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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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A Renaissance ideal of appearing to create art effortlessly and gracefully to demonstrate one's immense skill.

Domain: Art history; Category: Renaissance Collected Term

Cataphora refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression. Cataphora is the opposite of anaphora, a reference forward as opposed to backward in ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques Collected Term

Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. In other words, the clauses display inverted ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques Collected Term

Dysphemism is the use of a harsh, more offensive word instead of one considered less harsh. Dysphemism is often contrasted with euphemism. Dysphemisms are generally used to shock or ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques Collected Term

An epigram refers to a concise, witty, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The origin of the word epigram is Greek, from epigraphein (epi- + graphein to write). Examples: "I ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques Collected Term

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary techniques Collected Term

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