OLGCHS
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| 45793015 | Irony | the contrast between expectation and reality | |
| 45793016 | verbal irony | contrast between what is said and what is meant | |
| 45793017 | situational irony | when what occurs is different from what is expected to occur | |
| 45793018 | Dramatic Irony | When the reader knows something the character does not | |
| 45793019 | Satire | a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly to bring about social reform | |
| 45793020 | Sarcasm | a kind of particular cutting irony, in which praise is used taunting to indicate its opposite in meaning | |
| 45793021 | Rhetoric | principals of writing: effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | |
| 45793022 | Rhetorical appeals | persuasive devices by which a writer tries to sway an audience's response to a work | |
| 45793023 | Ethos | Persuasion by credentials. Establishes credibility with the speaker | |
| 45793024 | Pathos | Persuasion by appeal to Emotion. or interests to arouse sympathy and gain support for an argument | |
| 45793025 | Logos | appeal by logic and reason. Using evidence to support the answer and lead to a conclusion | |
| 45793026 | Tragedy | a literary work depicting serious events in which the main character who is often high-ranked and dignified, comes to an unhappy end; opposite of a comedy, which ends happily | |
| 45793027 | Paradox | an apparent contradiction that on closer inspection is actually true | |
| 45793028 | Imagery | language that appeals to the senses | |
| 45793029 | Motif | person, place, thing, or idea that recurs throughout a work | |
| 45793030 | Theme | the central Idea within a story | |
| 45793031 | Diction | the language style of the writer, choice of words | |
| 45793032 | connotation | all of the meanings, associations, or emotions a word suggests | |
| 45793033 | Denotation | literal definition of a word | |
| 45793034 | Allegory | a story in which the characters, setting, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts | |
| 45793035 | Aside | private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or to another character and that are not supposed to be overheard by others onstage | |
| 45793036 | Epic | a narrative poem that contains a larger than life hero who embodies the values of a particular society | |
| 45793037 | Foil | a character who sets off another character by strong contrast | |
| 45793038 | Soliloquy | a long speech in which a character who is usually alone onstage expresses his or her private thoughts or interests |
