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APLANG vocab
Accumulative
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ad Hominem argument | attacks the opposing argument rather than addressing the issues at hand |
| Allegory | fictional works where the characters represent ideas or concepts |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds usually at the beginning of words |
| allusion | a reference usually oblique or faint, to another, thing, idea, or person |
| ambiguity, ambiguous | uncertain or indefinite, subject to more than one interpretation |
| analogy | correspondance or resemblance between two things that are essentially different |
| antecedent | pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun; noun or pronoun from which another pronoun derives its meaning |
| antithesis | an opposition or contrasting idea that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses |
| apostrophe | figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by the speaker. "oh my (love) where have you gone?" |
| apotheosis | when a character or thing is held to such a high status it appears godlike |
| appositive | word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity. "the luxury train, the orient express, went north," |
| assonance | internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated. "the pots rocky, pocked surface" |
| asyndeton | conjunctions such as and or but that would normally connect a string of words or phrases is omitted from a sentence. |
| atmosphere | the emotional feeling or mood of a place scene or event in a story |
| attitude | feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea. |
| bathos | false or forced emotion that is often humorous. |
| contrast | contrast or oppositions are used to elaborate ideas. shows what one thing is and what it is not |
| diction | refers to an author's choice of words. "the guy was really mad" vs "the gentleman was considerably irritated" |
| elegiac;elegy | a work that expresses sorrow, mourns the loss of something |
| ethos | rhetorical choice that appeals to ethics/values/morals |
| euphemism | mild or pleasant sound expression that substitutes for a harsher word. Ex. passed away vs. died |
| exposition | work that is organized in way that is meant to explain something |
| fiction | to invent, to form, to imagine. |
| figurative language | umbrella term for all uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison |
| foreshadowing | purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may happen later in the narrative |
| hyperbole | Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis. |
| image;imagery | An image is a mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations, but there can be auditory and sensory components to imagery as well. |
| irony;ironic | Irony occurs when a situation produces an outcome that is the opposite of what is expected. |
| juxtaposition | When two contrasting things--ideas, words, or sentence elements--are placed next to each other for comparison, |
| logos | The word "logos" refers to the use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument |
| metaphor | A metaphor is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared directly, usually for emphasis or dramatic effect. |
| metonymy | Metonymy is a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. |
| mood | Mood is the prevailing or dominant feeling of a work, scene, or event. |
| onomatoapeia | Onomatopoeia is an effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning. |
| oxymoron | oxymoron combines two contradictory words in one expression. The results of this combination are often unusual or thought provoking. |
| pacing;narrative pacing | Pacing is the speed of a story's action, dialogue, or narration. |
| paradox | paradox is a seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth. |
| parallelism | Parallelism is a literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactic structures |
| parody | Parody is an effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing an imitation of the work or of the author's style |
| pathos | Pathos is a sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work. |
| person | Person is a grammatical term that describes the relationship of a writer or speaker to an audience by examining the pronouns that are used. |
| persona | Persona is the character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text. |
| personification | Personification is a figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities. |
| point of view | The particular perspective from which a story is told is called the point of view. |
| pun | A pun is a play on words. A pun is created by using a word that has two different meanings, or using two different words with similar meanings, for a playful effect. |
| repitition | Repetition is the reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis. |
| rhetoric, rhetorical purpose | Rhetoric is the art and logic of a written or spoken argument. Rhetorical writing is purposeful; examples of rhetorical purposes include to persuade, to analyze, or to expose. |
| rhetorical question | A rhetorical question is a question that is asked for the sake of argument. |
| rhetorical, or narrative, strategy | A strategy is a plan of action or movement to achieve a goal. |
| satire | To satirize is to ridicule or mock ideas, persons, events, or doctrines, or to make fun of human foibles or weaknesses. |
| selection of detail | The specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative are referred to as the selection of detail. |
| simile | A simile is a commonly used figure of speech that compares one thing with another using the words "like" or "as." |
| speaker | The speaker is the narrator of a story, poem, or drama. The speaker should not be confused with the author, who creates the voice of the speaker; the speaker is a fictional persona. |
| syllogism | A syllogism is a form of deductive reasoning in which pieces of evidence are used to create a new conclusion. |
| symbol | A symbol is something that stands for something else. The American flag, for instance, is a symbol of the United States. |
| synonym | A word that has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another word is called a synonym. |
| syntax | Syntax refers to the way words are arranged in a sentence. For example, the following two sentences share a similar meaning, but have different syntax, or word order |
| tension | Tension, in a work of literature, is a feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work. |
| texture | Texture describes the way the elements of a work of prose or poetry are joined together. |
| theme | The theme of a work is usually considered the central idea. There can be several themes in a single work. |
| tone | Tone, which can also be called attitude, is the way the author presents a subject. |
| understatement | When an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves, the result is an understatement. |
| voice | How the speaker of a literary work presents himself or herself to the reader determines that speaker's unique voice. |
| zeugma | The term "zeugma" refers to a particular breach of sense in a sentence. It occurs when a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes literal sense with one of them. |
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