Stuuuuuudy D:<
Terms : Hide Images
| 266577725 | Adage | a familiar proverb or wise saying | |
| 266577726 | Antecedent | a word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | |
| 266577727 | Aphorism | a concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance | |
| 266577728 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | |
| 266577729 | Balanced sentence | a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast | |
| 266577730 | Bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity | |
| 266577731 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | |
| 266577732 | Cumulative sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases (main clause is at the beginning) | |
| 266577733 | Deductive reasoning | reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.) | |
| 266577734 | Didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | |
| 266577735 | Epigram | a brief, pithy, and often paradoxical saying | |
| 266577736 | Epigraph | a saying or statement on the title page of a work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of a work | |
| 266577737 | Homily | a sermon, or a moralistic lecture | |
| 266577738 | Inductive reasoning | deriving general principles from particular facts or instances ("Every cat I have ever seen has four legs; cats are four-legged animals"). | |
| 266577739 | Literary license | deviating from normal rules or methods in order to achiever a certain effect (intentional sentence fragments, for example). | |
| 266577740 | Litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (describing a particularly horrific scene by saying, "It was not a pretty picture.") | |
| 266577741 | Malapropism | the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar ("The doctor wrote a subscription.") | |
| 266577742 | Maxim | a concise statement, often offering advice; an adage | |
| 266577743 | Parenthetical | a comment that interrupts the immediate subject, often to qualify or explain | |
| 266577744 | Pedantic | characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship | |
| 266577745 | Romantic | a term describing a character or literary work that reflects the characteristics of Romanticism, the literary movement beginning in the late 18th century that stressed emotion, imagination, and individualism | |
| 266577746 | Solecism | nonstandard grammatical usage; a violation of grammatical rules | |
| 266577747 | Syllepsis | a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.") | |
| 266577748 | Synedoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels") | |
| 266577749 | Synesthesia (synaesthesia) | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | |
| 266577750 | Vernacular | the everyday speech of a particular country or region, often involving nonstandard usage | |
| 266577751 | Dissonance | harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds | |
| 266577752 | Elegy | a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme | |
| 266577753 | Frame device | a story within a story. An example is Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which the primary tales are told within the "frame story" of the pilgrimage to Canterbury | |
| 266577754 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ("The pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war/fighting].") | |
| 266577755 | Philippic | a strong verbal denunciation. The term comes from the orations of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedonia in the fourth century. | |
| 266577756 | Surrealism | an artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control | |
| 266577757 | Trilogy | a work in three parts, each of which is a complete work in itself |
