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LW-Vocab-10
Question | Answer |
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isocolon | parallel elements that are similar in structure and in length |
juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
metaidscourse | signals like transitions and hedges that communicate and clarify the writer's attitude or help the reader understand the direction and purpose of the passage |
narrative intrusion | a comment that is made directly to the reader by breaking into the forward plot movement |
polemic | a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist |
portagonist | the major character in a piece of literature |
prosody | the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance, determined by pitch, stress, and juncture |
qualify | to modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive |
qualifier | a word that qualifies or intensifies an adjective or adverb |
repertoire | a set of assumptions, skills, facts, and experience that a reader brings to a text to make meaning |
rhetor | the speaker or orator |
declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a sentence |
imperative | a sentence that gives a command or makes a request |
interrogative | a sentence that asks a question |
exclamatory | a sentence that expresses strong feeling |
simile | a type of comparison that uses the word like or as |
tautology | a group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed |
trope | an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas; artful diction |
unity | the sense that a text is about one subject and achieves one major purpose or effect |
unreliable narrator | an untrustworthy commentator on events and characters in a story |
verisimilitude | the quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience |
voice | the textual features, like diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona |
zeugma | a trope in which one word, usually a noun or main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning |