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Literary Terms (2)
Question | Answer |
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Horatian Satire | gentle,often humorous, ridicule of the follies and absurdities of human beings |
Idiom | meaning is not predictable from the usual meaning of its constituent elements |
In medias res | in the middle of things |
Irony | outcome of an event contrary to what is expected |
Juvenalian Satire | Speaker attacks vice and error w/ contempt |
Logos | use of logic to persuade |
Metonymy | part of something stands for the whole |
Minimalism | use of fewest essentials or elements to construct literature |
Mood | impression of the reader |
Motif | dominant idea or feature |
Overstatement | state too strongly;exaggerate |
Onomatopoeia | words imitate sounds |
Oxymoron | Contradiction in terms |
Paradox | seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth |
Parody | comedy charecterized by exaggeration and distortion of serious subject |
Pathos | emotional appeal to persuade |
Rhetoric | study of the effective use of language |
Satire | human folly and vice are held up to scorn |
Symbolism | use of symbols to convey hidden meaning |
Synecdoche | part is used for the whole |
Syntax | grammatical relation of words |
Tone | Main emotional attitude of the work of literature |
Understatement | State or represent less strongly |