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Lit Terms Quiz 2
English Lit Exam Terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ethos | In rhetoric, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator |
| Epitaph | Writing in praise of a dead person, most often on a headstone. Ben Johnson wrote a famous one:“Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die;Which in life did harbor give, to more virtue than could live...") |
| Didactic | Writing or speech that has an instructive purpose or a lesson.(Example: Religious works such as the New Testament letter of Paul to early Christians and the Muslim holy book the Qur’an (Koran) |
| Epistrophe | The repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences. (from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself: “The moth and the fish eggs are in their place, The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place...") |
| Colloquial | A term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area |
| Diction | The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect |
| Conceit | A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem |
| Dialect | The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group. (Example: Mark Twain’s character’s dialogue in Huck Finn: “We’s safe, Huck, we’s safe! Jump up ‘n crack yo’ heels! Dat’s de good ole Cairo at las’, I jis knows it!”) |
| Elegy | Poem or prose that laments or meditates upon the death of a person. ( W.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” (1940), and Dylan Thomas’s “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by fire, of a Child in London” are all famous examples.) |
| Connotation | The implied, suggested or underlying meaning of a word or phrase |
| Deductive reasoning | The method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles;movement from the general to the specific |
| Consonance | The repetition of two or more consonants with a change in intervening vowels. (Example: home/same, worth/breath, made/wood) |
| Critique | An assessment or analysis of something such as a passage of writing for determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre |
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