Terminology (60)

215388377	Allegory	A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings
215388378	Antecedent	The word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
215388379	Colloquial	The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing; regional dialects
215388380	Didactic	Literature specifically designed to instruct, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principals
215388381	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words
215388382	Aphorism	A witty adage used to convey truth or insight
215388383	Conceit	A far-fetched simile or metaphor
215388384	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts
215388385	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably known such as an event, book, myth, place or work or art (can be historical, literary, mythical or biblical).
215388386	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love
215388387	Connotation	The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; implied, suggested
215388388	Extended	metaphor A lengthy comparison of two different things
215388389	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage
215388390	Atmosphere	The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work; frequently foreshadows events
215388391	Denotation	The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion or attitude
215388392	Figurative language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid
215388393	Analogy	A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
215388394	Clause	a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb
215388395	Diction	a writer's word choice (related to style)
215388396	Figure of speech	A device used to produce figurative language; i.e. hyperbole and understatement
215388397	Generic Conventions	features shown by texts that allow them to be put into a specific genre
215388398	Genre	style or specification of a work
215388399	Homily	A lecture/sermon to a congregation on a practical matter or moral theme.
215388400	Hyperbole	An exaggeration for effect.
215388401	Imagery	Language that evokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader.
215388402	Inference/infer	The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
215388403	Invective	an abusive expression or speech
215388404	Irony/ironic	When outcome defies expectation - know all three types...
215388405	Loose sentence	A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement.
215388406	Metaphor	figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
215388407	Metonomy	An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations.
215388408	Mood	the atmosphere created by a text and accomplished through diction and syntax.
215388409	Narrative	a collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing. The term is usually applied to anecdotes, exemplums, fables, fabliaux, fairy tales, incidents, legends, novels, novelettes, short stories, and tales.
215388410	Onomatopoeia	A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning.
215388411	Oxymoron	Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings.
215388412	Paradox	a seemingly contradictory statement that is actually true. An idea which embeds a contradiction.
215388413	Parallelism	from the Greek for "beside one another;" the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.
215388414	Parody	a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
215388415	Pedantic	an adjective meaning overly scholarly, academic or bookish - used to describe the tone of a text.
215388416	Periodic sentence	a sentence in which the main clause (or the main idea) comes last.
215388417	Personification	The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects.
215388418	Point of view	The way a story gets told and who tells it.
215388419	Predicate adjective	one type of subject complement and adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb.
215388420	Predicate nominative	A second type of subject complement a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject. It, like the predicate adjective, follows a linking verb and is located in the predicate of the sentence.
215388421	Prose	Ordinary written or spoken language without the use of meters or rhythm
215388422	Repetition	In a text, repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or clauses to emphasize meaning or achieve effect.
215388423	Rhetoric	The art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse.
215388424	Rhetorical modes	This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purpose of the major kinds of writing. The four most common are exposition, argumentation, description, and narration.
215388425	Sarcasm	Involves bitter,caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone of something. It may use irony as a device, when poorly done, it is simply cruel.
215388426	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
215388427	Semantics	the branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words and signs, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.
215388428	Style	The choices in diction, tone and syntax that a writer makes
215388429	Subject complement	The word or clause that follows a linking verb and complements or completes the subject of the sentence either by renaiming it or describing it.
215388430	Subordinate	A word group that contains both a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone; it does not represent a complete thought. Another name for it is a dependent clause.
215388431	Syllogism	Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.
215388432	Symbol/symbolism	Generally, anything that represents, stands for, something else.
215388433	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing.
215388434	Syntax	The grammatical arrangement of words - This includes sentence length and sentence complexity.
215388435	Theme	The message conveyed by a literary work.
215388436	Thesis	The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition
215388437	Tone	the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both.
215388438	Transition	a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, or longer passage of writing that serves as a link in the writing.
215388439	Understatement	Deliberate playing down of a situation in order to make a point.
215388440	Wit	elements in a literary work designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused, i.e., the term is used synonymously with humor.