Swift words:
Invective. Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or attacks.
It can be directed against a person, cause, idea, or system. It
employs a heavy use of negative emotive language. Example:
"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most
pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered
to crawl upon the surface of the earth." --Swift
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It can be directed against a person, cause, idea, or system. It
employs a heavy use of negative emotive language. Example:
"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most
pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered
to crawl upon the surface of the earth." --Swift
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
(Your free literature term for today)

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