Page 5 - Writing Terms
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Run the bases by answer with the correct writing term.
Topics of this game:
- A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.
- _______ is when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure. In its most basic usage, parallelism provides a phrase with balance and clarity.
- A literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule.
- An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic or bookish.
- A periodic sentence is a stylistic device employed at the sentence level, described as one that is not complete grammatically or semantically before the final clause or phrase.
- The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
- Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions.
- The place from which, or way in which, something is viewed or considered; standpoint; the viewpoint from which a story is narrated.
