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CSET Multisubject
Language and Literature/Key Terms and Concepts
Term | Definition |
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Satire | Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. Satire is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correcting vice and folly. |
Rhetorical techniques | The devices used in effective or persuasive language. The most common examples include devices like contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical questions. |
Rhetorical question | A question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because. |
Point of view | Any of several possible vantage points form which a story is told. the point of view may be omniscient, limited to that of a single character, or limited to that of several characters, as well as other possiblities. |
Plot | The inter related action of a play or a novel that moves to a climax and a final resolution. |
Personification | A figurative use of language that endow non humans (ideas, in animate objects, animals abstractions) |
Paradox | A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but in fact is true. |
Parable | A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Parable are allegorical stories. |
Oxymoron | A combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms, |
Omniscient point of view | |
Novel | |
Metaphor | |
Lyrical | |
Literal | |
Jargon | |
Irony | |
Imagery | |
Hyperbole | |
Genre | |
Figurative language | |
Euphemisin | |
Diction | |
Denotation | |
Convention | |
Connotation | |
Climax | |
Biography | |
Autobiography | |
Attitude | |
Allusion | |
Allegory |