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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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," |