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English vocabulary 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colloquial/colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally for formal writing. local or regional dialects. |
| Coherence | A principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arrange so that the meaning of the whole may be clear and intelligible. |
| Connotation | The nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes. |
| Denotation | The Strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion attitude, or color. |
| Diction | Related to style, diction refers to writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness or effectiveness. creates an author's style. |
| Ethos | appealing to ethos. an ethical appeal makes use of what an audience values and believes to be good or true. |
| Euphemism | Use of a word or phase that is less direct, less offensive than another . |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. often have comic effect and serious is possible. |
| Hypophora | Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one’s own question(s). |
| Imagery | descriptions which impress the images of images of images of things upon the mind using one or more of the five senses. |
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