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Salter Vocab P-V
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| parable | short tale that teaches a moral |
| paradox | statement that seems to contradict itself but then turns out to have a rational meaning |
| parallelism | technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side |
| parody | work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements |
| periodic sentence | sentence that is not grammatically complete until its last phrase |
| persona | fictional voice that a writer adopts to tell a story, determined by subject matter and audience |
| personification | attribution of human abilities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object |
| persuasion | language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotions |
| point of view | perspective from which a story is presented |
| first person narrator | narrator who is a character in the story and relates the actions through his or her perspective, also revealing his or her own thoughts |
| stream of consciousness narrator | first person, instead placing the reader inside the character's head, making the reader live through the character's chaotic mind |
| omniscient narrator | third person who is able to see into each character's mind and understands all the action |
| limited omniscient narrator | third person who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees |
| objective narrator | third person who only reports what would be visible to a camera, thoughts and feelings only recorded through speech |
| protagonist | main character of a literary work |
| realism | 19th cent. literary movement in europe and US that stressed accuracy in the portrayal of life, focusing on characters with whom middle class readers could easily identify |
| regionalism | element in literature that conveys a realistic geographical locale, using the locale and its influence as a major part of the plot |
| rhetoric | art of using language effectively - write's purpose, his or her consideration of the audience, exploration of the subject, arrangement and organization of the ideas, style, tone of expression, and form |
| rhetoric modes | exposition, description, narration, argumention |
| romanticism | literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that began in the 18th cent. as a reaction to neoclassicism |
| sarcasm | harsh, caustic, personal remarks to or about someone |
| simile | figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities |
| speaker | the voice of a work |
| stereotype | character who represents a trait that is usually attributed to a particular social or racial group and who lacks individuality |
| style | an author's characteristic manner of expression |
| subjectivity | personal presentation of events and characters, influenced by the author's feelings and opinions |
| suspension of disbelief | demand made that the readers accept the incidents recounted in the literary work |
| symbolism | use of symbols or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as a representative of a higher and more complex significance |
| synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole |
| syntax | word choice |
| theme | central idea or message of a literary work |
| tone | characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience |
| unity | quality of a piece of writing |
| voice | the way a written work conveys and author's attitude |
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