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• allegory go
  an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
  
• analysis go
  the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'
  
• bathos go
  triteness or triviality of style
  
• black humor, black humour go
  the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
  
• device go
  something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
  
• fluency, smoothness, eloquence go
  powerful and effective language
  
• euphuism go
  any artificially elegant style of language
  
• flatness go
  a want of animation or brilliance
  
• expression, formulation go
  the style of expressing yourself
  
• ornateness, rhetoric, grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence go
  high-flown style
  
• headlinese go
  using the abbreviated style of headline writers
  
• jargon go
  specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  
• journalese go
  the style in which newspapers are written
  
• legalese go
  a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
  
• delivery, speech, manner of speaking go
  your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
  
• genre, music genre, musical genre, musical style go
  an expressive style of music
  
• officialese go
  the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure
  
• pathos go
  a style that has the power to evoke feelings
  
• prose go
  matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
  
• rhetoric go
  using language effectively to please or persuade
  
• coarseness, saltiness go
  language or humor that is down-to-earth
  
• self-expression go
  the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities)
  
• sesquipedality go
  using long words
  
• terseness go
  a neatly short and concise expressive style
  
• turn of phrase, turn of expression go
  a distinctive spoken or written expression
  
• vein go
  a distinctive style or manner
  
• verboseness, verbosity go
  an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
  
• genre, writing style, literary genre go
  a style of expressing yourself in writing
  
• poetry go
  any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling