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Lit Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anastophe | Inversion of the usual order of words, like yoda |
| colloquial | Ordinary language and dialogue |
| didactic | intending to teach or patronize |
| euphonious | pleasing to the ear in terms of language |
| cacophonous | harsh and unpleasant to the ear in terms of language |
| pedantic | exaggerated show in ones learning |
| tautology | same thing said in two ways "big giant" |
| horatian satire | satire that is witty and amused (the onion) |
| juvenalian satire | satire filled with savage riducule |
| wit | intellectually amusing language that suprises |
| ad hominem | attacking opponents character and traits to undermine them |
| non sequitor | statement that does not logically follow the the previous |
| invective | speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person or topic |
| parody | a work that closely imitates another with aim of ridicule |
| antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites |
| aposiopesis | a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination |
| chiasmus | reversal in the order of words in two parallel phrases |
| circumlocution | the use of many words when fewer would do, purposefully vague |
| deus ex machina | a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event |
| sylogism | a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions |
| zuegma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) |
| litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed "you won't be sorry" |
| aphorism | a pithy observation that contains general truth |
| malapropism | the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally |
| metononomy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example |
| juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. |
| pathetic fallacy | literary term for the attributing of human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature |
| anaphora | rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses |
| asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. |
| catalogue | creating long lists for poetic or rhetorical effect. |
| epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. |
| loose sentence | begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause. |
| periodic sentence | main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can be persuasive |
| polysyndeton | several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted |
| stream of consciousness | a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. |
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