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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| audience | part of your rhetorical situation (speaker, subject, audience); the person or persons to whom comments are directed (affects tone, meaning) |
| bildungsroman | this genre of literature denotes the story of a single individual's growth process, at its roots a quest story, has been described as both "an apprenticeship to life" and a "search for meaningful existence within society" |
| cacophony | harsh, discordant sounds |
| chiasmus | repetition of ideas in inverted order |
| facetious | playfully humorous |
| flippant | lacking proper respect |
| frivolous | lacking in seriousness |
| attest | to show; demonstrate |
| aver | to prove to be true; to verify |
| extrapolate | to infer; to project or extend |
| plethora | many |
| myriad | many; innumerable |
| apostrophe | address someone not present |
| appositive | noun that renames another noun right beside it |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds but not constant sounds |
| asyndeton | conjuctions are omitted |
| atmosphere | mood or persuasive feeling given off |
| didactic | preach and teach a lesson |
| disdainful | showing hate |
| euphoric | great joy |
| embed | to make an integral part of |
| render | to cause or become |
| reaffirm | restate |
| aggregate | to combine |
| synthesize | combine from a variety of sources |