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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.ex. Hope or freedom as char. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence |
| ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage |
| anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. “Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.” Yoda |
| anaphora | the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." |
| anecdote | A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event |
| antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun |
| aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) An aphorism can be a memorable summation of the author's point |
| atmosphere | The emotional mood |
| clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |
| colloquial | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing (local or regional dialects) |
| conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects |
| diction | Related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. |
| didactic | From the Greek, didactic literally means "teaching." Didactic works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. |
| epistrophe | repetition at the end of successive clauses. “They saw no evil, they spoke no evil, and they heard no evil.” |
| euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. EX. "earthly remains" vs "corpses" |
| exposition | In essays, one of the for chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and narration. AKA THE BEGINNING |
| figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things. Figures of speech include apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement. |
| gerneric conventions | This term describes traditions for each genre. These conventions help to define each genre; for example, they differentiate an essay and journalistic writing or an autobiography and political writing |
| homily | term literally means "sermon," |
| inference | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented |
| invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. |
| irony | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant |
| loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses |
| metonymy | A term from the Greek meaning "changed label" or "substitute name," metonymy is a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it "THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS" vs "THE PREZ SAYS" |
| mood | The 1st meaning is grammatical & deals with verbal units & a speaker's attitude.The indicative mood is used only 4 factual sent.s."Joe eats too quickly."The subjunctive mood is used 2 express conditions contrary to fact."If I were you, I'd get another job |
| paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity |
| parallelism | This can involve, but is not limited to, repetition of a grammatical element such as a preposition or verbal phrase |
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