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| This term comes from the Latin phrase meaning "to the man." It refers to an argument that attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issue on hand. | ||
| A fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts. | ||
| Repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the begining of words. | ||
| A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea or person. | ||
| When something is ambiguous, it is uncertain or indefinite; it is subject to more tha one interperation. | ||
| Asks a reader to think about the correspondence between two things that are essentially different. | ||
| Every pronoun refers back to a pervious noun or pronoun-is the grammatical term for the noun of pronoun from which another pronoun dervices its meaning. | ||
| An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses. | ||
| A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed bya speaker. | ||
| A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker. | ||
| Derived from the Greek qord meaning to deify. Occurs in literature when a character or a thing is elevated to such a high status that it appears godlike. | ||
| Word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity. Usually set off by commas. | ||
| Type of internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated. | ||
| Occurs when the the conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted froma sentence. | ||
| Emotional feeling or mood of a place, scene or event. | ||
| Describes the feeling of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person or idea. | ||
| False or forced emotion that is often humorous. | ||
| Help writers to expand on their ideas by allowing them to show both what a thing is and what it is not. | ||
| Refers to the author's choice of words. | ||
| Work (of music, literature, dance or art) that expresses sorrow. It mourns the loss of something, such as the death. | ||
| Characteristic spirit or ideal that informs a work. Also refers more generally to ethics or values | ||
| A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitues for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea. Often used to soften the impact of what is being discusses. | ||
| Refers to writing or speech that is organized to explain. | ||
| Comes from the Latin word meaning invent, to form, to imagine.Can be based on actual occurences, but theit status means tha tsomething has been imagined or invtented in telling of the occurence. | ||
| Umbrella term for all uses of language that imply and imaginative comparision. | ||
| Purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative. | ||
| Set of rules that specify how a given language is used effectively. | ||
| Figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis. The emphasis is on exaggeration rather than literal representation. Is the opposite of understatment. | ||
| A mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations, but there can be auditory and sensory components as well. Nearly all writing depends on this to be effective and interesting. | ||
| Occurs when a situation produces an oiutcome that is opposite of what is expected. | ||
| When to contrasting things-ideas, words, or sentence elements-are placed next to each other for compraison. | ||
| Refers to the use of reason as a controlling prinicple in an argument. | ||
| Play on words | ||
| Reiteration of a word or phrase | ||
| Art and logic of a written or spoken argument | ||
| Are the specific language tolls an author uses to carry out a rhetocial stragety | ||
| A question that is asked for the sake of argument. No direct answer is provided. | ||
| To ridicule or mock idea, preson or events, or to make fun of human foibles. | ||
| The specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative are referred to as the selection of detail. | ||
| Compares one thing with another using the words "like or "as" | ||
| Narrator of a story | ||
| A form of deductive reasoning in which pieces of evidence are used to create a new conclusion. | ||
| Something that stands for something else | ||
| A word that has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another word. | ||
| Refres to the way words are arranged in a sentence. | ||
| In a work of literature, a feeling of excitment and expectation the reader or audience feels because of conflic, mood or tension of the work | ||
| Describes the way the elements of a work of prose or poetry are joined together | ||
| Of a work is usually considered the centeral idea | ||
| Is the way the author presents a subject | ||
| Author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves | ||
| How the speaker of a literary work presents himself to the reader determines this | ||
| Particular breech of sense in a sentence. |
