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| In literature, the perspective from which a story is told. | ||
| One of the major divisions of genre, ___ refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms, because they are written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech. | ||
| The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | ||
| from the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principle governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | ||
| The flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. | ||
| from the Greek meaning "to tear flesh," ___ involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. It may use irony as a device. | ||
| A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and convention for reform or ridicule. Regardless of whether or not the work aims to reform humans or their society, ___ is best seen as a style of writing rather than a purpose for writing. The effect of __, often humorous, is thought provoking and insightful about the human condition. | ||
| The branch of linguistics that studies that meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. | ||
| a type of irony in which events turn out the opposite of what was expected. | ||
| This is a narrative technique that places the reader in the mind and thought process of the narrator, no matter how random and spontaneous that may be. | ||
| an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices. | ||
| From the Greek for "reckoning together," a __ is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. | ||
| generally, anything that represents, stands for, something else. Usually, a ___ is something concrete—such as an object, action, character, or scene—that represents something more abstract. | ||
| a figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole. "All hands on deck" is an example. | ||
| The grammatical structure of prose and poetry. | ||
| The central insight that a literary work conveys about life or human behavior | ||
| The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition. | ||
| This type of point of view presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character, presenting only the actions of all remaining characters | ||
| Occurs when the narrator, with a godlike knowledge, presents the thoughts and actions of any or all characters. | ||
| Similar to mood, __ describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. | ||
| a word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph. | ||
| the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | ||
| In this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning | ||
| can refer to two different areas of writing. One refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive). The second refers to the total "sound" of the writer's style. | ||
| In modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. Usually uses terse language that makes a pointed statement. |
