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| 6686037485 | Ambivalent | 1) uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. 2) (Psychology) the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.WK | 0 | |
| 6686037486 | Chief | the head or leader of an organized body of people; | 1 | |
| 6686037487 | Condescending | showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority: | 2 | |
| 6686037488 | Confidential | 1) spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark, 2) indicating confidence or intimacy; imparting private matters: a confidential tone of voice. 3) having another's trust or confidence; entrusted with secrets or private affairs: a confidential secretary. | 3 | |
| 6686037489 | Confrontational | tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude. | 4 | |
| 6686037490 | Contrarian | a person who takes an opposing view, especially one who rejects the majority opinion, as in economic matters. | 5 | |
| 6686037491 | Deferential | showing deference; deferent; respectful. | 6 | |
| 6686037492 | Disdain | 1) to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn, 2) to think unworthy of notice, response, etc.; consider beneath oneself: to disdain replying to an insult. | 7 | |
| 6686037493 | Dispassionate | free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic. | 8 | |
| 6686037494 | Dramatic | 1) of or pertaining to the drama, 2) employing the form or manner of the drama, 3)characteristic of or appropriate to the drama, especially in involving conflict or contrast; vivid; moving: dramatic colors; a dramatic speech. | 9 | |
| 6686037495 | Eradicate | 1) to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate: to eradicate smallpox throughout the world, 2) to erase by rubbing or by means of a chemical solvent: to eradicate a spot, 3) to pull up by the roots: to eradicate weeds. | 10 | |
| 6686037496 | Evanescent | 1)vanishing; fading away; fleeting, 2) tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible. | 11 | |
| 6686037497 | Habitude | 1) customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude, 2) a habit or custom: traditional habitudes of kindliness and courtesy, 3) Obsolete, familiar relationship. | 12 | |
| 6686037498 | Impressionistic | 1) a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature, 2) an entertainer who does impressions | 13 | |
| 6686037499 | Informed | having or prepared with information or knowledge; apprised: an informed audience that asked intelligent questions | 14 | |
| 6686037500 | Linguistic | 1) of or belonging to language: linguistic change, 2) of or pertaining to linguistics. | 15 | |
| 6686037501 | Moralistic | 1) a person who teaches or inculcates morality, 2) a philosopher concerned with the principles of morality, 3) a person who practices morality, 4) a person concerned with regulating the morals of others, as by imposing censorship. | 16 | |
| 6686037502 | Nationalism | 1)national spirit or aspirations, 2) devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism, 3) excessive patriotism; chauvinism. | 17 | |
| 6686037503 | Objective | 1) being the object or goal of one's efforts or actions, 2)not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion, 3) intent upon or dealing with things external to the mind rather than with thoughts or feelings, as a person or a book, 4) being the object of perception or thought; belonging to the object of thought rather than to the thinking subject ( opposed to subjective). | 18 | |
| 6686037504 | Oblique | 1) neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping, 2) (of a solid) not having the axis perpendicular to the plane of the base, 3) diverging from a given straight line or course, 4) not straight or direct, as a course, 5) indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward: oblique remarks about the candidate's honesty, 6) indirectly aimed at or reached, as ends or results; deviously achieved, 7)morally, ethically, or mentally wrong; underhand; perverse, 8) Typography (of a letter). Slanting toward the right, as a form of sans-serif, gothic, or square-serif type, 9) Rhetoric. Indirect (applied to discourse in which the original words of a speaker or writer are assimilated to the language of the reporter), 10) Anatomy. Pertaining to muscles running obliquely in the body as opposed to those running transversely or longitudinally. | 19 | |
| 6686037505 | Obsolete | 1) no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression, 2) of a discarded or outmoded type; out of date: an obsolete battleship, 3) (of a linguistic form) no longer in use, especially, out of use for at least the past century. Compare archaic. | 20 | |
| 6686037506 | Parallel | 1) extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees, 2) having the same direction, course, nature, or tendency; corresponding; similar; analogous: Canada and the U.S. have many parallel economic interests, 3) Geometry (of straight lines) lying in the same plane but never meeting no matter how far extended, (of planes) having common perpendiculars, (of a single line, plane, etc.) equidistant from another or others (usually followed by to or with) | 21 | |
| 6686037507 | Preoccupation | (1 the state of being preoccupied, 2) an act of preoccupying | 22 | |
| 6686037508 | Puzzled | 1) a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort, 2) something puzzling; a puzzling question, matter, or person, 3) a puzzled or perplexed condition; bewilderment. | 23 | |
| 6686037509 | Rhetorical | 1) used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect, 2) marked by or tending to use bombast, 3) of, concerned with, or having the nature of rhetoric | 24 | |
| 6686037510 | Rigid | 1) stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal, 2) firmly fixed or set, 3) inflexible, strict, or severe: a rigid disciplinarian; rigid rules of social behavior. | 25 | |
| 6686037511 | Sentiment | 1) an attitude toward something; regard; opinion, 2) a mental feeling; emotion: a sentiment of pity, 3) refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings. | 26 | |
| 6686037512 | Skeptical | 1) a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual, 2) a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others, 3) a person who doubts the truth of a religion, especially christianity, or of important elements of it. | 27 | |
| 6686037513 | Snobbish | 1) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank, 2) having the character of a snob. | 28 | |
| 6686037514 | Sympathetic | 1) characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener, 2) acting or affected by, of the nature of, or pertaining to a special affinity or mutual relationship; congenial: With their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion, 3)looking upon with favor (often followed by to or toward ): She is sympathetic to the project. | 29 | |
| 6686037515 | Tedious | 1) marked by tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey, 2) wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker or writer; prolix. | 30 | |
| 6686037516 | Underscore | 1) to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline, as for emphasis, 2) to stress; emphasize: The recent tragedy underscores the danger of disregarding safety rules. | 31 | |
| 6686037517 | Diction (Week 3) | word choice; the choice of words for clear, effective writing | 32 | |
| 6686037518 | Syntax (Week 3) | the patterns of words in a sentence, the rules for forming grammatically correct sentences | 33 | |
| 6686037519 | Rhetoric (Week 8) | how writers use language- including tone, expression, and style | 34 | |
| 6686037520 | Tone (Week 8) | how your writing communicates your message | 35 | |
| 6686037521 | Voice (Week 8) | the author's specific writing style that encompasses his or her tendencies toward use of diction and syntax | 36 | |
| 6686037522 | Style (Week 9) | a form or character, based on the arrangement of words for clarity and the meeting the piece's purpose | 37 | |
| 6686037523 | Allusion (Week 20) | an indirect reference to past events, ideas, or objects, with an assumption that the reader already knows the information | 38 | |
| 6686037524 | Analogy (Week 20) | an implicit reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place, or event | 39 | |
| 6686037525 | Irony (Week 20) | a wide-ranging technique of detachment that draws awareness to the discrepancy between words and their meanings, between expectation and fulfillment, or, most generally, between what is and what seems to be | 40 | |
| 6686037526 | Metaphor (Week 21) | a type of trope, a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 41 | |
| 6686037527 | Cliché (Week 21) | an expression such as "turn over a new leaf" that has been used so frequently that it has lost its expressive power | 42 | |
| 6686037528 | Paradox (Week 21) | a statement that seems absurd or even contradictory on its face but often expresses a deeper truth | 43 | |
| 6686037529 | Personification (Week 22) | the use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas | 44 | |
| 6686037530 | Aristotle's Three Appeals (Week 8) | logos (appeal to reason), pathos (appeal to emotion, belief, and values), and ethos (the appeal to the credibility of the speaker or writer) | 45 | |
| 6686037531 | Rhetorical modes/strategies | 46 | ||
| 6686037532 | Comparison and contrast (Week 11, 26) | Comparison is a rhetorical strategy and method of organization in which a writer examines similarities between two people, places, ideas, or things while contrast is a rhetorical device in which a writer identifies differences between two subjects, places, persons, things or ideas. | 47 | |
| 6686037533 | Process Analysis (Week 27) | A process essay explains how to do something or how something occurs and it presents a series of steps in chronological order. | 48 | |
| 6686037534 | Classification/division (Week 28) | Division is the process of breaking a whole into parts; classification is the process of sorting individual items into categories. | 49 | |
| 6686037535 | Definition (Week 30) | A definition tells what a term means and how it differs from other terms in its class. | 50 | |
| 6686037536 | Cause and effect (Week 31) | Cause and effect analyzes why something happens. Cause-and-Effect essays examine causes, describe effects, or do both. | 51 | |
| 6686037537 | Narration (Week 23) | Narration tells a story by presenting events in an orderly, logical sequence | 52 | |
| 6686037538 | Description (Week 10, Week 24) | a statement explaining, telling, illustrating, or expressing | 53 | |
| 6686037539 | Argumentation (Week 13, 30) | Argumentative papers purpose is to bring the reader to the writer's side. Presents argument without emotion or accusation. Logical arguments are held up by level thinking and a level expression of thoughts. | 54 | |
| 6686037540 | Illustration/exemplification (Week 25) | illustration stands for an image. An image is a word or word sequence that evokes a sensory experience and it appeals to the reader's memory of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, or tasting. | 55 | |
| 6686037541 | Literary forms and genres (Week 17/18) | 56 | ||
| 6686037542 | Burlesque | a caricature or parody that mocks average or normal material (satire, farce) [noun], a bawdy, provocative show [noun], mocking a serious subject [adjective], pertaining to bawdy theater [adjective] | 57 | |
| 6686037543 | Didactic literature | literature for instruction, literature so filled with facts and teaching that the reader is bored or turned off | 58 | |
| 6686037544 | Dirge | a funeral song, a mournful song | 59 | |
| 6686037545 | Dramatic monologue | a single character's speech, common in folk ballads and poetry, where the character reveals insight to his or her life, at a dramatic turning point. | 60 | |
| 6686037546 | Dystopian literature | literature about a totalitarian society that is disguised as utopian but, in truth, is repressive and controlling; the message in the literature serves as a warning to what could be, in the future | 61 | |
| 6686037547 | Eclogue | a short poem, often a dialogue between two shepherds | 62 | |
| 6686037548 | Homily | a sermon, any contemporary spiritual conversation, a lecture that is tedious and moralizing | 63 | |
| 6686037549 | Elegy | funeral song (dirge), a melancholic or mournful poem or piece of music, a poem or piece of writing that mourns a death | 64 | |
| 6686037550 | Epitaph | an engraved statement on a gravestone, including the name, date of birth, and date of death | 65 | |
| 6686037551 | Epigram | a witty, terse expression or saying, a short satirical poem that ends with a twist | 66 | |
| 6686037552 | Parody | a piece of literature, music, or film that humorously pokes fun at a serious work (caricature, burlesque, take-off, spoof) [noun], poor imitation [noun], imitation with an intent to ridicule [verb], to poorly imitate [verb] | 67 | |
| 6686037553 | Confessional poetry | verse where an author frankly exposes his or her private distress over personal issues; the term originated in the late 1950s and early 1960s in America and usually deals with issues such as alcoholism, insanity, divorce, suicidal thoughts, and intense personal conflict | 68 | |
| 6686037554 | Anecdote | a brief, often biographical, narration of a single event (story, yarn, tale) | 69 | |
| 6686037555 | Metafiction | a fiction work that explains, discusses, or considers the qualities of fiction | 70 | |
| 6686037556 | Myth | an epic story from history with a superhuman hero; the story can be based in fantasy or reality, but earlier peoples usually believed it to be true, Imaginary people, objects, events | 71 | |
| 6686037557 | Noir | black, in film, showing characteristics of pessimism, disillusionment, somber attitude, and despair | 72 | |
| 6686037558 | Ode | a lyrical poem with rhythm that can be sung | 73 | |
| 6686037559 | Pastiche | a work that consists of borrowed materials (in part or in whole), whether in music, art, or literature (imitation, takeoff), a work of art that contains mixed materials, a hodgepodge (medley, potpourri), a spoof (parody) | 74 | |
| 6686037560 | Epistolary | experienced in a relationship through letters, designed or formatted as a compilation of letters | 75 | |
| 6686037561 | Pastoral | having the characteristics of a peaceful country life in a rural setting [adjective], in any form of art (literature, music, theater), a piece that refers to the idyllic life of shepherds quietly pasturing their sheep [adjective], having to do with a pastor of a church [adjective], a poem or play dealing with shepherds [noun], a letter or document describing the duties of a pastor [noun] | 76 | |
| 6686037562 | Catharsis | the purging of emotions through being engaged in an endeavor; getting rid of pent-up emotions | 77 | |
| 6686037563 | autobiographical novel | a novel based on the author's life that is partially fiction (with added drama beyond the author's life); the main character is based on the author, and certain points in the plot are from the author's life | 78 | |
| 6686037564 | bildungsroman | a novel based on the main character's personal growth and maturation | 79 | |
| 6686037565 | epistolary novel | a novel that is, traditionally, written as a series of letters but can also be a series of diary entries, newspaper articles, blogs, or emails | 80 | |
| 6686037566 | historical novel | a novel, either fiction or interspersed with some fact, that seeks to portray the culture and detail of a period of history | 81 | |
| 6686037567 | novel of ideas | a general category of novels that primarily addresses philosophical ideas; also a form of philosophical fiction; characters represent and discuss differing ideas and philosophies (often in dialogue within the novel); several categories of novels can be considered under the heading of "novel of ideas," such as works in science fiction, utopian literature, dystopian literature, and bildungsroman | 82 | |
| 6686037568 | novel of manners | a novel type originating in the late 1800s that has a relationship between social codes, behavior, morals, and aspirations of the characters; the conventions and ideals of the social code are the focus of the story, as well as how the characters measure up to that social code | 83 | |
| 6686037569 | picaresque novel | a novel type originating in Spain that has a main character who is a rogue; sometimes satirical, often humorous and witty, the antics of the character and his movement through society are the focus of the fiction | 84 | |
| 6686037570 | social protest novel | a novel whose story comments on and exposes a social malady | 85 | |
| 6686037571 | novel of verse/verse novel | a modern novel form using verse and poetry instead of prose | 86 | |
| 6686037572 | novella | a form of a fiction novel that runs between 10,000 and 70,000 words, typically falling between 17,000 to 40,000 words | 87 | |
| 6686037573 | comedy play | a play meant to amuse, using many forms (such as satire or musical comedy) | 88 | |
| 6686037574 | epic theatre play/epic theater | a play developed in the 1920s in Germany with distinct scenes that avoid allusion by interrupting the story line through characters directly addressing the audience with analysis, disagreement, or other commentary, with the purpose of making the audience think about the topic and draw conclusions with meaning | 89 | |
| 6686037575 | farce play | a light, humorous play not centering on characterization but on a plot with improbable situations and absurd physical humor, originating in the 1500s from impromptu buffoonery on stage | 90 | |
| 6686037576 | miracle play | one of the earliest form of plays (also called saint plays), miracle plays focus on reenacting miracles of the saints, often given in series or collection; also refers to religious plays, in general | 91 | |
| 6686037577 | morality play | popular in the 15th and 16th centuries, one of the earliest forms of allegorical plays from the medieval period where the main character meets other characters representing moral attributes who challenge the main character to choose good over evil; most of the plays are written anonymously | 92 | |
| 6686037578 | mystery play | also known as pageants (or passion plays, when referring to Jesus Christ's life), a play popular from the 10th through the 16th centuries that focused on Bible stories, particularly on Jesus' life and death, presented in cycles (or series) | 93 | |
| 6686037579 | noh drama | classical Japanese drama originating in the 14th century with masked characters and men playing female roles | 94 | |
| 6686037580 | problem play | a dramatic play with the purpose of exposing the audience to a problem and a possible solution; some of Shakespeare's plays are also considered problem plays | 95 | |
| 6686037581 | tragedy play | a play where the main character is destroyed in some way, through a personal flaw or inability to deal with disaster, misfortune, or heartbreak | 96 | |
| 6686037582 | tragicomedy | a drama (play, novel, or other work) containing both tragedy and comedy in its form | 97 | |
| 6686037583 | one-act play | a play presented in one act that may or may not have many scenes | 98 | |
| 6686037584 | black comedy | Also called dark comedy, the genre originating in 1939 and becoming popular in the 1950s and 1960s has elements of comedy, satire, and death, with the purpose of eliciting conflicting feelings of discomfort and laughter at the same time | 99 | |
| 6686037585 | Lyric | in poetry, the quality of being music-like [adjective], 2. words to a song [noun] | 100 | |
| 6686037586 | Satire | a written piece scorning, ridiculing, or spoofing social conventions | 101 | |
| 6686037587 | sentimental novel | an 18th century literary genre; a novel type that was written with a wide range of emotion in the characters and with a plot that focuses on (and is arranged around) the advancement of character emotion; the purpose of the writing is also to elicit a refined yet intense emotional response from the reader | 102 | |
| 6686037588 | Rhetoric & literary techniques (Week 20) | 103 | ||
| 6686037590 | Anagnorisis | a moment of recognition or discovery, primarily used in reference to Greek tragedy. | 104 | |
| 6686037591 | Bathos | a sudden and unexpected drop from the lofty to the trivial or excessively sentimental. | 105 | |
| 6686037592 | Caricature | a description or characterization that exaggerates or distorts a character's prominent features, usually to elicit mockery. | 106 | |
| 6686037593 | Deus ex machina | Greek for "God from the machine." The phrase originally referred to a technique in ancient tragedy in which a mechanical god was lowered onto the stage to intervene and solve the play's problems or bring the pay to a satisfactory conclusion. | 107 | |
| 6686037594 | Epiphany | a sudden, powerful, and often spiritual or life-changing realization that a character reaches in an otherwise ordinary or everyday moment. | 108 | |
| 6686037595 | Foreshadowing | an author's deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that do not develop until later in the narrative. | 109 | |
| 6686037596 | In medias res | Latin for "in the middle of things." The term refers to the technique of starting a narrative in the middle of the action. | 110 | |
| 6686037597 | Interior monologue | a record of a character's thoughts, unmediated by a narrator. Interior monologue sometimes takes the form of stream-of-consciousness narration (refer to point of view) but often is more structured and logical than stream of consciousness. | 111 | |
| 6686037598 | Invocation | a prayer for inspiration to a god or muse, usually placed at the beginning of an epic. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey both open with invocations. | 112 | |
| 6686037599 | Irony | a wide-ranging technique of detachment that draws awareness to the discrepancy between words and their meanings, between expectation and fulfillment, or, most generally, between what is and what seems to be. | 113 | |
| 6686037600 | Melodrama | the use of sentimentality, gushing emotion, or sensational action or plot twists to provoke audience or reader response. | 114 | |
| 6686037601 | Parallelism | the use of similarities between elements in a narrative (such as two characters or two plot lines). | 115 | |
| 6686037602 | Pathos | comes from the Greek word for "feeling," the quality in a work of literature that evokes high emotion, most commonly sorrow, pity, or compassion. | 116 | |
| 6686037603 | Poetic Diction | the use of specific types of words, phrases, or literary structures that are not common in contemporary speech or prose. | 117 | |
| 6686037604 | Poetic License | the liberty that authors sometimes take with ordinary rules of syntax and grammar, employing unusual vocabulary, metrical devices, or figures of speech or committing factual errors in order to strengthen a passage of writing. | 118 | |
| 6686037605 | Wit | a form of wordplay that displays cleverness or ingenuity with language. | 119 | |
| 6686037606 | Alliteration | a figure of speech in which the same sound appears at the beginning of two or more words. Alliterative words are consecutive or close to each other in the text. Example "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." | 120 | |
| 6686037607 | Allusion | a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader's mind with only a word or two. Allusion means "reference." It relies on the reader being able to understand the allusion and being familiar with all of the meaning hidden behind the words. Example "Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities." | 121 | |
| 6686037608 | Antithesis | literally means "opposite." Example "To err is human, to forgive, divine."---Alexander Pope | 122 | |
| 6686037609 | Comparison | "a rhetorical strategy and method of organization in which a writer examines similarities...between two people, places, ideas, or things." | 123 | |
| 6686037610 | Trope | a category of figures of speech that extend the literal meanings of words by inviting a comparison to other words, things, or ideas. Metaphor, metonymy, and simile are three common tropes. | 124 | |
| 6686037611 | Aposiopesis | a breaking-off of speech, usually because of rising emotion or excitement. For example, "Touch me one more time, and I swear—" | 125 | |
| 6686037612 | Apostrophe | a direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea. Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain, My Captain," written upon the death of Abraham Lincoln, is an example of apostrophe. | 126 | |
| 6686037613 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words. Example "on a proud round cloud in white high night," | 127 | |
| 6686037614 | Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds within a phrase or verse, which are not found at the beginning of words Example "inset in the course asphalt" | 128 | |
| 6686037615 | Euphony | a pleasing arrangement of sounds Example Sing to me of silent souls rising to heaven above us | 129 | |
| 6686037616 | Cacophony | the clash of discordant or harsh sounds within a sentence or phrase. Example He grunted and in a gruff voice said, "Give me that trash and I'll throw it out!" | 130 | |
| 6686037617 | Chiasmus | when two phrases [have the same] syntax . . . but the placement of words is reversed Example "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" (John F. Kennedy) | 131 | |
| 6686037618 | Cliche | an expression such as "turn over a new leaf" that has been used so frequently that it has lost its expressive power. | 132 | |
| 6686037619 | Epithet | an adjective or phrase that describes a prominent feature of a person or thing. "Richard 'the Lionheart'" and "'Shoeless' Joe Jackson" are both examples of epithets. | 133 | |
| 6686037620 | Euphemism | the use of decorous language to express vulgar or unpleasant ideas, events, or actions. For example, "passed away" [is written] instead of died"; "ethnic cleansing" [is written] instead of genocide. | 134 | |
| 6686037621 | Hyperbole | an excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact: "I've told you about it a million times already." | 135 | |
| 6686037622 | Idiom | a common expression that has acquired meaning that differs from its literal meaning, such as "it's raining cats and dogs" or "a bolt from the blue." | 136 | |
| 6686037623 | Litotes | a form of understatement in which a statement is affirmed by negating its opposite: "He is not unfriendly" [the use of a double negative]. | 137 | |
| 6686037624 | Zeugma | the use of one word in a sentence to modify two other words in the sentence, typically in two different ways Example "You held your breath and the door for me." (Alanis Morissette, "Head over Feet") | 138 | |
| 6686037625 | Metonymy | the substitution of one term for another that generally is associated with it. For example, "suits" instead of businessmen | 139 | |
| 6686037626 | Paradox | a statement that seems absurd or even contradictory on its face but often expresses a deeper truth. Example " To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up." | 140 | |
| 6686037627 | Meiosis | intentional understatement. Meiosis is the opposite of hyperbole and often employs litotes to ironic effect. Example "You know, EInstein was not a bad physicist." | 141 | |
| 6686037628 | Metaphor | the comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms "like" or "as." Example He is a bear today! Mom blew up again. | 142 | |
| 6686037629 | Mixed Metaphor | a combination of metaphors that produces a confused or contradictory image. Example "I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons." | 143 | |
| 6686037630 | Extended Metaphor | "A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem." Example "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." | 144 | |
| 6686037631 | Literary Conceit | Some reference materials use extended metaphor and literary conceit interchangeably. | 145 | |
| 6686037632 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words, such as "pop," "hiss," and "boing," that sound like the thing that they refer to. | 146 | |
| 6686037633 | Oxymoron | the association of two contrary terms, as in the expressions "same difference" and "wise fool." | 147 | |
| 6686037634 | Paralipsis | the technique of drawing attention to something by claiming not to mention it. Example "We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare." | 148 | |
| 6686037635 | Pathetic Fallacy | the attribution of human feeling or motivation to a nonhuman object, especially an object found in nature Example "The fruitful field / Laughs with abundance"—William Cowper | 149 | |
| 6686037636 | Periphrasis | an elaborate and roundabout manner of speech that uses more words than necessary. Saying "I appear to be entirely without financial resources" instead of "I'm broke" is an example. | 150 | |
| 6686037637 | Personification | the use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas. Example The words leapt off of the paper as she read the story. | 151 | |
| 6686037638 | Anthropomorphism | not a figure of speech. However, the term is placed in the Week 22 Figures of Speech reading because it is often confused with personification.Anthropomorphism is a form of personification that gives human characteristics to non-humans, primarily the gods or animals | 152 | |
| 6686037639 | Pantheism | not a figure of speech. However, the term is placed in the Week 22 Figures of Speech reading because it can be confused with the terms anthropomorphism and personification. Under pantheistic theory, only God exists and all that exists is God. There are various forms of pantheism, but the most common argues that the totality of reality - you, the computer, everything - is a part of God. | 153 | |
| 6686037640 | Pun | a play on words that exploits the similarity in sound between two words with distinctly different meanings. Example "We've run out of lemons," she said bitterly. | 154 | |
| 6686037641 | Sarcasm | a simple form of verbal irony in which it is obvious from context and tone that the speaker means the opposite of what he or she says. Sarcasm usually, but not always, expresses scorn. Commenting "that was graceful" when someone trips and falls is an example of sarcasm. | 155 | |
| 6686037642 | Simile | a comparison of two things through the use of "like" or "as." Example As agile as a monkey... As pretty as a picture... As dry as a bone... | 156 | |
| 6686037643 | Synaesthesia | the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another In other words, synaesthesia is a "mixing of the senses" Example A prickly laugh was heard. | 157 | |
| 6686037644 | Synecdoche | a form of metonymy in which a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole, for example, "my wheels" for "my car." | 158 |
