Words to Know
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Diction
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Imagery
The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Juxtaposition
A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.
Simple Sentences
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction; a phrase where the two words have the opposite meaning ("beautiful disaster)
Oxymoron
Repeating a word or phrase at the end of different parts of text.
Epistrophe
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
Comparing two like things to one another using like or as.
Simile
Connotation
Making a comparison without using the words like or as.
Metaphor
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
Repetition
Contrasts two opposing ideas in parallel gramatical structures.
Antithesis