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Doctor, do you concur?
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Jargon
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The Rainforest is important.. We need to save the forest…
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Discourse
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Basically, the girl falls in love with him. They
live happily ever after
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Summary
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There is a Flying Dog
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Claim
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/“Should I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a
box?” when Gimli...
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Comic Relief
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In this book I will tell my story
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Narrator
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The trees were huge and the fire bright
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Imagery
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He was a great guy; we’ll all miss him!
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Eulogy
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“Don’t burn bridges behind you”
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Adage
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“Peter Piper Picked a Peck..”
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Alliteration
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A telephone in the background of the Mona Lisa
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Anachronism
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Eating carrots is like sucking on dead fish
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Analogy
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Lord Voldemort, Mr. Hyde, Skar in the Lion King,
Darth Vader
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Antagonist
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“They promised freedom but provided slavery”
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Antithesis
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The perfect hero; Superman
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Archetype
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To make sure students didn’t plagiarize, they want one of these after an
essay
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Bibliography
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Seize the Day!
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Carpe Diem
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My mom talked around the subject- she used ___
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Circumlocution
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Romeo and Juliet has withstood the test of time
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Classic
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When I think of a snake, I think of evil
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Connotation
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Before buying a book, I always check the back to
see what was written about it
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Critique
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My brother sees only the bad side, he is a ___
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Cynic
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Gibbs made a decision based on the evidence at hand, what is this called?
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Deductive Reasoning
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So that my mom would believe me when I said I caught our house on fire, I
gave her...
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Descriptive Detail
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To insure his speech was received well, the
senator chose his words carefully
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Diction
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1. Unicorn- a mythical creature resembling a horse, with a single horn
in the...
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Denotation
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A sure way to insure people will tune you out is to talk in a dry manner,
using pompus...
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Didactic
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A ll I have to do is mention outer space and my dad goes into a tangent
about exploration,...
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Digression
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The entire movie, the audience knew who the real killer was, but the main
character...
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Dramatic Irony
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The newspapers used “…” when they printed my
interview, perhaps I was too wordy
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Ellipsis
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“May was hot and June the same”
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Elliptical Construction
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I know what you feel, I’ve gone through this too
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Empathy
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"I am not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde) Example
of what?
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Epigram
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His most striking qualities are his soul-searching eyes
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Epithet
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I prefer to say ‘pass away’ instead of ‘die’
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Euphemism
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Sidney Croy is well known for his truth
revealing articles about politicians and corruption
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Expose
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The Tortoise and the Hare is a great story with
a wonderful lesson
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Fable
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I could eat a horse
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Figure of Speech
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There are many different kinds of music and literature
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Genre
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Preacher gave a great lesson on the 7 Deadly Sins, this past Sunday.
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Homily
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By the end of last nights sermon, no one in the
parish will ever lie again; they now live...
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Harangue
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Real men never cry
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Hyperbole
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“She asked me if I was coming”
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Indirect Quotation
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opposite of deductive reasoning
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Inductive Reasoning
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By reading all the press releases, I decided that the man was guilty
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Inference
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McGee jumped up and started screaming that it was all Tony’s fault and the
he was...
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Invective
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She was scared of planes, so to get over her fear she went on a trip by air.
The plane...
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Irony
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Dad is not a bad cook
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Litotes
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Jed Babbin: "Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting
without your...
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Lampoon
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“She asked me if I was coming”
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Indirect Quotation
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"It is beyond my apprehension." Danny Ozark, baseball team manager
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Malapropism
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Blood is thicker than water
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Maxim
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“Gone with the Wind” is very exaggerated and dramatic, especially the movie!
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Melodrama
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He is a Hercules!
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Metaphor
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The White House says….
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Metonomy
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“Imagine this! Kids playing outside, people riding their bikes, junk food
shops...
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Montage
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The story made me sad. The song was happy and bright. That movie made me
curious about...
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Mood
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The purpose of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is to
discourage lying, which is wrong
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Moral
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Rooms painted pink and teddy bears laying about (for girls), rooms pained
blue with...
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Motif
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“Don’t rush me! I need to deeply ponder this!”
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Muse
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Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox
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Myth
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I look only at the facts
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Objective
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Bam! Bang, Buzz, Eek!
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Onomatopoeia
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Pretty Ugly, Larger Half, Tragic Comedy, Microsoft Works, Military
Intelligence, Freezer...
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Oxymoron
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The story Jesus told about the Good Samaritan.
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Parable
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales
again."
(C.S....
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Paradox
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"Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening
the door. ...
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Paraphrase
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“Help stop a different kid of child abuse” “Tell
him [the rabbit in her arms] that...
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Pathos
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“Snow speaks to the people, its falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its
white...
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Personification
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”
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Proverb
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Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat minor.
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Pun
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He keeps asking the same question over and over and over again.
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Repetition
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