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LW-Vocab Lit Terms 3
Vers. - Diction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Verisimilitude | The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience |
| Voice | The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona |
| Zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning |
| Allegory | the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning |
| Alliteration | the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words |
| Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event or book |
| Ambiguity | The multiple meanings of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. |
| Analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. Can explain something unfamiliar by associating it to something more familiar |
| Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun |
| Antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite |
| Aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle |
| Apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, like liberty or love. Address to someone or something that cannot answer |
| Atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established by the setting |
| Caricature | a verbal description, which the purpose is to exaggerate or distort for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features |
| Clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. |
| Colloquial | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing |
| Conceit | A fanciful expression in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between dissimilar objects |
| Connotation | The non-literal meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. |
| Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word. |
| Diction | Related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices in regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. |
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