<p>Antithesis: Direct opposite of something</p>
<p>euphemism</p>
<p>I thought colloqiuialism was more like using informal writing to appear more characteristic of a time period or region (i.e. joseph in wuthering heights)???.....I'm quite possibly dead wrong but I didn't know it had anything to do with showing a comfortable attitude.</p>
<p>euphemism= using words to temper something's meaning (?)</p>
<p>fut, your definition is correct too. Huckleberry Finn comes to mind for colloquialism, as the characters' speech is characteristic of old Southern speech. </p>
<p>And yeah, euphemism is pretty easy- 'passing away' instead of death, for example.</p>
<p>Parallelism?</p>
<p>parallelism was an option on a practice exam I took and I had no idea what is was!</p>
<p>ps- sorry for not posting a new term</p>
<p>Parallelism: Similarities between grammatical structures of word order in tow phrases to compare/contrast them ...
OR
Similarities between two elements in a narrative (such as two characters)</p>
<p>Deux es machina</p>
<p>Deus ex machina - an improbable device used to resolve a dilemma (usually regarding plot)</p>
<p>rhetoric</p>
<p>mmm nevermind spets- i got my terms confused. your definition is correct! :)</p>
<p>(I thought litotes was an understatment---opposite of a hyperbole)</p>
<p>Rhetoric (very broadly put) is persuasion through the use of language.</p>
<p>In medias res</p>
<p>in medias res- when a literary work opens in the middle of the action</p>
<p>anaphora</p>
<p>Asyndeton
Villanelle
Anaphora</p>
<p>asyndeton- the deliberate omission of a conjunction
villanelle- 19 line lyric...five tercets and a quatrain
anaphora- repetition of the first word of a verse</p>
<p>i propose we change the game up a little bit..USEFUL WORDS IN ANALYZING TONE</p>
<p>But we haven't gotten to "zeugma" yet.</p>
<p>very good point..</p>
<p>zeugma...a word used with dif meanings? I have an example that can better illustrate:</p>
<p>"Your argument is sound...nothing but sound." -Ben Franklin I think.</p>
<p>Dual meaning? or something not sure how to explain but there's the example.....</p>
<p>ok--zeugma: "We called it magic; we called it tragic; we called it quits!</p>
<p>I think my example better illustrates zeugma. :)</p>
<p>"Your argument is sound...nothing but sound." -Ben Franklin I think. </p>
<p>Reminds me of: "I want nothing from you but your silence, and precious little of that." Gen. Sherman?</p>
<p>Thrall, Hibbard, and Holman gives: "I had fancied you were gone down to cultivate matrinony and your estate in the country."
by Goldsmith</p>