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| concrete details | details that relate ro or describe actual, specific things or events |
| connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word |
| cumulative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or declaration |
| declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or a decelatation |
| deductive rasoning | a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and the appluing that principle to a specific case |
| denotation | the literal meaning of the word |
| dialect | a variety of speech characterized by its own particular grammar or pronunciation, often associated with a particular geographical region |
| dialouge | conversation between two ore more people |
| diction | the word choices made by the writer |
| didactic | having the primary purpose if teaching or instructing |
| dilemma | a situation that requires a person to decide between two equally attractive or equally unatractive alternatives |
| dissonance | harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds |
| elegy | a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solem theme |
| ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the contex |
| epic | a long narative poem written in elevated style which presents the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or a ntion |
| epigram | a brief, pithy, and often paradoxical saying |
| epigraph | a saying or statement on the title of a work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of a work |
| epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight |
| apitaph | an inscription of a tombstone or burial place |
| epithet | a term used to point out a characteristic of a person (swift-footed Achillies) |
| eulogy | a formal speech prasinf a person who has died |
| euphemism | an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unplesent |
| exclamatory sentence | a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark |
| expletive | an interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes, a profanity |
| fable | a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters |
