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| 211267138 | Allegory | The use of character and story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. the allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. | |
| 211267139 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. | |
| 211267140 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as events, books, myths,places, or works of art. | |
| 211267141 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | |
| 211441995 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of a key word "He gave his life, life was all he could give" | |
| 211441996 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between 2 different things or the relationship between them. | |
| 211441997 | Anapestic | A foot in poetry with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable | |
| 211441998 | Anaphora | The rhetorical device or repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences for emphasis & rythym | |
| 211441999 | Anathema | A thing or person accursed or damned or greately detested | |
| 211442000 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause regerred to by a pronoun | |
| 211442001 | Anticlimax | Using a sequence of ideas that abruptly diminish in dignity or importance at the end of a sentence. satirical effect | |
| 211442002 | Antimetabole | Repeating words in reverse order for suprise and emphasis | |
| 211442003 | antihesis | A constract or opposition of thoughts, "You are going, I am staying" | |
| 211442004 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principal. | |
| 211442005 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as love or liberty. | |
| 211442006 | Archetype | The original pattern, or model from which all other things of the same kind are made | |
| 211442007 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words. (cry and side) | |
| 211442008 | Asyndeton | The practice of leaving out the usual conjunctions between coordinate sentence elements. (ie, smile, shake hands, part) | |
| 211442009 | Atmosphere | The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work. | |
| 211442010 | Attitude | The position or posture assumed in connection with an action, feeling, mood. (to kneel in an attitude of prayer) | |
| 211442011 | Balanced Sentence | A sentence where the phrases/clauses balance each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning or length | |
| 211442012 | Bathos | An abrupt change from the lofty to the ordinary in writing or speech; anticlimax | |
| 211442013 | Blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentamer. | |
| 211442014 | Cacophony | Harsh sounding, jarring sound; dissonance | |
| 211442015 | Caesura | A pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry | |
| 211442016 | Chiasmus | Similar to antimetabole, but reversing the grammatical elements rather than just words, for emphasis | |
| 211442017 | Clause | A grammatical unit containing both a subject and a verb. | |
| 211442018 | Cliche | An overused, worn-out, hackneyed expression that used to be fresh but is no more. | |
| 211442019 | Climax | Arranging words, clauses or sentences in the order of their importance. | |
| 211442020 | Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | |
| 211442021 | Complex sentence | A sentence that contains one or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses | |
| 211442022 | Compound sentence | A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction (and or) or by a semicolon | |
| 211442023 | Compound-complex sentence | A sentence that contains two or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate cluases | |
| 211442024 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the from of an extended metaphor or analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects | |
| 211442025 | connotation | the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | |
| 211442026 | Consonance | The repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect. | |
| 211442027 | Cumulative sentence | Sentence that begins with the main idea and adds additional information, usually for description. | |
| 211442028 | Dactylic | A foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | |
| 211442029 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement | |
| 211442030 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word. | |
| 211442031 | Device | A plan. | |
| 211442032 | Diction | Related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices. | |
| 211442033 | Didactic | From the Greek, means "teaching". Meant to instruct. | |
| 211442034 | Dimeter | A verse written in two-foot lines | |
| 211442035 | Dirge | A funeral hymn; a slow, sad song, poem, or musical composition expressiong grief or mourning | |
| 211442036 | Elegy | A poem or song of lament and praise for the dead | |
| 211442037 | Ellipsis | The emissin of a word/words necessary for complete grammatical construction but understood in the context. | |
| 211442038 | Enjambment | In poetry, the running on of a sentence from one line or couplet to the next, with little or no pause | |
| 211442039 | Epanalepsis | Opening and closing sentence with the same word or phrase for suprise and emphasis. | |
| 211442040 | Epic | A long narrative poem in a dignified style about the deeds of a hero, whoin some way embody the cultural values of their society | |
| 211442041 | Epigram | A short poem with a witty or satirical point; any terse, witty, pointed statement, often antithetical | |
| 211442042 | Epistle | a formal composition written in the form of a letter adressed to a distant person or group of people | |
| 211442043 | Epitaph | An inscription on a tomb or gravestone in memory of the person buried there | |
| 211442044 | Euphemism | Are polite substitutes for unpleasent words or concepts. (ie, earthly remains vs corpse) | |
| 211442045 | Euphony | The quality of having a pleasing sound | |
| 211442046 | Extended parallelism | The reptition of words or grammatical elements to achieve cumulative force and rythym | |
| 211442047 | Extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occuring requently in or throughout a work | |
| 211442048 | Fable | A brief story, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson, or moral | |
| 211442049 | Figurative language | A device used to produce figurative language | |
| 211442050 | Genre | kinds or types of literature | |
| 211442051 | Homily | A sermon or morally instructive lecture. | |
| 211442052 | Hyperbole | An overstatement or exaggerated way of saying something | |
| 211442053 | Iambic | A foot in poetry with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable | |
| 211442054 | Imagery | Anything in a literary work that calls up sensations of sight, taste, smell, touch, heat, pressure | |
| 211442055 | Infer | To conclude or decide from something known or assumed; derive by reasoning | |
| 211442056 | Invective | A violent vebal attack, strong criticism, curses; an abusive term | |
| 211442057 | Inverted order of a sentence (sentence inversion) | Constructing a sentence so the predicate comes before the subject | |
| 211442058 | Irony | an implied contrast | |
| 211442059 | Juxtaposition | A poetic and thetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of suprise and wit | |
| 211442060 | Language | The entire body of words used in a text | |
| 211442061 | Literal/figurative language | Language that employs words in their ordinary meanings | |
| 211442062 | Litotes | Understatement employed for the purpose of enhancing the effect of the ideas expressed. contains a negative | |
| 211442063 | Loose sentence | a sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | |
| 211442064 | Lyric | A melodic poem that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker | |
| 211442065 | Metaphor | A comparison like a simile but usually implied and without a comparative words such as "like or as" | |
| 211442066 | Metonymy | the use of the name of one thing for that of another associated with or suggested by it. (white house for the President) | |
| 211442067 | Mock heroic | burlesquing or mocking heroic manner, action, or hcaracter | |
| 211442068 | Monometer | A verse wirtten in one-foot lines | |
| 211442069 | Mood | the atmosphere of literary work. | |
| 211442070 | Motif | A main theme or subject | |
| 211442071 | Myth | A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the causes of natural phenomena. | |
| 211442072 | Narrative | The telling of any story, or the story itself, the plot | |
| 211442073 | Natural order of a sentence | Construction a sentence so the subject comes before the predicate | |
| 211442074 | Novel | A fictional prose narrative, usually long enough to be published in a book by itself | |
| 211442075 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that sound like what they mean | |
| 211442076 | Oxymorom | A figure of speech in which opposite or controdictory ideas or terms are combined. | |
| 211442077 | Parable | A brief story, usually with human characters, that teaches a moral lesson. | |
| 211442078 | Paradox | A Statement that seems contradictory, unbelievable, but that may actually be true | |
| 211442079 | Parallelism (structure) | Refers to grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence | |
| 211442080 | Parallelism (repitition) | Refers to the repeated use of phrases, clauses or sentences that are similar in structure or meaning | |
| 211442081 | parody | literary work that makes fun of another work, type of work, or author by imitating and exaggerating the qualities of its subject | |
| 211442082 | Pedantic | A unnecessary display of scholarship lacking in judgement or sense of proportion. | |
| 211442083 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence that postpones the main idea to the end, addition information at the beginning to build interest. | |
| 211442084 | Personification | The treatment of an object or an absttract idea as if it were a person | |
| 211442085 | Point of View | In fiction, the person or intelligence the writer creates to tell the story to the reader | |
| 211442086 | Prose | The ordinary form of written or spoken language; without ryhme or meter, speech or writing that is not poetry. | |
| 211442087 | Prosody | The science or art of versification | |
| 211442088 | Pun | Play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. | |
| 211442089 | Repetition | A device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rythym and create emphasis | |
| 211442090 | Rhetoric | The skill of using spoken or written communication effectively | |
| 211442091 | Rhetorical Modes/or Forms of Discourse | Narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative. | |
| 211442092 | Rhetorical question | A question that expects no answer. | |
| 211442093 | Rhyme Scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. | |
| 211442094 | Romance | A story that presents remote or imaginative incidents rather than ordinary, commonplace experiences. | |
| 211442095 | Sarcasm | A taunting, sneering, cutting remark; gibve or jeer | |
| 211442096 | Satire | A literary work that ridicules various aspects of human behavior | |
| 211442097 | Semantics | The nature, structure, development and changes of the meanings of speech forms or contextual meaning. | |
| 211442098 | Sentence Structure | How a speaker or author constructs a sentence affects what the audience understands. | |
| 211442099 | Shift | A change of feelings by the speaker from the beginning to the end, paying particular attentin to the conclusion of the literature | |
| 211442100 | Simile | the comparison of two different things/ideas through the use of the words "like" or "as" | |
| 211442101 | Simple sentence | Sentence that contains one subject and one verb. | |
| 211442102 | soliloquy | lines in a drama in which a character reveals his thoughts to the audience, but to no other character | |
| 211442103 | Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem focused on a single theme. | |
| 211442104 | Split order of a sentence | Sentence that divides the predicate into two parts with the subject coming in the middle (In California oranges grow) | |
| 211442105 | Stream of consciousness | A narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming from a character's mind. | |
| 211442106 | Style | A group of different aspects of writing that have to do with the wirter's way of saying something. | |
| 211442107 | Syllogism | An argument or form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a logical conclusion drawn from them. | |
| 211442108 | Symbolism | A thing or action that is made to mean more than itself. | |
| 211442109 | Synecdoche | A form of a metaphor, using a part of something to represent the whole thing | |
| 211442110 | Synesthetic imagery | Detail that moves from the stimulation of one sense to a response by another sense, as a certain odor induces the visualizaiton of a certain color. | |
| 211442111 | syntax | Consists of sentence structure and word order, | |
| 211442112 | tetrameter | A verse written in four-foot lines | |
| 211442113 | Theme | What the author is saying about the subjects in his work | |
| 211442114 | Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject and the audience | |
| 211442115 | Tragedy | A serious play typically dealing with the problems of a central character, leading to a unhappy or disastrous ending. | |
| 211442116 | Trimeter | A Verse written in three-foot lines | |
| 211442117 | Trite | Is applied to something, especially an expression which through repeated use has lost its origianl freshness | |
| 211442118 | Trochaic | A foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable | |
| 211442119 | Understatement (meiosis) | A kind of irony that deliberately respresents something as being much less than it really is. The opposit of hyperbole. | |
| 211442120 | Vernacular | Using the native language of a country or place | |
| 211442121 | Vignette | A short, delicate literary sketch. | |
| 211442122 | Induction | A process in logic that involves moving from a number of particular cases to a general conclusion that all instances of the type investigated will conform to that type | |
| 211442123 | Inductive leap | Because we cannot test every instance (past,present,future) we take the leap from "most" or "some" to "all". We reach a generalization. | |
| 211442124 | Tests for generalization | 1) A fair number of instances must be investigated. 2) The instances investigated must be typical. 3) If negative instances occur, they must be explained. Show that they are not typical and, therefore, need not be considered as signigicant. | |
| 211442125 | Analogy | Inductive reasoning in which we assume that if two instances are alike in a number of important points, they will be alike in the point in question. | |
| 211442126 | Deduction | A process in logic that involves reasoning from stated premises to the formally valid conclusion; reasoning from the general to the particular. | |
| 211442127 | Syllogism | The formula of deductive reasoning. Major premise: statement universally accepted as true. Minor premise; major premise applied to a particular object or situation. Conlcusion: establishes the relationshiop of the object to the major proposition. | |
| 211442128 | Distributed Middle Term | In order that the syllogism be valid, the formula must contain what is known as --------------- ----------- --------which means the word that is the subject of the sentence in the major premise must be part of the predicate in the minor premise. Although this type of syllogism is not the only one, it is the type most commonly used. | |
| 211442129 | Begging the question | Assuming something to be true that really needs proof. | |
| 211442130 | Ignoring the question | a question is set up so that argument is shifted to new ground, or an appeal is made to some emotional attitude having nothing to do with the logic of the case. | |
| 211442131 | Equivocation | using the same term with different meaning | |
| 211442132 | Non-sequitur | (Latin, literally; "It does not follow"). The conclusin does not follow the preceding arguments. | |
| 211442133 | Faulty Dilemma | the major premise presents a choice that does not exhaust the possibilities | |
| 211442134 | Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc | (after this, therefore because of this) It attempts to prove that becase a second event followed a first event, the second event was a result of the first | |
| 211442135 | Argumentum Ad Hominem | (Argument to the man) Turning from the issue to the character involved, usually a s an attack. | |
| 211442136 | Ad misericordiam | An appeal for sympathy | |
| 211442137 | Hypothesis Contrary to Fact | beginning with a premise that is not necessarily true and then drawing conclusions from it | |
| 211442138 | Composition | arguing that a group must have the same qualities or characteristics as its members | |
| 211442139 | Division | arguing that an individual must have the characteristics of the group | |
| 211442140 | Dicto Simpliciter | an argument based on an unqualified generalization | |
| 211442141 | Contradictory Premises | the main premises contradict each other | |
| 211442142 | Over-generalizing (or Hasty Generalization) | Too few instances are presented to reach an accurate conclusion | |
| 211442143 | Premise and the common ground | the terms of the premise must be accepted as true | |
| 211442144 | False Analogy | wrongful comparisons of dissimilar situations | |
| 211442145 | Ad Vericundiam | an appeal to general authority. "my teacher says...." "it says so in the bible" | |
| 211442146 | Ad Populum | appeal to a crowd | |
| 211442147 | Self-Evident truths | proceeding from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion (time is money) | |
| 211442148 | Guilt (or innocence) by association | use of irrelevant connections to accuse or vindicate | |
| 211442149 | Either/or fallacy | requires absolutes which do not allow for intermediate cases "Do you want to go to college or dig ditches all your life?" | |
| 211442150 | Appeals | rational, ethical, emotional | |
| 211442151 | Argument | data, claim, warrant, | |
| 211442152 | Classicism | A movement or tendency in art, music, and literature to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece and Rome. It differs from Romanticism in that while Romanticism dwells on the emotional impact of a work, classicism concerns itself with form and discipline. | |
| 211442153 | Romanticism | Literary and artistic movement of the 19th century, one that arose in reaction against 18th century Neoclassicism and placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion | |
| 211442154 | Realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be | |
| 211442155 | Naturalism | literary movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. tended to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws. | |
| 211442156 | Transcendentalism | An American literary and philosophical movement of the 19th century. They respected the individual spirit and the natural world, believing that divinity was present everwhere, in nature and in each person. | |
| 211442157 | Modernism | It attempted to capture the essence of modern life in the 20th century in both from and the content of their work. Uncertainty, bewilderment, and apparent meaninglessness of modern life were common themes in literature. | |
| 211442158 | Postmodernism | Refers to the collection of literary movements that have developed in the decades following World Ward II. |
