | Figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. |
| Mood | Conscious state of mind, or predominate emotion. |
| Oxymoron | Jumbo shrimp |
| Paradox | A rule is both constraint and a guarantee of freedom. |
| Metonymy | You can't fight city hall. |
| Parallelism/parallel construction | I felt tired, I felt sick, and I felt cold. |
| Parody | A satiric imitation of a work with the idea of rediculing the author, his ideas, or work. |
| Pedantic | Display of narrow minded and trivial scholarship. |
| Periodic Sentence | Despite heavy winds and nearly impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely. |
| Predicate Adjective | To state or affirm as an attribute or a quality of something. |
