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Language and Literature/Key Terms and Concepts

TermDefinition
Satire Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. Satire is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correcting vice and folly.
Rhetorical techniques The devices used in effective or persuasive language. The most common examples include devices like contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical questions.
Rhetorical question A question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because.
Point of view Any of several possible vantage points form which a story is told. the point of view may be omniscient, limited to that of a single character, or limited to that of several characters, as well as other possiblities.
Plot The inter related action of a play or a novel that moves to a climax and a final resolution.
Personification A figurative use of language that endow non humans (ideas, in animate objects, animals abstractions)
Paradox A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but in fact is true.
Parable A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Parable are allegorical stories.
Oxymoron A combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms,
Omniscient point of view
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Hyperbole
Genre
Figurative language
Euphemisin
Diction
Denotation
Convention
Connotation
Climax
Biography
Autobiography
Attitude
Allusion
Allegory
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