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jargon | words particular to a profession, trade, or group |
logos | fleshing out the central idea through claims, data, warrants |
metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things |
mood | the emotional state of mind, the felling, that a work of literature evokes |
onomatopoeia | the use of words and imitate sounds |
overstatement | an exaggeration used for effect |
oxymoron | a two-word figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas |
paradox | an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it |
pathos | the rhetorical appeal to emotions |
pun | a play words based on different meanings of words that sound alike |