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Midterm Vocab Words
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ad Hominem Argument | An argument that attacks the opposing speaker rather than the addressing the issue at hand |
| Allegory | When the characters represent ideas or concepts |
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words |
| Allusion | A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or person |
| Ambiguity, ambiguious | Refers to when something is uncertain or indefinite, subject to more than one interpretation |
| Analogy | A comparison or resemblance between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification |
| Antecedent | Every pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun |
| Antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses |
| Apostrophe | When a character or thing is elevated to such a high status that it appears godlike |
| Assonance | A type of internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated |
| Asyndeton | The omission or absence of usual conjunctions between parts of a sentence |
| Atmosphere | The emotional feeling, or mood, of a place, scene, or event |
| Attitude | The feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing towards a subject, person, or idea |
| Bathos | A false or forced emotion that is often humorous |
| Contrast | A rhetorical strategy that involves highlighting differences between two or more things or ideas |
| Diction | An author's choice of words |
| Elegiac, elegy | A work (of music, literature, dance, or art) that expresses sorrow |
| Ethos | The characteristic spirit or ideal that informs a work, the appeal to an author's credibility |
| Euphemism | A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea |
| Exposition | A writing or speech that is organized to explain |
| Fiction | Literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events, people, and concepts |
| Figurative Language | An umbrella term for all uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison |
| Foreshadowing | A purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis |
| Image, Imagery | A mental picture conjured by specific words and associations, as well as auditory and sensory components |
| Irony, Ironic | When a situation produces an outcome that is opposite of what is expected |
| Juxtaposition | When two contrasting things are placed next to each other for comparison |
| Logos | The use, or appeal, of reason or logic as a controlling principle in an argument |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which two unlikely things are compared directly, usually for emphasis or dramatic effect |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |
| Mood | The prevailing or dominating feeling of a work, scene, or event |
| Onomatopoeia | An effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory words in one expression |
| Pacing, Narrative Pacing | The speed of a story's action, dialogue, or narration |
| Paradox | A seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth |
| Parallelism | A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactic structures in a series to develop an argument or emphasize an idea |
| Parody | 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 | A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work |
| Person | A grammatical term that describes the relationship of a writer or speaker to an audience by examining the pronouns used |
| Persona | The character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text |
| Personification | 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 |
| Pun | A play on words |
| Repetition | The reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis |
| Rhetoric, Rhetorical Purpose | The art and logic of a written or spoken argument |
| Rhetorical Question | A question that is asked for the sake of argument |
| Rhetorical, or Narrative, Strategy | A plan of action or movement to achieve a goal |
| Satire | A ridicule or mock of 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 |
| Simile | A figure of speech that compares one thing with another using the words "like" or "as" |
| Speaker | The narrator of a story, poem, or drama |
| Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which pieces of evidence are used to create a new conclusion |
| Symbol | Something that stands for something else |
| Synonym | A word that has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another word |
| Syntax | The way words are arranged in a sentence |
| Tension | A feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels due to the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work |
| Texture | The way the elements of a work of prose or poetry are joined together |
| Theme | The central idea of a work |
| Tone | The way the author presents a subject |
| Understatement | The result of when an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves |
| Voice | How the speaker of a literary work presents himself or herself to the reader |
| Zeugma | A particular breach of sense in a sentence |
| Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |
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