All these writing terms. What do they mean, anyway?

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Should you learn them all?

Think of them as your tool chest. Learn how to “operate” them and keep them sharp and tidy. Then it’s up to you when you pull them out and put to best use. Or not.

However, I think it’s ironic that I can’t understand this definition of irony from Merriam-Webster.com:

: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other’s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning.
Ow.