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LW-Vocab Lit Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absolute | a noun phrase that includes a post noun modifier and is related to the sentence as a whole, providing a detail or point of focus |
| agent | the initiator of the action--the "doer" |
| anaphora | The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. |
| anastrophe | inversion or reversal of the usual order of words |
| anecdote | a brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or support a claim |
| antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order |
| appositive | a noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning |
| archetype | a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image. universally present |
| Aristotelian Triangle | a diagram showing the relations of the writer or speaker, audience, and text in a rhetorical situation |
| Assonance | vowel rhyme. same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in stressed syllables of rhyming words. |
| asyndeton | a figure of speech describing the omission of a conjunction |
| audience | the persons who listen to a spoken text or read a written one and are capable of responding to it. |
| canon | one of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition: invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery. |
| climax | the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing number or importance |
| cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea. |
| deductive reasoning | reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle. |
| delivery | the presentation and format of a composition |
| enthymeme | essentially a syllogism with one of the premises implied and taken for granted as understood. |
| epigram | any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed |
| epistrophe | the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses or sentences |
| gerund | a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun |
| hedge | a metadiscourse signal in which a writer expresses uncertainty or qualifications |
| hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or class to action. |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is not predictable form the usual meanings of its constituent elements. kick the bucket |
| intonation | The pattern or melody of pitch changes in connected speech,especially the pitch pattern of a sentence, which distinguishes kinds of sentences or speakers of different language cultures. |
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