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Lang Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ad Hominem Argument | An argument that attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand |
| Allegory | A fictional work where characters represent ideas and or concepts |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds. Typically found at the beginning of words |
| Allusion | A reference, often oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or person |
| Ambiguity | Uncertain or indefinite; subject to more than just one interpretation |
| Analogy | Asks a reader to think about the correspondence or resemblance between 2 things that are essentially different |
| Antecedent | Grammatical term for the noun of or pronoun which another pronoun derives its meaning |
| Antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas, often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker |
| Apotheosis | Occurs in literature when a character or thing is elevated to such a high status that it appears godlike |
| Appositive | Word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis of clarity |
| Assonance | Type of internal rhyming where vowel sounds are repeated |
| Asyndeton | Occurs when the conjunctions that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence |
| Atmosphere | The emotional feeling -- or mood -- of a place, scene, or event |
| Attitude | Describes the feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea |
| Bathos | False or forced emotion that is often humorous |
| Contrast | Help writers to expand on their ideas by allowing them to show both what a thing is and what it is not |
| Diction | Refers to an author's choice of words |
| Elegiac | A work (of music, literature, dance, or art) that expresses sorrow |
| Ethos | The characteristic spirit or ideal that informs a work |
| Euphemism | A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea |
| Exposition | Refers to writing or speech that is organized to explain |
| Fiction | Comes from the Latin word meaning to invent, to form, or to imagine. |
| 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 | A mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations, but there can be auditory and sensory components to imagery as well |
| Irony | When a situation produces an outcome that is the opposite of what is expected |
| Juxtaposition | When two contrasting things -- ideas, words, or sentence elements -- are placed next to each other for comparison |
| Logos | Refers to the use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which two unlike thing 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 dominant feeling of a work, scene, or event. |
| Onomatopoeia | An effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning |
| Oxymoron | Combines two contradictory words in one expression |
| 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 in order 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 |
| Person | A grammatical term that describes the relationship of a writer or speaker to an audience by examining the pronouns that are 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 is called the point of view |
| Pun | A play on words |
| Repetition | The reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis |
| Rhetoric | 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 | To ridicule or mock 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 commonly used figure of speech that compares on 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 | Refers to the way words are arranged in a sentence |
| Tension | In a work of literature, is a feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work |
| Texture | Describes the way the elements of a work of prose or poetry are joined together |
| Theme | Usually considered the central idea |
| Tone/Attitude | The way the author presents a subject |
| Understatement | 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 | Refers to a particular breach of sense in a sentence |
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gmorin27