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| A pair of terms reffering to the distinction between the meanings; Denotation = real meaning, Connotation = understood meaning | ||
| reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and applying it to a specific case; the sun rises every morning therefore the sun will rise on Mondays | ||
| the word choices made by a writer | ||
| having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | ||
| a situation that requires a person to decide between two equally attractive or equally unattractive alternatives | ||
| harsh, inharmonoiuos, or discordant sounds | ||
| a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme | ||
| a long, narrative poem written in elevated style which presnets the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or nation | ||
| a brief, pithly, and often paradoxical saying; I can resist everything except temptation | ||
| a quotation used at the beginning of a text designed to illustrate its title of designate its theme; Do no play this piece fast - Allegero | ||
| a moment of sudden revalation or insight | ||
| an inscription on a tombstone or burial place | ||
| a term used to point out a characteristic of a person; swift-footed Achilles | ||
| a formal speech *praising* a person who has died | ||
| indirect, less offensive way of saying something considered unpleasent; passed away = die | ||
| an interjection to lend emphasis, sometimes profanity | ||
| a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | ||
| the insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order | ||
| a story inside a story; Canterbury tales | ||
| sermon or moralistic lecture | ||
| ecessive pride or arrongance thatresults in the downfall of the protaganist of a tragedy; Creon in Antigone | ||
| highly conjectural, not well supported by available evidence | ||
| an expression in a given language that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of the words in the expression or a regional speech; Kick the bucket | ||
| a conclusion one draws based on premises or evidence; All men are moral. Socratis is a man. Therefore Socrates is moral | ||
| the specialized language or vocabulary of a particular group of profession; computer - download, megabtye, serial port |
