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homily
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a sermon on a religious topic
2
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encomium
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a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly
3
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maxim
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a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct
4
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situational irony
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a situation where the outcome is incongruous with what was expected
5
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proleptic irony
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the reader or audience suspects that something a character says might prove to be contradicted undermined by events later in the text
6
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epigram
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a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and memorable way
7
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authority
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an authoritative writer on a topic, cited to give an argument greater weight
8
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verbal irony
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a statement in which the meaning that a speaker employs is sharply different from the meaning that is ostensibly expressed
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