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| Greek for "teaching", has the primary aim of teaching/instructing, esp. teaching of moral/ethical principles | ||
| Greek for "good speech", more agreeable/less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words/concepts; may be used to adhere to standards of social/political correctness or add humor/ironic understatement; associated diction | ||
| writing/speech not intended to carry a literal meaning; usually meant to be imaginative and vivid | ||
| device used to produce figurative language, many compare dissimilar things (examples: apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement) | ||
| the traditions for each genre; help to define each genre; (example: they differentiate between and essay and journalistic writing) | ||
| sermon; any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | ||
| a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration/overstatement, having a comical/serious effect and producing irony | ||
| the sensory details/figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions, uses terms related to the five senses; total of all word pictures in a work | ||
| draw a reasonable conclusion from information presented | ||
| contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant; difference between what appears to be and what actually is true | ||
| type of sentence in which the main clause is followed by subordinate clauses/phrases that supply additional detail | ||
| figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a word/phrase closely associated with it (similar to synecdoche) | ||
| deals with verbal units and a speaker's attitude | ||
| prevailing atmosphere/emotional aura of a work | ||
| the grammatical/rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity; an organizing force to attract the reader's attention, add emphasis and organization, or to provide a musical rhythm | ||
| word that closely imitates the style/content of another with the specific aim of comic affect and/or ridicule (comedy- distorts/exaggerates distinctive features of the original; ridicule- mimics the work by repeating and borrowing words, phrases, or characteristics to illuminate weaknesses in the original) | ||
| quality of a literary work/passage which appeals to the reader's/viewer's emotions (esp. pity, compassion, and sympathy) | ||
| special type of personification in which inanimate aspects of nature are represented as having human qualities/feelings | ||
| adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | ||
| (opposite of loose sentence) sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end, usually preceded by subordinate clauses/phrases |
