Terms : Hide Images
| 6333965530 | Denotation | The literal, dictionary definition of a word. Ex. The denotation of "chair" is "a place to sit." | 0 | |
| 6333965531 | Inductive reasoning | When something is suggested without being concretely stated. Ex. "Watch your wallet around Paul," implies that Paul is a thief but doesn't directly say it. | 1 | |
| 6333965532 | Juxtaposition | Placing two very different thing together for effect. Ex. "There stood together, the beggars and the lords, the princesses and the washerwoman, all crowding into the square. | 2 | |
| 6333965533 | Rhetorical triangle | The relationship between the author, the audience, the text/message, and the context. Ex. The author communicates to the reader via the text; and the reader and text are surrounded by context. | 3 | |
| 6333965534 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. Ex. In a paper about how dress code policies are bad saying, "Dress code policies are a good idea because..." | 4 | |
| 6333965535 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle. Ex. "A penny saved is a penny earned." | 5 | |
| 6333965536 | Didactic | Words that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing especially moral or ethical principles. Ex. "All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others." | 6 | |
| 6333965537 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. Ex. "This sanguine coward, this bedpresser, this horseback breaker, this huge hill of flesh." | 7 | |
| 6333965538 | Litote | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. Ex. Not a bad idea. | 8 | |
| 6333965539 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Ex. Using "the White House declared" instead of "the President declared." | 9 | |
| 6333965540 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. Ex. The machine will rotate the apparel in a clockwise motion until the clothing has reached a temperature befitting dryness. | 10 | |
| 6333965541 | Syllogism | A deductive system of logic that presents two premises which inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. Ex. All people like pizza. Mr. Schooler is a person. Therefore, Mr. Schooler likes pizza. | 11 | |
| 6333965542 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally the whole is used to represent a part. Ex. Referring to a violin as "the strings." | 12 | |
| 6333965543 | Synesthesia | The practice of associating two or more different in the same image. Ex. I smell trouble. | 13 | |
| 6333965544 | Anaphora | A sub-type of parallelism: the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. Ex. The repetition of "I have a dream" in Martin Luther King's famous speech. | 14 | |
| 6333965545 | Asyndeton | A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series. Ex. "I came. I saw. I conquered." | 15 | |
| 6333965546 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second. Ex. "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." | 16 | |
| 6333965547 | Isocolon | Parallel structure in which the parallel element are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length. Ex. "American by birth. Rebel by choice." | 17 | |
| 6333965548 | Zeugma | A grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated. Ex. The thief took my wallet and the bus. | 18 | |
| 6333965549 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Ex. Snap, crackle, pop Ex. Boom boom pow | 19 |
