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| 208228235 | Cacophony | harsh joining of sounds. Ex. My stick fingers click with a snicker" | |
| 208228236 | call to action | writing that urges people to action or promotes change. | |
| 208228237 | character | those who carry out the action of plot in literature. Major, minor, static, and dynamic are types of charcters. | |
| 208228238 | characterization | the techniques used to create and reveal fictional personalities in a work of literature by describing the character's appearance, actions, thoughts and feelings. | |
| 208228239 | chiasmus | a type balance in which the second part of the sentence is balanced against the first by the part reversed | |
| 208228240 | chiasmus | "my job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington" "but O, what damned minutes tells he o'er who dotes, yet doubts; suspects yet strong loves." | |
| 208228241 | cliche | a timeworn expression that through overusee has lost its power to evoke concrete images Ex. "gentle as a lamb" | |
| 208228242 | coinage | a word or phrase that is made, invented or fabricated Ex. "google it" "blog" "soccer mom" | |
| 208228243 | colloquial expressions | words or phrases charcteristics or appropriate to ordinary or familiar converstaion | |
| 208228244 | conceit | an elaborate and surprising figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things Ex. separated lovers likened to tge legs of a compass, the leg drawing the circle eventually returning home to "the fixed foot" | |
| 208228245 | concrete | pertains to actual things, instances, or experiences: opposite of abstract | |
| 208228246 | conflict | a clash between opposing forces in a literary work, such as man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. god, god man vs. self | |
| 208228247 | connective tissue | those elements that help create coherence in written pieces | |
| 208228248 | connotation | the emotional implications that words may carry | |
| 208228249 | consonance | the repetition of a constant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect Ex. "and each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds." | |
| 208228250 | deduction | the process of moving from general rules to a specific example | |
| 208228251 | defensive, offensive | a method of argumentation in which the speaker or writer defends her own views/ or attacks the views of others | |
| 208228252 | denotation | the specific, exact meaning of a word, independent of its emotional coloration or associations | |
| 208228253 | dialect | the recreation of regional spoken language, such as Southern dialect. Ex. Zora Neale Hurston uses this in such works as "Their Eyes Were Watching God" | |
| 208228254 | diction | the choice of words in a work of literature and an element of style important to the work's effectiveness | |
| 208228255 | didactic | writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach; usually formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns | |
| 278393883 | Doublespeak | language used to distort and manipualte rather than to communicate Ex. downsize, RIF (reduction in force): fire employees | |
| 278393884 | downplaying/intensifying | are methods of drawing attention and diverting attention | |
| 278393885 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or words necessary from complete construction, but understood in the context. Ex. "The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." | |
| 278393886 | emotional appeal | exploiting an audience's feelings of pity or fear to make a case | |
| 278393887 | epigraph | the usee of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme. Ex. Hemingway begins the "The Sun Also Rises" with two- "You are all a lost generation by Gertrude Stein | |
| 278393888 | epistrophe | figure of repetition that occurs whn the last word or set of words in one sentence, claus, or phrase is repeated one or more times at the end of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases Ex. "...and that gov't of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."- Abe Lincoln | |
| 278393889 | ethical appeal | estiablishing one's credibiltiy with the audience by appearing to be knowlegeable about one's subject and benevolent | |
| 278393890 | ethnocentricity | the belief in the inherent superiority of one;s own group and culture | |
| 278393891 | ethos | a Greek term referring to the charcter of a person; one Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | |
| 278393892 | euphemism | the substitutions of an infoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word or phrase perceived as socially unacceptable or unnecuessarily harsh Ex. overweight-fat, disadvantaged-poor | |
| 278393893 | exposition | background information presented in a literary work | |
| 278393894 | extended metaphor | a sustained comparison, often referred to as a conceit; is developed throughout a piece of writing | |
| 278393895 | figurative language | the use of words outside their literal or usual meanings, used to add freshness and sugest associations and comparisons that create effective images | |
| 278393896 | hyperbole | a figure of speech in which conscious exaggeration is used without the intent of literal perusasion Ex. "No; this my hand will rather The mulitudinous seas incarnadine Making the green one red" | |
| 278393897 | image | a verbal approximation of a sensory impression, concept, or emotion | |
| 278393898 | imagery | the use of language to convey sensory experience, most often through the creation of pictorial images through figurative language Ex. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day." | |
| 278393899 | induction | the process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization | |
| 278393900 | inference | a conclusion one can draw from the presented details | |
| 278393901 | invective | a verbally abusive attack | |
| 278393902 | inverted order of a sentence | predicate comes before the subject | |
| 278393903 | irony | a mode of a speech in which word express a meaning opposite to the intended meaning | |
| 278393904 | jargon | refers to a specialized language providing, a shorthand method quick communication between people in the same field Ex. The basis pf assesssment for Schedule D Case I and II, other than commencement and cessation, is what is termed aprevious year basis. | |
| 278393905 | juxtaposition | poetic and rhetorical device placing normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases next to one another Ex. Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" | |
| 278393906 | lending credence | in arguing her point, a writer or speaker should always give the opponent some for his/ her ideas. | |
| 278393907 | litotes | inderstatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed | |
| 278393908 | logic | the process of reasoning | |
| 278393909 | logical appeal | using facts, statistics, historical references, or other accidentally or may intentionally contrived to lend plausibility to an unsound argument. | |
| 278393910 | logos | a GReek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | |
| 278393911 | loose sentence | a sentence grammatically complete at some point (or points) before the end; opposite of a periodic sentence | |
| 278393912 | metaphor | a figure of speech involving an implied comparison Ex. "She is a rose!" | |
| 278393913 | metonymy | a figure of speech characyerized by the subsitution of a term naming an object closely assoicated with the word in mind for the word itself. Ex. the king -"the crown" The suits on Wall Street | |
| 278393914 | monologue | a speech given by one character Ex. Hamlet's "To be or not to be..." | |
| 278393915 | mood | the overall atmosphere of a work | |
| 278393916 | motif | reurrect images, words, objects, phrases, or actions that tends to unify the work |
