CCDS Ms. Flaxman
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| 166607792 | Ad hominem | arguments against the man, direct personal attack | |
| 166607793 | Adage | a short often witty saying that employs figurative language & folk wisdom | |
| 166607794 | Aphorism | a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, | |
| 166607795 | Anachronism | something out of time and place (ex. if someone used a pocket watch now) | |
| 166607796 | Arch | tone words (clever, saucy, irreverent) | |
| 166607797 | Bathos | insincere, overly sentimental, pretentious, (maudlin - hyperbole of this word) | |
| 166607798 | Bombast | to overly inflate, pretentious (self centered, hot air) | |
| 166607799 | Burlesque | gaudy satire (lewd) | |
| 166615872 | Circumlocution | talking around a subject or a truth | |
| 166615873 | A conceit | a witty or ingenious thought, very original idea, comparison, normally a metaphor | |
| 166615874 | Digression | to wander from the point | |
| 166615875 | Discourse | discussion, conversation | |
| 166615876 | Deductive Reasoning | reasoning from the general conclusion to the specific (or from cause to effect) | |
| 166620664 | Inductive Reasoning | reasoning from the specific to the general conclusion | |
| 166615877 | Epigraph | use of a quotation at the beginning of a literary work | |
| 166615878 | Epigram | witty, short lines (maxim/adage) | |
| 166615879 | Euphemism | To make something sound better than it is, to soften the truth (ex. to pass away instead of to die) | |
| 166615880 | Euphony | harmonious, opposite of cacophony (disharmonious) | |
| 166615881 | Exposition | background/events that leads to the main purpose of an essay (ex. TEWWG -- Nanny's history) | |
| 166615882 | Elliptical Construction | sentence deliberately omitting a word | |
| 166615883 | Epithet | an appositive without a stated subject (ex. gray eyed Athena) | |
| 166615884 | Eponymous | the title character of a literary work (ex. Gatsby) | |
| 166615885 | Exegesis | detailed | |
| 166615886 | Explication | not as detailed analysis | |
| 166615887 | Fallacy | an argument that hinges on false facts | |
| 166615888 | Farce | a silly, comical satire | |
| 166615889 | Harangue | a rant, forceful sermon | |
| 166615890 | Homily | religious sermon on a moral or religious topic | |
| 166615891 | Invective | direct verbal attack, assault | |
| 166615892 | Isocolon | A term for succession of clauses or sentences of equal length & corresponding structure | |
| 166615893 | Flummoxed | perplexed, confused | |
| 166615894 | Jargon | the language or vocabulary particular to a trade, profession or group (ex. legal speak) | |
| 166615895 | Malapropism | using the wrong word in context in a comical manner (ex. using the word "monograph" instead of "mammogram") | |
| 166615896 | Mode of discourse | structure, organizing | |
| 166615897 | Non sequitur | not following, does not make sense, not logical | |
| 166615898 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that is usually long and has the main point at the end | |
| 166615899 | Rebuttal/Refutation | response, counter arguement | |
| 166615900 | Retraction | when you take a statement back | |
| 166615901 | Simple Sentence | one independent clause (a subject, a verb, and a complete thought) | |
| 166615902 | Compound Sentence | two independent clauses joined by a conjunction | |
| 166615903 | Complex Sentence | an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses | |
| 166615904 | Subtext | what is not stated/what is implied | |
| 166615905 | Trope | Same thing as a figure of speech (image, symbol, simile, metaphor, personification) | |
| 166615906 | Syllogism | If A-->B and B-->C, then A-->C | |
| 166615907 | Verbal Irony/Sarcasm | saying the opposite of what one means | |
| 166615908 | Whimsy | an object/devise/idea that is whimsical, rooted in unreality | |
| 166615909 | Wit | clever humor | |
| 166615910 | Zeugma | the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, |
