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| 6190699553 | Satire | A work that targets human voices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. Style of writing. Effects are varied, depending on authors goal, but usually is thought provoking and insightful about the human condition | 0 | |
| 6190699554 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to another | 1 | |
| 6190699555 | Style | 1. An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending fiction, syntax, figurative language, and other devices 2. Classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors | 2 | |
| 6190699556 | Subject complement | The word or clauses that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it | 3 | |
| 6190699557 | Subordinate clause | This word group contains both a subject and a verb, but it cannot stand alone; does not complete a thought | 4 | |
| 6190699558 | Syllogism | A seductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion | 5 | |
| 6190699559 | Symbolism | Anything that represents itself and stands for something else: 1. Natural (nature) 2. Conventional (religious) 3. Literary (in a variety of works) | 6 | |
| 6190699560 | Synecdoche | Is a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion, or main quality for the whole or the thing itslef | 7 | |
| 6190699561 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences (group of words) | 8 | |
| 6190699562 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 9 | |
| 6190699563 | Thesis | Is the sentence or a group of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning, or position | 10 | |
| 6190699564 | Tone | Describes the authors attitude toward his material, the audience, or both | 11 | |
| 6190699565 | Transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas | 12 | |
| 6190699566 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. Can frequently be humorous and emphatic | 13 | |
| 6190699567 | Undertone | An attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece | 14 | |
| 6190699568 | Wit | Intellectually amazing language that surprises and delights. Quick perception including creative fancy and a quick rogue to articulate an answer that demanded the same quick perception | 15 |
