A COMPARISON WITHOUT USING LIKE OR AS, SIMILE, METAPHOR, INFERENCE, EXAGERATION TO EXPRESS STRONG EMOTION, MAKE A POINT, OR EVOKE HUMOR, INFERENCE, ANTITHESIS, HYPERBOLE, LANGUAGE THAT APPEALS TO THE SENSES, PATHOS, IMAGERY, ETHOS, TWO OPPOSITE IDEAS PUT TOGETHER IN A SENTENCE TO ACHIVE A CONTRASTING EFFECT, ANTITHESIS, IRONY, METAPHOR, REPETITION OF THE SAME LETTER OR SOUND, ALLITERATION, ANAPHORA, SYMBOL, USE OF WORDS TO CONVEY A MEANING THAT IS OPPOSITE OF ITS LITTERAL MEANING, DICTION, TONE, IRONY, AN APPEAL TO LOGIC- USING FACTS, STATISTICS TO PROVE ARGUMENT, ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS, AN APPEAL TO ETHICS- CREDIBILITY OF SOURCE, ETHOS, LOGOS, PATOS, A PLAY ON WORDS, IRONY, PUN, DICTION, THE ART OF PERSUASION, DICTION, LOGOS, RHETORIC, A THING THAT REPRESENTS OR STANDS FOR SOMETHING ELSE, TONE, METAPHOR, SYMBOL, AN AUTHOR´S ATTITUDE TOWARDS HIS/HER SUBJECT, RHETORIC, LOGOS, TONE, REPETITION OF THE FIRST PART OF THE SENTENCE THROUGHOUT THE PIECE, ALLITERATION, ANAPHORA, SYMBOL, Which device asks a question without expecting an answer?, Understatement, Rhetorical question, Analogy, Oxymoron, Which device deliberately understates a situation for effect?, Metonymy, Satire, Understatement, Apostrophe, Which device addresses an absent person or abstract idea directly?, Tone, Synecdoche, Logos, Apostrophe, Which device softens a harsh or unpleasant idea?, Hyperbole, Pun, Euphemism, Allusion, Which device refers to something famous outside the text?, Allusion, Metaphor, Irony, Pathos, Which device uses a related word to stand for something?, Metonymy, Ethos, Simile, Imagery, Which device lets a part represent the whole?, Diction, Synecdoche, Anaphora, Personification, Which device repeats the end of one clause at the start of the next?, Satire, Oxymoron, Pathos, Anadiplosis, Which device omits conjunctions for a quick, forceful effect?, Euphemism, Persona, Asyndeton, Polysyndeton, Which device uses many conjunctions for emphasis?, Polysyndeton, Litotes, Asyndeton, Allusion, Which device states a positive idea by negating its opposite?, Hyperbole, Litotes, Logos, Symbolism, Which device repeats vowel sounds within nearby words?, Pun, Assonance, Alliteration, Synecdoche, Which device creates a brief, contradictory phrase like 'deafening silence'?, Analogy, Paradox, Imagery, Oxymoron, Which device appeals to emotion in an audience?, Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Diction

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