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| 11568269123 | Epigraph | a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme ex: Four score and seven years ago | 0 | |
| 11568269124 | Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight Ex:I am your father |  | 1 |
| 11568269125 | Epistolary novel | A novel comprised of journal entries or letters Ex: Anne Frank |  | 2 |
| 11568269126 | Epithet | A characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing "Ruler or All" |  | 3 |
| 11568269127 | Epizeuxis | The repetition of a word with no others between for emphasis Ex: O horror, horror, horror |  | 4 |
| 11568269128 | euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing Ex: Instead of the word "die" use passed away |  | 5 |
| 11568269129 | periphrasis | Use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression Ex: Saying "vitamin- laden liquid" instead of "milk" |  | 6 |
| 11568269130 | circumlocution | The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language to avoid getting to the point. | 7 | |
| 11568269131 | exposition/ setting | a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers. ex: "once upon a time in a land far, far away (setting) there lived a lonely girl (character) |  | 8 |
| 11568269132 | Figurative language / Figure of speech | Language that is used to describe one thing in terms of something else; language that is not intended to be taken literally. ex: It's raining cats and dogs |  | 9 |
| 11568269133 | Frame Story | Story within a story. ex: | 10 | |
| 11568269134 | Comparison and contrast | Bringing together two things in order to emphasize similarities or differences | 11 | |
| 11568269135 | Conceit | Fanciful writing; elaborate metaphor. Far-fetched simile or metaphor Ex: Shall I compare thee to a summer day | 12 | |
| 11568269136 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning Ex: You are a dog suggests that you are ugly or morally detestable | 13 | |
| 11568269137 | denotation | Literal or explicit meaning Ex: You are a dog suggests a literal canine | 14 | |
| 11568269138 | deductive reasoning | general --> specific |  | 15 |
| 11568269139 | inductive reasoning | specific case --> generalization (starts from "inside") Think about "I" --> I/me = my experience but reveal truth about all experiences ex: My teacher yesterday and today uses PPTs tomorrow she will use a PPT | 16 | |
| 11568269140 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing Ex: It was the best of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the worst of times | 17 | |
| 11568269141 | didactic | moral lesson ex: Aesop's fables | 18 | |
| 11568269142 | pedantic | shallow, someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, detail to make an arrogant show of learning |  | 19 |
| 11568269143 | Either/Or Fallacy | Two alternative points of view are presented as the only options; there really exists one or more than one additional possibilities. Ex: We either ban hairspray or the world will end |  | 20 |
| 11568269144 | Ellipsis | the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues |  | 21 |
| 11568269145 | Epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation | 22 | |
| 11568269146 | Epigram | Brief, pithy, clever statement or poem. (compared to aphorism): An epigram is a short, rhyming poem while an aphorism is a witty remark about life Ex: Never complain never explain | 23 | |
| 11568269147 | Autotelic | Having a purpose in and not apart from itself. |  | 24 |
| 11568269148 | Bathos | An insincere and excessively sentimental appeal to emotion, or an abrupt transition in style from elevated to ordinary. ex: In the US Osama Bin laden is known for terrorism, killings, mirder, and unpaid parking tickets. |  | 25 |
| 11568269149 | Begging the question | Premises of the conclusion are presumed; circular argument. Ex: You have to believe me because what I'm saying is the truth |  | 26 |
| 11568269150 | Caesura | rhetorical break in the, sound of flow in the middle, of a line of verse. A pause in writing in a line of poetry to add rhythm is indicated by - The sunrise -- sire -- |  | 27 |
| 11568269151 | Canon (literary & fiction) | a collection or list of books | 28 | |
| 11568269152 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions ex: In Oedipus, he finds out that he killed his father and married his mother, and gouges out his eye |  | 29 |
| 11568269153 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form |  | 30 |
| 11568269154 | Clause | unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate. | 31 | |
| 11568269155 | Cliché | trite; overly familiar, overused phrases that lost it's meaning ex: what goes around comes around, life happens |  | 32 |
| 11568269156 | Colloquial/colloquialism | (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary. ex: she was recently *dumped* by her fiance |  | 33 |
| 11568269157 | ad hominem | Marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the argument made - Attacks the person arguing rather than the argument | 34 | |
| 11568269158 | allegory | A sustained metaphor continued through whole sentences or even through a whole discourse. | 35 | |
| 11568269159 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more neighboring words. | 36 | |
| 11568269160 | allusion | a passing reference, without explicit identification, to a literary or historical person/place/event, or literary work |  | 37 |
| 11568269161 | ambiguity | intentional or unintentional multiple meanings of a word/phrase/etc (usually bad, but can definitely be used rhetorically... sometimes to deceive a reader) |  | 38 |
| 11568269162 | anachronism | a thing belonging to a different time period (esp. something that is conspicuously old fashioned) | 39 | |
| 11568269163 | analepsis | flashing back to an earlier point in the story |  | 40 |
| 11568269164 | prolepsis | "flashing forward" to a moment later in the chronological sequence of events |  | 41 |
| 11568269165 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of a preceding clause |  | 42 |
| 11568269166 | analogy | Comparing similarities. |  | 43 |
| 11568269167 | anaphora | parallel structure starting with the same words |  | 44 |
| 11568269168 | antecedent | a word, phrase, or clause, to which another word refers | 45 | |
| 11568269169 | aphorism | a pithy and pointed statement of a serious maxim, opinion, or general truth | 46 | |
| 11568269170 | Aporia | An expression of doubt or perplexity; placing a claim in doubt by developing arguments on both sides of an issue. |  | 47 |
| 11568269171 | Aposiopesis | an unfinished thought or broken sentence. |  | 48 |
| 11568269172 | Appositive | two units that are grammatically parallel |  | 49 |
| 11568269173 | Apostrophe | In literature, apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "O." A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. -addressing the dead | 50 | |
| 11568269174 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds; non-rhyming - fleet feet sweep by sleeping streets | 51 | |
| 11568269175 | Asyndeton | A writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. |  | 52 |
| 11568269176 | atmosphere | Emotion created by an entire work, including setting and authorial tone. |  | 53 |
| 11568269177 | mood | The emotions elicited in the reader as a result of reading a text. |  | 54 |
| 11568269178 | Attitude | Approach, disposition, stance | 55 | |
| 11568269179 | Audience | * Readers or listeners of a "text" | 56 | |
| 11568269180 | Genetic Fallacy | Origin of the claim is used as evidence to discredit or credit claim itself. Ex: The nazi regime developed the VS wagon, therefore you shouldn't buy it |  | 57 |
| 11568269181 | Genre/ Generic Conventions | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter the features shown by texts that allow them to be put into a specific genre. ex: almost all Westerns use the Iconography of cowboy hats, six shooters, horses and spurs to place them in their genre. | 58 | |
| 11568269182 | Homily | a religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctrinal instruction; a sermon | 59 | |
| 11568269183 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally ex: There is still 10 hours left of class |  | 60 |
| 11568269184 | hypotactic sentence | the subordination of one clause to another Ex: | 61 | |
| 11568269185 | paratactic | the placing of clauses one after another without the use of words to indicate coordination or subordination | 62 | |
| 11568269186 | image/ imagery | visually descriptive / figurative language ex= She walked cautiously with her long red dress that had a small rip on the bottom, and her hands well maintained... | 63 | |
| 11568269187 | Inference/infer | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning |  | 64 |
| 11568269188 | Invective | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language ex: You slime, gooey piece of squirming tentacle, get your visually stinking self away from me |  | 65 |
| 11568269189 | Inversion | a literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter ex: The seagulls fly through the air. Through the air the seagulls fly (inversion) | 66 | |
| 11568269190 | verbal irony | A trope in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. ex: Its no big deal my cat just died |  | 67 |
| 11568269191 | situational irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected - Ex: A fire station on fire |  | 68 |
| 11568269192 | dramatic irony | The audience knows something the character does not. |  | 69 |
| 11568269193 | structural irony | Pervasive irony created by a structural feature such as a naive protagonist whose viewpoint is consistently wrong, shared by neither author nor reader. | 70 | |
| 11568269194 | Romantic irony | The narrator of a literary work creates an illusion of reality but then destroys the illusion by revealing that he is arbitrarily making up the story as he goes. ex: |  | 71 |
| 11568269195 | Socratic irony | a pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can then be challenged ex: when your parents pretend not to know about something you've done, only to ask you a series of seemingly innocent questions leading to your inevitable confession | 72 |
