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| 5373681106 | abstract | opposed to concrete, not quantifiable. | 0 | |
| 5373685832 | ad hominem argument | 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 issues at hand. | 1 | |
| 5373717199 | adjective | modifies, alters, changes a noun. | 2 | |
| 5373719283 | adverb | modifies, alters, changes a verb. | 3 | |
| 5373720386 | aesthetic | the study or philosophy of beauty in art, literature, and nature. | 4 | |
| 5373726602 | allegory | form of a metaphor, the meaning of a person, object, or action resides outside the story, the concrete is within the story. It is a fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts. In Paul Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, for example, the characters named Faithful, Mercy and Mr Worldly Wiseman are clearly meant to represent types of people rather than to be characters in their own rights. | 5 | |
| 5373749705 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words: example is the repeated 't' and 'c' sounds in the sentence "The tall tamarack trees shaded the cozy cabin." | 6 | |
| 5373761051 | allusion | a reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea or person. example: "she faced the challenge with Homeric courage" "Homeric" is an allusion to Homer's works THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY. | 7 | |
| 5373816088 | ambiguity, ambiguous | having more than one meaning, used in verbal, written and nonverbal communication. It is uncertain or indefinite. It is subject to more than one interpretation. example: 'the poet's use of the word is ambiguous' - to begin to discuss the multiple meanings suggested by the use of the word and to indicate there is an uncertainty of interpretation. | 8 | |
| 5373846682 | anachronism | out of time, placing something in a time where it does not belong. | 9 | |
| 5374002700 | analogy | ask a reader to think about the correspondence or resemblance between 2 things that are essentially different example "pond as smooth as a mirror'". | 10 | |
| 5374014733 | analysis | to separate into parts for inspection or evaluation. | 11 | |
| 5374016180 | anaphora | the intentional repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs. | 12 | |
| 5374020904 | anecdote | short narrative detailing the particulars of an event. | 13 | |
| 5374022914 | antagonist | the force against the protagonist, a person, nature, or the person's psyche. | 14 | |
| 5374027618 | antecedent | every pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun - the antecedent. It is the grammatical term for the noun/pronoun from which another pronoun derives its meaning. example: "The car he wanted to buy was a green one", the pronoun 'one' derives its meaning from the antecedent 'car'. | 15 | |
| 5374932011 | antihero | a protagonist who is particularly graceless, inept, stupid, or dishonest. | 16 | |
| 5374933294 | antithesis | a figure of speech, using strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. It is an opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses. example: "whereas he was boisterous, I was reserved." - it's a sentence that balances two antithetical observations. | 17 | |
| 5374944022 | aphorism | a short witty statement. | 18 | |
| 5374945121 | apology | written or spoken defense. | 19 | |
| 5374946823 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker. example: "love' is personified and addressed as though present in the sentence. "Oh love, where have you gone?" | 20 | |
| 5374950924 | apotheosis | derived from Greek word meaning to deify (make like a god); It occurs in literature when a character or thing is elevated to such a high status that it appears godlike. | 21 | |
| 5374955909 | appositive | a word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity. they are usually set off by commas. example: "The luxury train, The Orient Express, crosses Europe from Paris to Istanbul in just twenty-six hours," the name "The Orient Express" is the appositive for 'train'. | 22 | |
| 5374955910 | archetype | a blocked off memory of our past or of pre-human experience, a type of struggle or character to which a culture relates without prior knowledge. | 23 | |
| 5374956820 | artificial setting | man-made setting. | 24 | |
| 5374956821 | assonance | type of internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated. example: short o sounds in "the pot's rocky, pocked surface". | 25 | |
| 5374957632 | asyndeton | occurs when conjunctions (like and or but) that would normally connect a string of words, phrases or clauses are omitted from a sentence. example: "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 26 | |
| 5374957633 | atmosphere | the emotional feeling or mood of a place, scene or event. In Toni Morrison's BELOVED, example, the opening chapters convey a mood of loneliness and grief. | 27 | |
| 5374958385 | attitude | describes the feeling of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea. synonym for tone. | 28 | |
| 5374958386 | audience | the intended receivers for a speaker or writer's message. | 29 | |
| 5374958387 | bathos | It is false or forced emotion that is often humorous. Pathos draws upon deep emotion, where this takes emotion to such an extreme that the reader finds it humorous rather than touching. | 30 | |
| 5374959107 | begging the question | a fallacy in reasoning which omits the minor premise and goes directly to the conclusion. example: first time drivers are reckless (major premise) Steven is a first time driver (minor premise) Steven will be reckless (conclusion) To beg the question, you must omit the minor premise, therefore the syllogism breaks down. | 31 | |
| 5374959780 | bildungsroman | a coming of age novel, the story of a person's development, such as CATCHER IN THE RYE. | 32 | |
| 5902897165 | canon | an accepted list. religious canon = matthew, mark, luke, john, etc. | 33 | |
| 5902897166 | carpe diem | literally, "seize the day;" a philosophy of living for the day and not thinking about tomorrow. | 34 | |
| 5902897167 | catharsis | a moral and spiritual cleansing you receive when watching a protagonist overcome great odds to survive | 35 | |
| 5902897168 | character | a person described as an individual with reference to characterization. characterization: an imaginary person who seems life-like | 36 | |
| 5902897169 | chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. ex: susan walked in, and out rushed mary. "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." | 37 | |
| 5902897170 | chronological | in order of time; first, second, third. the simplest way to structure a narrative. | 38 | |
| 5902897171 | clause | any combination of subject and verb which makes a complete sentence. if the subject-verb combination expresses complete meaning, the clause is independent. if the subject-verb combination doesn't express complete meaning, the clause is dependent. | 39 | |
| 5903108633 | colloquial | informal conversation; it differs in grammar, vocabulary, syntax, imagery, or connotation. | 40 | |
| 5903108634 | conceit | a type of metaphor that is strikingly odd and thoughtful. ex: love compared to a motorcycle | 41 | |
| 5903108635 | concrete | opposed to abstract; quantifiable | 42 | |
| 5903108636 | concrete detail | details used in a persuasive paper which attempt to convince the reader; proof or evidence | 43 | |
| 5903108637 | confidant (male) / confidante (female) | a person who partakes little in action, is very close to the protagonist, and hears all of the intimate secrets of the protagonist. | 44 | |
| 5903108638 | conflict | protagonist/antagonist clash; anytime these two come into the same arena, there is some form of conflict; conflict may be external or internal. | 45 | |
| 5903108640 | contrast | writers often use contrasts, or oppositions, to elaborate ideas. contrasts help to expand on their ideas by allowing them to show both what a thing is and what it is not. | 46 | |
| 5903143774 | controlling image | an image or metaphor which runs throughout the work | 47 | |
| 5903143775 | crisis | the point of the highest clash | 48 | |
| 5903143776 | criticism | analysis, study and evaluation of individual works of literature. | 49 | |
| 6012303972 | deductive reasoning | reasoning from general to specific ex: students are bad drivers. aaron drives recklessly. aaron hits small animals daily. | 50 | |
| 6012303973 | descriptive detail | details in an essay which use sensory description (5 senses) therefore you analyze these descriptions by each sense. | 51 | |
| 6012303974 | detail | specifically described items placed in a work for effect and meaning | 52 | |
| 6012303975 | deus ex machina | literally "god in the machine". greek idea from when gods would come on stage to rescue the hero, now it applies to anytime the hero is saved by a miraculous or improbable event. | 53 | |
| 6012303976 | devices | speech, syntax, diction; stylistic elements collectively that produce an effect | 54 | |
| 6012303977 | diction | word choice; denotation=dictionary definition and connotation=associated ideas, concepts, emotions the word suggests | 55 | |
| 6012303978 | didactic | a teaching type of tone, usually lesson like or boring in nature (like drivers ed films) | 56 | |
| 6012303979 | digression | insertion of material not closely related to the work or subject | 57 | |
| 6012303980 | dilemma | two choices both bad or two choices either one producing a bad outcome | 58 | |
| 6012303981 | doppelgänger | literally "double goer". a mysterious twin or doubly fight against your work | 59 | |
| 6012355823 | dystopia | "bad place"; an imaginary world which was constructed to be perfect yet failed. present tendencies are carried out to their intensely unpleasant end | 60 | |
| 6012355824 | elegiac, elegy | work (of music, literature, dance, or art) that expresses sorrow. it mourns the loss of something, such as the death of a loved one | 61 | |
| 6012355825 | ellipsis/ellipse | the omission of one or more words | 62 | |
| 6012355826 | epiphany | a sudden understanding or realization which prior to this was not thought of or understood. | 63 | |
| 6012355827 | ethos | the characteristic spirit or ideal that informs a work; referring to ethnics, or values; appeal to ethnical principles. | 64 | |
| 6012355828 | euphemism | mild or unpleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea. often used to soften the impact of what is being discussed. for ex: using the word "departed" for the word "dead" | 65 | |
| 6012355829 | exposition | refers to writing or speech that is organized to explain | 66 | |
| 6248768240 | fantasy | from "fancy", usually the breaking away from reality | 67 | |
| 6248768241 | fiction | comes from the latin word meaning to invent, to form, to imagine; works of fiction can be based on actual occurrences but something has been imagined or invented in the telling of the occurrence | 68 | |
| 6248768242 | figurative language | an umbrella term for all uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison; ex: similes, metaphors, and symbols | 69 | |
| 6248768243 | figure of speech | uses of language in the non-literal sense; another way of saying figurative language | 70 | |
| 6248768244 | foreshadowing | a purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative | 71 | |
| 6248768245 | generic conventions | from "genre" or type; each type of writing uses particular conventions or techniques. ex: persuasive writing uses technique of syllogism to prove a point. | 72 | |
| 6248768246 | genre | particular type or category of writing such as tragedy, comedy, epic, historical fiction, etc. | 73 | |
| 6248768247 | grammar | a set of rules that specify how a given language is used effectively. | 74 | |
| 6248768248 | hamartia | from greek and translated in the new testament as "sin"; literally it means an error, mistake, frailty, or misstep; protagonists hamartia will cause his or her downfall. | 75 | |
| 6248768249 | hyperbole | figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis | 76 | |
| 6248768250 | image, imagery | a mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations, but there can be auditory and sensory components to imagery as well | 77 | |
| 6248768251 | independent/ dependent clause | inde-a sentence which stands alone de-a sentence which needs to be joined with another sentence in order to make sense | 78 | |
| 6248768252 | inductive reasoning | reasoning from specific to general | 79 | |
| 6248768253 | inference | to conclude by reason an idea, attitude, tone which is not directly stated by the author. | 80 | |
| 6248925960 | invective | violent verbal attack | 81 | |
| 6248925961 | in medias res | "in the midst of things"; starting a story in the middle of the action. later the first part will be revealed | 82 | |
| 6248925962 | inference | to conclude an idea, attitude, or tone that isn't directly stated in the text. | 83 | |
| 6248925963 | irony, itonic | when a situation produces an outcome that is the opposite of what is expected | 84 | |
| 6248925964 | juxtaposition | when two contrasting things--ideas, words, or sentence elements--are placed next to eachother for comparison | 85 | |
| 6248925965 | kitsch | "gaudy trash"; shallow, flashy art designed to have a mass, commercial appeal | 86 | |
| 6248925966 | language | the style of the sentence and the vocab used in conversation and written communication | 87 | |
| 6248925967 | linking verb | a verb (am, is, are, was, be, being, been, has been) which joins a subject to a predicate nominative or predicate adjective. | 88 | |
| 6248925968 | litotes | figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite; a special form of understatement, where the surface denial serves, through ironic contrast, to reinforce the underlying assertion. ex: "not uncommon" means "frequent" | 89 | |
| 6249178743 | logos | the use of reason as a controlling principle in an arguement | 90 | |
| 6249178744 | mechanics | any form of sentence regulation which aides in interpretation; period, comma, hyphen, question mark, capitalization, etc. | 91 | |
| 6249178745 | metaphor | two unlike things are completed directly; saying one thing is something else | 92 | |
| 6249178746 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. ex: crown=royalty | 93 | |
| 6249178747 | microcosm | "small world" representing an entire idea through a small situation or conflict | 94 | |
| 6249178748 | mood/atmosphere | the prevailing or dominant feeling of a work, scene, or event | 95 | |
| 6249178749 | motif | a simple device that serves as a basis for explained narrative; recurring feature in the work | 96 | |
| 6249178750 | narrative devices | ordering of events, w/holding info until a climatic moment and all tools the story teller used to prograde the story line. | 97 | |
| 6249178751 | narrative techniques | the "style" of the story; the writers order of events and details. | 98 | |
| 6249178752 | natural setting | all setting that is produced through nature including weather and light/darkness | 99 | |
| 6249191542 | noun | any name of a person, place, or thing | 100 | |
| 6321172365 | onomatopoeia | an effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning | 101 | |
| 6321172366 | overview | brief summary of a while work | 102 | |
| 6321172367 | oxymoron | combines two contradictory words in one expression | 103 | |
| 6321172368 | pacing or narrative pacing | the speed of a story's action, dialogue, or narration | 104 | |
| 6321249500 | paradox | seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth | 105 | |
| 6321249501 | parallelism | literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures (phrases, clauses, sentences) in a series in order to develop an argument or emphasize an idea | 106 | |
| 6321249502 | parody | an effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing an imitation of the work or of the authors style | 107 | |
| 6321473246 | pathos | appeal to emotion, sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion | 108 | |
| 6321473247 | pedantic | bookish and scholarly tone; often dull and boring | 109 | |
| 6321473248 | periodic sentence | a sentence not grammatically complete until the end; dependent clause at beginning and independent clause at the end. | 110 | |
| 6321473249 | person | describes the relationship of a writer or speaker to an audience by examining the pronouns that are used •first person(i,we) •second person(you) •third person(he,she) | 111 | |
| 6321473250 | persona | character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text | 112 | |
| 6321473251 | personification | ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities | 113 | |
| 6321524112 | persuasive devices | devices used in the writing mode of persuasion; strong connotations, order of intensity from lesser to greater, the logic of the argument | 114 | |
| 6322244782 | plagiarism | literary theft | 115 | |
| 6322244783 | plot | framework upon which a story is placed; chronological, flashback, in medias res, or others | 116 | |
| 6322244784 | point of view | perspective from which a story is told | 117 | |
| 6322244785 | polysyndeton | use of multiple conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 118 | |
| 6322244786 | predicate | the verb part of the sentence | 119 | |
| 6322244787 | predicate adjective | an adjective in the predicate which modifies the subject; must follow a linking verb | 120 | |
| 6322244788 | predicate nominative | a noun in the predicate that renames the subject; must follow a linking verb | 121 | |
| 6322244789 | pronoun | a word which takes the place of a noun to prevent repetition or to act as the subject of a clause | 122 | |
| 6322244790 | protagonist | main character of a work who has some type of contest to complete | 123 | |
| 6322244791 | pun | a play on words | 124 | |
| 6322244792 | realism | being as close to reality as possible | 125 | |
| 6322244793 | repetition | reiteration of a word, sound, phrase, or idea for emphasis | 126 | |
| 6322244794 | resources of language | an authors use of fiction, syntax, sentence structure, and figures of speech to produce and effect | 127 | |
| 6322244795 | rhetoric; rhetorical purpose | the art and logic of a written or spoken argument | 128 | |
| 6322244796 | rhetorical, or stylistic, devices | the specific language tools that an author uses to carry out a rhetorical strategy ex: allusion, diction, imagery, syntax, repetition, and figurative language) | 129 | |
| 6322244797 | rhetorical features | all of the parts of tone: diction, imagery, details, language, and sentence structure | 130 | |
| 6322291810 | rhetorical question | question asked for the stake of the argument; no direct answer needed | 131 | |
| 6322291811 | rhetorical shift | changing from one tone, attitude, or distance to another | 132 | |
| 6322291812 | rhetorical, or narrative, strategy | plan of action or movement to achieve a d goal | 133 | |
| 6322291813 | rhetorical structure | to analyze study, and evaluates rhetorical structure | 134 | |
| 6526582744 | sarcasm | a bitter expression of disapproval; sometimes intended to be harsh and hurtful, levels of intensity exist | 135 | |
| 6526582745 | satire | to ridicule or mock ideas, persons, events, or doctrines, or to make fun of human foibles or weaknesses. | 136 | |
| 6526582746 | selection of detail | the specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene of narrative. | 137 | |
| 6526582747 | sentence structure | sentence length: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, phrases, repetition, altered word order | 138 | |
| 6526582748 | setting | the time and place the events in the work occur. aspects of setting include: | 139 |
