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Just to give a bit more insight into positive and negative connotations (in case anyone finds it useful :)):
  • A positive connotation constitutes the good feeling or emotion that is associated with a particular word.
  • A negative connotation constitutes the bad feeling or emotion that is associated with a particular word.
Examples of positive connotations include:
  • frugal
  • interested
  • confident
  • easygoing
  • dedicated
  • driven
Examples of negative connotations include:
  • arrogant
  • cheap
  • lazy
  • stubborn
  • nosy
  • pushy
 

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ok so basically the bs'ing technique really really worked for my short answers
i found that i was not only doing better ( legit saying what first came to my mind) but also completing section I on time
id like to thank @uniqueusername1 and @iwanttodogoodinschool u guys are legends for rlly drilling the technique of bs'ing on here AHAHAHAH
HAHAHA omg glad it worked!
 

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drop your go-to techniques for when you can't find any in the texts 😭
mine are imagery, symbolism, tone, modality, first/second/third person ...
what else can be used?
Imagery, polysyndeton/asyndeton, first/second/third person, alliteration...I fall back onto these when I can’t think of/find more of the “sophisticated” ones
for images salience, vectors and colour 😂
 

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Imagery, polysyndeton/asyndeton, first/second/third person, alliteration...I fall back onto these when I can’t think of/find more of the “sophisticated” ones
for images salience, vectors and colour 😂
oo what would the more sophisticated ones be?
 

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Boys lets get these fake techniques circulating so they become real. If your feeling stuck use these techniques:

Metamorphium is when a sentence has five words or more. E.g. Her name was Jemamine the great.

Xelongation is when a sentence's first word begins with a vowel. E.g. Abigail's pants were green.

With these techniques we'll become invincible.

I'll just publish them on the urban dictionary real quick.
 
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oo what would the more sophisticated ones be?
Sophisticated...well they’re probably not THAT sophisticated but I guess things like allusion, epithet, epiphany, juxtaposition/paradox/oxymoron, truncated phrases, anaphora, motifs, metaphors/allegory, pathetic fallacy, tautology, repetition etc

The ones I’d say are probably that step up would be chiasmus, epizeuxis, symploce, antithesis...but these are a bit more niche

Edit: Just remembered synecdoche and metonymy as well
 
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For images you can also use chiaroscuro (contrast between light and dark) which basically applies everywhere pretty much
Oh wow! Haven’t heard of that one, thanks! 😊
 

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