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Lit Terms Quiz 5-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exposition | Rhetorical mode of explaining or analyzing. |
| Farce | A type of Comedy characterized by broad humor, outlandish incidents, and often vulgar subject matter |
| Foil | A character in a work of literature whose physical or psychological qualities contrast strongly with, and therefore highlight, the corresponding qualities of another |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Independent clause | sentence with noun and verb that can stand on its own |
| Invective | Emotionally violent, verbal denunciation |
| Juxtaposition | interconnecting two things for the purpose of comparing/contrasting |
| Litotes | understatement using negative phrases |
| Metonymy | Using something related to your subject to represent it-You can’t fight City Hall. (City Hall stands for the local government.) |
| Mock Epic | Treating a frivolous or minor subject seriously, especially by using the machinery and devices of the epic (invocations, descriptions of armor, battles, extended) |
| Narration | Rhetorical mode aimed at telling a story or narrating an event or series of events |
| Obsequious | overly concerned with the feelings of others and willing to put aside own feelings/beliefs |
| Paradox | Statement that appears self-contradictory but contains truth |
| Parody | a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way |
| Pathos | full of pity |
| Pedantic | Words or tone with an overly scholarly tone |
| Prosaic | outdated |
| Rhetoric | Principles governing art of writing effectively |
| Roman a Clef | Real historical events and people written about, as though ficticious |
| Stream of consciousness | A technique or method in modern narrative fiction which attempts to convey the characters' rambling thoughts |
| Subordinate clause | has subject and verb but cannot stand on its own |
| Syllogism | deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises |
| Syllogism | A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises - the first one called major and the second called minor - which lead to a sound conclusion |
| Synecdoche | when one uses a part to represent the whole (four-eyes for a person who wears glasses) |
| Syntax | Sentence structure |
| Tautology | circular argument |
| Tone | Author's attitude towards his or her material |
| Travesty | Type of work, the writer mocks something serious by belittling it |
| Understatement | describing something as less than it is |
| Verisimilitude | How well characters and events portray our perception of how things are (their amount of reality) |
| Vituperative | hateful, extremely critical language |
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