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Vocab for the Final
Rhetorical Vocab sheets # 1-4 for the final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Point of View | The perspective the story is being told in. |
| First Person | Speaking with I. I am telling you the Story. |
| Second Person | When your using you to tell the story. |
| Third Person omniscient/all-knowing | Where the author tells you the thoughts of different characters, more then one. |
| Third Person Limited | Where the author only tells you about the thoughts of one character. |
| Allegory | A type of fiction, ckaraters symbollize different ideas or people from history. Animal Farm. |
| Homily | A serious talk or eassy. Religous advice. |
| Invective | A harsh brutle attack on someone with words. |
| Syllogism | A 3 part logical argument. First two statements make sense and are true so the third one must be true. |
| Catahresis | A very extreme metaphor, sometimes funny. Only uses the poetic half of the meatophor. |
| Inference | A conclucsion drawn on what is in the text. |
| Semantics | The study of the meaning of words. |
| Prose | Nonpoetic writing, sentences and paragraph form. |
| Pedantic | When your writing is overly scholorly or confusing. |
| Loose Sentence | Where the main clause comes first. I went to the store, to by light bulbs. |
| Periodic sentence | Main clause comes at the end. When you enter the house, you should watch out for the dog. |
| Phrase | A group of words that work together and only have either a subject or verb not both. |
| Clause | A group of words that work together gramatically that have a subject and a verb. All men are mortal. |
| Subordinate clause | A group of words with a subject and verb that are fragments. |
| Predicate nominative | He is an Austronant. A noun that comes after a linking verb that modifys the subject. |
| Predicate adjective | Where you have an adjective after the linking verb that modifies the subject. That resturant is first rate. |
| Subject Complement | The overall term for predict nominative and predicate adjectives. |
| Antecedent | The word that a pronoun is describing. Here's the letter. I found it this morning in the mailbox. |
| Mood | The emotions evocet in a certin peace of writing. A type of verb. |
| Indicative | Verb referses to something in reality. |
| Subjunctive | When your talking about hopes and dreams. If we win this we can do this. |
| Imperative | There is a comande going on. |
| Genre | A type of literature, comedy, tragedy, science fiction. |
| Generic conventions | Typical features or elements you will always find in a type of genre. |
| Tragedy | A major genre, a movement from order to chaos, the hero often has a flaw. |
| Hubris | excessive proudness |
| Catharsis | Aristotle's idea of pity and sadness brought up then got rid of towards the end of the play. |
| Peripeteia (Peripety) | A complete turn around in the life of someone poor to rich, bad to good. |
| Pathos | The suffering of characters. The techniques an author uses to show the suffering. |
| Bathos | Where we see characters suffer and we laugh. |
| Soliloquy | A direct speech to the audience. |
| Chorus | A group of people who chant or sing to the audience. This acts as a narrator. They give background info. |
| Comedy | A restrictive society then it goes to one of freedom. |
| Satire | This makes fun of the authority or customs or laws of someplace. |
| History | A kind of play that celebrates an event of a nations past, to celebrate or as propaganda. |
| Romance | That there is some type of quest that a character goes on to bring something back to give to his people. |
| Rhetoric | Principle and techniques for effective writing and speeches. |
| Rhetorical modes | The major types of writing. |
| Exposition | Writing that explains or analyzes. |
| Argumentation | writing that tries to convince or persuade your readers. |
| Description | Writing that vividly portrays a person, place, or thing. |
| Narration | A series of events and how they get their. |
| Suspension of Disbelief | The idea that you have to accept the certain world that the author is giving you. Spirit of the book. |
| Flat character | A character that does not change no inner contradictions. Also called Static character. |
| Round character | A character that is psychologically complex. Also called a Dynamic character. They change throughout the novel or story. |
| Dramatic Irony | We understand info or have received info that the characters don't have. |
| Denouement | The last few pages of a novel, the rap up of a plot. |
| Anastrophe | inverting the word order, rose the sin in the sky. Associated with Yoda. |
| Antithesis | two ideas, not words, that contrast side by side. We are slaves but you are free. |
| Chiasmus | She drove to merced. To Bakersfield drove he. Switching order of the elements in sentences that are close. |
| Ambiguity | multiply meanings of text or a sentence or a paragraph. I have a club?! |
| Aphorism | A short statement written by a known writer. A wise saying or insightful sentences, philosophical truth. |
| Colloquialism | The use of slang or informal writing. |
| Conceit | A metaphor that helps you structure the passage. |
| Extended Metaphor | Is not as powerful or as original but same thing as conceit. |
| Connotation | What you associate with the word. |
| Diction | A chose of language that the author uses. |
| Didactic | A language is used to teach something. |
| Euphemism | Where you change a word to something less harsh. Died went to a better place. |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration. I will walk 1,000 miles for a candy bar. |
| Imagery | Sensory details used to paint a picture in the readers mind. |
| Parallelism | Words, phrases, clauses are arranged in similar ways. It was the best of times it was the worst of times. |
| Ambivalence | Having mixed emotions. Liking as well as not liking. |
| Ad Hominem | Attacking the person not the argument in a debate. |
| Sarcasm | Bitter language used to hurt someone. |
| Understatement | Where you don't give the full importance of the idea. |
| Wit | Intellectually amusing language. |
| Syntax | The order the Author chooses of his or her writing. |
| Synesthesia | Combining different senses. Taste the rainbow. |
| Paradox | An apparent contradictions, War's Peace. |
| Verisimiltude | Imitating real life. |
| Objective correlative | Something in the world that reflects the same state of mind of a character or person |
| Tone | Authors attitude towards the subject matter. Sympathetic/hostile |
| Atmosphere | Emotion that the tone invokes dispassionate. |
| Figurative language | Writing or speech meant to be imaginative not meant to be taken literally. |
| Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as. |
| simile | indirect comparison using like or as. |
| Alliteration | the same consanent sound starting each part or parts of a sentence or phrase. |
| Onomatopoeia | The word imitates the sound series of words. Pow Bam |
| Irony | Something that is believable but unexpected an eye doctor going blind. |
| Symbol | Something that represents something else like a dove. |
| Allusion | A reference outside of the story. |
| Synecdoche | Referring to something only by part of the thing all hands on deck instead of sailors. |
| Metonmy | A related idea that represents a thing like were Edison High - Edison High representing a team. |
| Oxymoron | two words side by side that are opposite. Jumbo Shrimp |
| Polsyndeton | A list of words that you have conjunctions in between. And .... And ...... And ...... |
| Asyndeton | Comas separating a list ....., ....., ...., |
| Personification | Giving an ananament object human like characteristics. |
| Romantic Irony | When the author sets up a real world image and then the author breaks it. |
| Socratic Irony | A debate with someone acting silly asking questions that makes the person contradict themselves. |
| Apostrophe | Someone addressing someone that is not really there. Death I will out smart you. |
| Ellipsis | Leaving out a word or a group of words but the meaning is the same. |
| Anaphora | Repetition of a phrase or clause. Like I have a Dream in a speech. |
| Malapropism | Some Character is trying to use big words to sound smart but is using them wrong. |
| Spoonerism | Words that are close to each other but you switch the beginning constanents. The dog is Bob. The dog bs iob. |
| Litotes | Using a double negative instead of a direct point. |
| Assonance | The same vowel sound used in words that are close. The old ogre showed us the magic stone. |
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