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Using Words Effectively
Adapting Language Style
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Drama
100
Use of a keyword or phrase more than once for empasis.
What is Repetition?
100
A book containing a store of words and their synonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
100
A variety of English that includes words and phrases used by a specific ethnic group.
What is Ethnic Vernacular?
100
Language that deviates from the ordinary, expected meanings of words to make a description or comparison unique, vivid, and memorable.
What is Figure of Speech?
100
Leaving out a word or phrase the listener expects to hear.
What is Omission?
200
Use of the same grammatical pattern for two or more clauses or sentences.
What is Parallelism?
200
The literal meaning of a word.
What is Denotation?
200
A word or phrase used uniquely by speakers in one part of a country.
What is Regionalism?
200
An implied comparison of two things or conncepts that are similar in some vital way.
What is Metaphor?
200
Reversal of the normal word order of a phrase or sentence.
What is Inversion?
300
Opposition, such as that used in two-part sentences whose parts have parallel structures but contrasting meanings.
What is Antithesis?
300
The meaning listeners associate with a word, based on past experience.
What is Connotation?
300
The specialized language of a profession or hobby.
What is Jargon?
300
A comparison between two things that uses the word like or as.
What is Simile?
300
Withholding a key word or phrase until the end of a sentence.
What is Suspension?
400
The repition of a consonant sound (usually the first constant) several times in a phrase, clause, or sentence.
What is Aliteration?
400
The attribution of human qualities to inanimate things or ideas.
What is Personification?
400
The English taught by schools and used in media, business, and goverment in the United States.
What is Standard U.S. English?
400
The attribution of human qualities to inanimate things or ideas.
What is Personification?