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Dimmer Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define: ad hominem | appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason |
| Define: anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences |
| Define: evocation | an act or instance of evoking; a calling forth |
| Define: metonymy | a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part |
| Define: synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part |
| Define: homily | an inspirational saying or cliché |
| Define: genre | a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like |
| Define: antithesis | the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas |
| Define: style | a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character |
| Define: third person | the person that is used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anything or to anyone other than the speaker or the one or ones being addressed |
| Define: hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| Define: syntax | the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language |
| Define: paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self contradicting but could hold possible truth |
| Define: ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention |
| Define: analogy | a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based |
| Define: atmosphere | a surrounding or pervading mood, environment, or influence |
| Define: caricature | a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things |
| Define: parallelism | a parallel or comparison |
| Define: antecedent | preceding; prior |
| Define: exposition | writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain |
| Define: narration | a recital of events, esp. in chronological order, as the story narrated in a poem or the exposition in a drama |
| Define: description | the act or method of describing |
| Define: flashback | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work |
| Define: omniscient | having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding |
| Define: apostrophe | to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word |
| Define: argumentation | the process of developing or presenting an argument; reasoning |
| Define: chronological | arranged in the order of time |
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