7893774405 | Syntax | The arrangement of words | 0 | |
7893774406 | Diction | word choice | 1 | |
7893774407 | Connotation | The associative meanings of a word or phrase | 2 | |
7893774408 | Dialect | Using the Native and\or informal language of a country or play | 3 | |
7893774409 | Euphemism | Using an inoffensive term or phrase in place of an offensive on | 4 | |
7893774410 | Shift* | A change in meaning and \or tone from one point in the text to another | 5 | |
7893774411 | Imagery ** | Mental pictures | 6 | |
7893774412 | Synesthesia | One sense informs another | 7 | |
7896109625 | Ethos | An appeal to one's credibility | 8 | |
7970070995 | Logos | An appeal to reason | 9 | |
7970070996 | Pathos | An appeal to one's humanity or emotions | 10 | |
7970070997 | Tone | A rhetor's attitude toward audience or subject. | 11 | |
7970070998 | Methods of organization | Chronological, spatial, most and important to least. | 12 | |
7970070999 | First person of view | We get to know tje narrator well, but we only see from the narrators point of view. | 13 | |
7970071000 | Third person objective | The narrator is an uninvolved reporter | 14 | |
7970071001 | Thief person limited | The narrator stays by the side of the msin character reporting what that character thinks. | 15 | |
7970071002 | Third person ommission | The narrator reports what each character thinks | 16 | |
7970071003 | Antecedent | The noun that the refers toor replaces | 17 | |
7970071004 | Repitition | A writers conscious reuse of a sound, word, phrase, sentences or other elementos. | 18 | |
7970071005 | Parallel | Repition of gramatical structure | 19 | |
8171707951 | Allusion | A reference to a person, event, object, or work can be familiar, ect. | 20 | |
8171707952 | Anecdot | A short entertaining story used to illustrate a point. | 21 | |
8171707953 | Aphorism | Proverb/adage/wise sayings | 22 | |
8171707954 | Ambiguity | The multiple meamings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, sentence or passage | 23 | |
8171707955 | Metaphor | A comparison of two dissimilar things. An analogy | 24 | |
8171707956 | Conceit | Extended metaphor | 25 | |
8171707957 | Personification | A device that gives human attributes to subjects that are nonhuman,ect | 26 | |
8171707958 | Pun | Play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings | 27 | |
8171707959 | Juxaposition | Normally u associated ideas, words, or phrases placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit. | 28 | |
8171707960 | Rhetorical question | A question that is posed without an expectation of an answer | 29 | |
8171707961 | Rhetorical fragment | Eliminating non-essential words in a sentence allowing a reader to infer | 30 | |
8171707962 | Motif | Recurrent images, words, objects, phrases, ext. | 31 | |
8171707963 | Archetype | A perfect example of a type or group | 32 | |
8372141621 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory, unbelievable, or absurd but may actually be true. | 33 | |
8372141622 | Antithesis | Two opposing idea presented in parallel structure. | 34 | |
8372141623 | Oxymoron | A paradoxical image created by using two contradictory terms together. | 35 | |
8372141624 | Sarcasm | A taunting, sneering, cutting, or caustic remark intended to wound another, its expressed indirectly. | 36 | |
8372141625 | Verbal irony | A speaker says one thing but means another | 37 | |
8372141626 | Situational irony | The opposite or something very different happens from what is expected. | 38 | |
8372141627 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated speech or writing | 39 | |
8372141628 | Understatement | Expression in which something of importance is emphasized by being spoken of as though it weren't important | 40 | |
8372141629 | Satire | The use of riducule, sarcasm, irony, humor, ect. To expose, attack, or deride the vices, follies, or shortcomings of humanity | 41 | |
8372141630 | Parody | A work that imitates another work for humorous often satirical purposes | 42 |
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