Ciara Perez Vocabualry

Metonymy

The alternate meaning of something subbing it with something associated with it

Lyrical tone

Expressing a poets inner feelings

Laconic tone

Concise and short

Invective

Casting blame on someone or something, abusive language

Intimate tone

Very familiar tone

Incisive style

Insightful and keen

Hyperbole

Extreme exaggeration, dramatization

Haughty tone

Vain, full of yourself and proud

Fanciful tone

Using ones imagination

Extended metaphor

A metaphor used throughout a text or passage

Erudite tone

Scholarly / polished

Euphonious

Pleasant sounding, nice

Epitaph

A statement or speech commemorating someone who has died

Denotation

The literal dictionary definition

Conventional tone

lacking spontaneity.

Condescending tone

Writing displaying a feeling of superiority

Commonplace style

Ordinary, Simple

Caricature

Exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics.

Awe

Solem or wonder

Asydenton

Deliberately leaving out conjunctions

Assonance

The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels

Apostrophe

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person

Antimetabole

The repetition of words in an opposite order to sharpen a contrast.

Allusion

A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known,

Figurative language

Language that is not meant to be literal

Ad hominem

An argument attacking the other person

Analogy

Similar comparison between things

Ambiguaty

Multiple meanings of something on purpose or not

Circular Argument

An argument that commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove.

Choleric tone

Hot tempered, anger

Commonplace style

Ordinary, plain and boring

Caustic tone

The use of intense sarcasms

Didactic

Trying to teach or instruct someone

Derisive tone

Mocking

Disdainful tone

Condemning, scornful

Euphemism

To make something sound better that is harsh

eulogy

Praise for the dead

False dilemma

Oversimplicaton of a problem