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Semester 1 English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ethos | argues in ways that reveal good character |
| pathos | writers and speakers attempt to evoke the audience's emotions |
| logos | uses reasoning and evidence to appeal to an audience or a listener |
| anaphora | the repetition of introductory words or phrases for effect/repetition is at the beginning of successive clauses, words, or phrases |
| epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses |
| antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas |
| euphemism | less offensive way of saying something |
| paradox | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some truth |
| periodic | main clause or idea falls at the end of the sentence |
| cumulative | the main clause falls at the beginning and is followed by the subordinate clauses and phrases |
| hortative | command or call to action |
| parallel structure | two or more words or constructions stand in an identical grammatical relationship to the same thing |
| triad | the expression of related thoughts in a group of three almost always using the same grammatical form |
| allegory | the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literary meaning |
| alliteration | the repetition of a constant sound at the beginning of words |
| allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something that is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
| assonance | the repetition of a vowel sound within words |
| characterization | methods used by an author to create a character, such as physical appearances, speech, thought, actions, feelings, and direct comment |
| conflict | a confrontation or struggle between opposing characters or forces in the plot from which the action resolves |
| connotation | the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the end of stressed syllables without the like correspondence of vowels |
| denotation | refers to the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color |
| foreshadowing | hints of things to come |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
| imagery | sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions |
| irony | the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true |
| metaphor | a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity |
| mood | the feeling a reader gets from a story |
| onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words |
| personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions |
| simile | a brief comparison, usually introduced by like or as |
| stanza | an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem |
| symbolism | anything that represents itself and stands for something else |
| synesthesia | refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, seeing, smell, etc. at a given time |
| tone | writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject and/or audience |
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