A warning or indication on a future event, like a subtle hint of what's to happen later.
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Plosives
A 'plosive' sound. Think of an explosion- like a BANG! in a word. The 3 basic, unvoices plosives are t, k and p. The 3 other voiced plosives are d, g and b.
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Pleonasm
It's a bit like tautology in that it's the use of completely unnecessary words to describe something. Basically, it's an adjective or adverb.
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Word positioning
You're not really going to find this in a language like English, but in Latin it's the changing of the word order in a sentence to create a certain effect.
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Polysyndeton
It's a bit of a long word, but it's ancient Greek for 'many', apparently. This is the deliberate insertion of conjunctions (words like but and and) into a sentence to slow it down a bit.
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Pun
This is the best technique EVER! It's basically wordplay, a joke. Why did the banana go to the doctor? He wasn't PEELING well! (Geddit?)
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Short phrases
These are used a lot in more contemporary literature written from a first person point of view.
A short phrase isn't really a sentence because it doesn't have a verb or a subject, but it's still a meaningful string of words.
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Liquid consonants
This is a hard one to define. Basically it's a sound when (I quote): "The tongue produces a partial closure in the mouth resulting in a .... vowel-like consonant".
Basically it's half a verb half a consonant with your mouth half-closed. Like L or R. (The
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Assonance
BASICALLY it's the repetition of vowel sounds in a word. Example? (It's supposed to be written like this):
Str a nger d a nger
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Onomatapoeia
When a word reflects a sound made. For example, the word 'BANG!' sounds like a bang (well, it does when you shout it).
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Anaphora
This is basically the use of pronouns to avoid repeating a name over and over and over and over. It can also be the use of repeating a word or phrase in a text for a certain effect, for example: Martin Luther King Jr's speech when he says 'Let freedom rin
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Anticlimax
The rubbish end of a good movie. Like in Soy Luna in like the 3rd last episode they rush pretty much everyone into falling in love because they needed to finish the series.
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Tautology
The repeating of words but NOT like anaphora. Tautology is typically seen as a fault. It's like you have a really good, really perfect essay about Cyrus's treatment of his prisoners
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Juxtapositioning
There are two possible uses for this one. Grammatically, juxtapositioning is getting rid of a conjunction (but, and) and the phrase still making sense.
More commonly, juxtapose is the contrast of two opposites right next to each other. For example, "All'
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Alliteration
Alliteration is one sound repeated throughout a phrase. "Quick question" is an example of alliteration because of the repeated qu- sound.
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Sibilance
The oddly specific word for alliteration but with a 'S' or 'SH' sound.
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Front
A 'plosive' sound. Think of an explosion- like a BANG! in a word. The 3 basic, unvoices plosives are t, k and p. The 3 other voiced plosives are d, g and b.
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Plosives
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Front
It's a bit like tautology in that it's the use of completely unnecessary words to describe something. Basically, it's an adjective or adverb.
Back
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Front
You're not really going to find this in a language like English, but in Latin it's the changing of the word order in a sentence to create a certain effect.
Back
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Front
It's a bit of a long word, but it's ancient Greek for 'many', apparently. This is the deliberate insertion of conjunctions (words like but and and) into a sentence to slow it down a bit.
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