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Hodges English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | a style of writing that questions things like good and bad, doesn't support itself |
| academic | dry and theoretical writing |
| accent | stressed portion of a word |
| aesthetic | appealing to the senses |
| allegory | a story where each part has a outside symbolic meaning |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| anachronism | misplaced in time, something in the story not correct for the time period it is placed in |
| allusion | a reference to another work or famous person |
| antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to |
| anecdote | short narrative |
| anticlimax | the climax of the story doesn't stand up the what it was meant to be |
| anthropomorphism | when inanimate objects are given characteristics |
| antihero | a protagonist who is marked unheroic |
| aphorism | a short, usually witty, saying |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech where the speaker talks directly to a inanimate object |
| archaism | the use of deliberately old-fashioned language |
| aside | a speech (usually short) made by an actor to the audience |
| aspect | a trait or characteristic |
| atmosphere | the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene |
| assonance | the repeated use of vowel sounds |
| ballad | a long, narrative poem, usually in a specific meter |
| bathos | when writing of a scene evokes feelings of pity |
| pathos | when writing strains for grandeur it cant support and jerks tears |
| black humor | the use of disturbing themes in a comedy |
| bombast | pretentious, exaggeratedly language |
| cacophony | deliberate, harsh, awkward sounds |
| burlesque | broad parody, ex: Hamlet |
| Cadence | the rhythm of a piece of work |
| canto | the name for a section in a long work of poetry |
| caricature | a portrait that exaggerates a personality |
| catharsis | the cleansing of emotion of an audience, having lived through the experiences presented on stage |
| chorus | a group of people off stage making comments on what is going on in that scene |
| classic | typical |
| coinage (neologism) | a new word, usually invented on the spot |
| colloquilalism | a word or phrase used everyday but isn't a part of the "school-book" english |
| conceit, controlling image | startling or unusual metaphor developed and expanded over a few lines |
| complex/dense | suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of a word |
| connotation | everything the word suggests |
| denotation | the book definition of a word |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within sounds |
| couplet | a pair of lines that end in rhyme |
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