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| 232060581 | ad hominem | attacking the emotion rather than reason; against the person rather than the arg | |
| 232060582 | allegory | using characters of story elements to symbolically represent an abstraction. ie. personify hope or freedom. deals with moral truth about humanity | |
| 232060583 | allusion | (in)direct ref to something that is commonly known (hitler, noah, atlantis) | |
| 232060584 | ambiguity | multiple meanings of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | |
| 232060585 | analogy | comparison btw 2 things. Can explain something unfamiliar or make writing better | |
| 232060586 | antecedent | word, clause or phrase referred to by a pronoun | |
| 232060587 | antithesis | a figure of speech involving a contradiction within a sentence structure | |
| 232060588 | aphorism | general truth or moral principle | |
| 232060589 | apostrophe | figure of speech that address an absent or imaginary person or abstraction (love) | |
| 232060590 | atmosphere | mood | |
| 232060591 | caricature | an exaggeration for comic or grotesque effect | |
| 232060592 | chiasmus | inverted parallelism. ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country | |
| 232060593 | clause | subject+verb | |
| 232060594 | colloquialism | slang/informality in writing | |
| 232060595 | conceit | fanciful expression displaying intellectual cleverness due to the unusual comparison being made | |
| 232060596 | connotation | implied meaning of a word | |
| 232060597 | denotation | literal meaning of a word | |
| 232060598 | diction | word choice | |
| 232060599 | didactic | instructive, esp moral or ethical principles | |
| 232060600 | euphemism | less offensive substitution words. ie "earthly remains" v "corpse" | |
| 232060601 | extended metaphor | metaphor of great length | |
| 232060602 | figurative language | writing that isn't literal and is imaginative and vivid | |
| 232060603 | figure of speech | device to produce figurative language ie: apostrophe, irony, simile, etc | |
| 232060604 | generic conventions | traditions for each genre | |
| 232060605 | genre | major category for literature prose, poetry, and drama | |
| 232060606 | homily | sermon, serious talk involving moral or spiritual advice | |
| 232060607 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration. often comic. often ironic | |
| 232060608 | imagery | sensory details to arouse emotion or rep abstractions. relates to 5 sense | |
| 232060609 | inference | to draw a reasonable conclusion from presented info | |
| 232060610 | invective | emotionally violent attack w/ abusive language | |
| 232060611 | irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant, what appears to be and truth 1. verbal- words state opposite of true meaning 2. situational- events turn out the opposite way that was expected 3. dramatic- facts are unknown to a character but known to the reader or other characters | |
| 232060612 | juxtaposition | placing dissimilar things side by side for comparison | |
| 232060613 | loose sentence | independent clause, then dependent grammatical units | |
| 232060614 | metaphor | comparing unlike things for similarity | |
| 232060615 | metonymy | substituted name white house declared vs president declared | |
| 232060616 | mood | 1. grammar. indicative vs subjunctive | |
| 242870718 | narrative | the telling of a story or an account of events | |
| 242870719 | onomatopoeia | when a word sounds like itself | |
| 242870720 | oxymoron | when the author groups contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. "jumbo shrimp" | |
| 242870721 | paradox | something that seems self-contradictory, but contains some degree of truth. "fair is foul and foul is fair" | |
| 242870722 | parallelism | framing of words, sentences, and paragraphs to give structural similarity. "to strive, to seek, to find, not to yield | |
| 242870723 | parody | something that closely resembles the original, but mimics the work to repeat things that illuminates the weaknesses in the original for comic effect | |
| 242870724 | pedantic | an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly | |
| 242870725 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | |
| 242870726 | personification | a figure of speech when you describe animals, abstractions, or objects with human emotion | |
| 242870727 | point of view | perspective from which story is told | |
| 242870728 | 1st person narrator | "I" and is character in story | |
| 242870729 | 3rd person omniscient | god-like, all-knowing, can reveal what each character thinks at any given moment | |
| 242870730 | 3rd person limited omniscient | presents the thoughts and feelings of only one character, and the only the actions of the others | |
| 253063311 | predicate adjectives | adjective(s) clause that follows a linking verb. in predicate, modifies/ describes subject | |
| 253063312 | predicate nominative | noun(s) that rename the subject, in predicate after linking verb. | |
| 253063313 | prose | division of genre. fiction and nonfiction. anything thats not drama or poetry | |
| 253063314 | repetition | parallelism. duplication of any element of language | |
| 253063315 | rhetoric | principles governing effective writing | |
| 253063316 | rhetoric appeal | device to sway audiences attention | |
| 253063317 | logos | logical reasoning | |
| 253063318 | ethos | establishes credibility in the speaker, sets up believability | |
| 253063319 | pathos | appeals to emotions | |
| 253063320 | rhetorical modes | variety, convention, and purposes of writing | |
| 253063321 | exposition | explain and analyze information | |
| 253063322 | argumentation | prove the validity of an idea. ie persuasive writing | |
| 253063323 | description | recreate, invent, or visual present a person, action, place, etc so the reader can picture it. can be subjective or objective | |
| 253063324 | narration | to tell a story | |
| 253063325 | rhetorical question | question that doesn't expect a reply | |
| 253063326 | sarcasm | bitter, caustic language to hurt or ridicule something. may be irony, but not always | |
| 257539562 | satire | style of writing that targets vices or conventions for reform or ridicule. often humorous and thought-provoking | |
| 257539563 | simile | comparison using like or as | |
| 257539564 | 1. style | evaluation of sum of choices in diction, syntax, figurative, language, etc. | |
| 257539565 | 2. style | classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors. can define period | |
| 257539566 | subject complement | the word that follows a linking verb and completes the subject by renaming or describing it. | |
| 257539567 | subordinate clause | subject+verb, but cannot stand alone.depends on main clause to complete meaning | |
| 257539568 | syllogism | deductive system of formal logic. two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. the premises must be valid | |
| 257539569 | symbolism | anything that represents or stands for something else | |
| 257539570 | natural symbols | use objects and occurrences from nature to represent ideas commonly associated with them. (dawn=hope) | |
| 257539571 | conventional symbols | have been invested with meaning by a group (religious, national, group symbols) | |
| 257539572 | Literary symbols | found in variety of works and generally recognized. can be more complicated. | |
| 264958323 | syntax | the way an author chooses to use groups of words. classify what kind of sentences the author uses, then determine how the author's choices amplify meaning | |
| 264958324 | theme | the central idea or message or a work, the insight it offers into lyfe | |
| 264958325 | thesis | the sentence(s) that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition | |
| 264958326 | tone | author's attitude toward material and/or audience | |
| 264958327 | transition | a word/phrase that links different ideas; shift | |
| 264958328 | understatement | ironic minimizing of fact | |
| 264958329 | litotes | affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite. "he was not averse to a drink" | |
| 264958330 | meiosis | something is referred to terms less important than it really deserves | |
| 264958331 | wit | intellectually amusing language, quick perception |
