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11 Eng. Review terms

Sixteen literary terms for 1st Semester final

TermDefinition
Parallelism When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length.
Pathos writer or speaker's attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience
Aphorism A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Plain style A way of writing that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression.
Inversion Reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.
Archetype An old imaginative astern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages.
Speaker The voice that addresses the reader in a poem.
Historical Context Refers to the historical time period so that you know what was going on during that time.
Logos means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.
Diction The choice of a particular word as opposed to others.
Allusion A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature
Counterclaim a claim made to rebut a previous claim.
Tone The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood
Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is an American philosophical, religious, and literary movement roughly equivalent to the Romantic movement in England
Ethos means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.
Romanticism A revolt against rationalism; intuition , imagination, and emotion are superior to reason; poetry is better that science; nature is beautiful.
Created by: Linda Hart
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