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Concision – Writing principle of eliminating redundancy
Connotation – Cultural or emotional association
Dramatic irony – Rhetorical device and literary technique
Iceberg theory – Writing technique coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway
Innuendo – A suggestive remark
Implication – Information conveyed verbally yet not literally
Meta-communication – secondary communication (including indirect cues) about how a piece of information is meant to be interpreted
Pragmatics – Branch of linguistics and semiotics relating context to meaning
Speech act – Utterance that serves a performative function
Steganography – Hiding messages in other messages