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Writing
Figures of Speech
Examples
Hodge Podge
Words
100
classification of a work
What is genre?
100
endows human-like characteristics to the nonhuman
What is personification?
100
jumbo shrip
What is oxymoron?
100
the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work
What is digression
100
special language of a profession or group
What is jargon?
200
any writing that isn't poetry
What is prose?
200
combination of opposites
What is oxymoron?
200
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky
What is personification?
200
the omission of a word or several words
What is ellipsis
200
not figurative, accurate to the letter
What is literal?
300
short composition on a particular theme/topic
What is essay?
300
figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness
What is euphemism?
300
I am so hungry I could eat a horse
What is hyperbole?
300
the special language of a profession or group
What is jargon
300
literal meaning of a word
What is denotation?
400
long narrative poem in formal, elevated style that chronicles heroic deeds/events important to a culture
What is epic?
400
deliberate exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
Nobody goes to that restaurant because it is too crowded
What is paradox?
400
an event that introduces the central conflict
What is inciting incident
400
non-literal meaning of a word
What is connotation?
500
theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support
What is thesis?
500
statement that seems to be self-contradictory but is actually true
What is paradox?
500
Guys are messy and unclean
What is stereotype?
500
the arrangement of items, such as furniture, props, and talent in a shot
What is staging?
500
word choice
What is diction?