[node:title] Flashcards

13975713470	Ad Hominem Argument	Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand	0
13975714792	Allegory	Fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts	1
13975717385	Allusion	A reference to another thing, idea, or person (usually to something historical or literary)	2
13975740120	Analogy	the correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially different	3
13975747758	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	4
13975754789	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	5
13975760037	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	6
13975762290	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	7
13975766281	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	8
13975769278	colloquial language	Slang or common language that is informal	9
13975770664	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	10
13975777058	declarative sentence	a sentence that makes a statement	11
13975778640	denotation	dictionary definition	12
13975780718	diction	word choice	13
13975780719	didactic	intended to instruct	14
13975782236	elegy	expresses sorrow	15
13975789375	epigram	witty comment	16
13975790272	ethos	credibility	17
13975792341	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	18
13975824683	exposition	writing that is organized to explain	19
13975961292	imperative sentence	command	20
13975963516	interrogative sentence	asks a question	21
13975964680	invective	bitter, critical statement about something else	22
13975966499	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	23
13975974094	juxtaposition	placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast	24
13975976944	logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	25
13975978572	loose sentence	A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows	26
13975980110	oxymoron	two contradictory words in expression	27
13975981869	Paradox	seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth	28
13975983908	parallelism	technique relying on the repeated use of the same syntactical structures	29
13975988388	parody	humorous imitation	30
13975990284	pathos	a quality that evokes pity or sadness	31
13975993170	pedantic	tending to show off one's learning	32
13975993895	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	33
13975998090	pun	A play on words	34
13975998851	repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	35
13975999606	rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	36
13976005770	rhetorical strategies	The way an author organizes words, sentences, and overall argument in order to achieve a particular purpose	37
13976016809	rhetorical devices	techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate more effectively	38
13976019712	rhetorical question	a question asked for the arg.'s sake	39
13976028890	satire	ridicule	40
13976038832	syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. Ms G is teacher. Teachers good at math. Ms G is mathtician	41
13976044851	syntax	particular word arrangement in sentence	42
13976048544	vernacular	casual speech of region	43