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Vocab 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. |
| Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. |
| Rhythm | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. |
| Rhetoric | Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse. |
| Rhetorical Question | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer. |
| Romance | in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful. |
| Satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change. |
| Simile | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as , than, or resembles. |
| Soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage. |
| Stereotype | a fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality, often based on religious, social, or racial prejudices. |
| Stream of Consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character’s mind. |
| Style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer’s distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax. |
| Suspense | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story. |
| Symbol | a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. |
| Synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. “If you don’t drive properly, you will lose your wheels.” The wheels represent the entire car. |
| Syntactic Fluency | Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. |
| Syntactic Permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for a reader to follow. |
| Tall Tale | an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable. |
| Telegraphic Sentence | A sentence shorter than five words in length. |
| Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work. |
| Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization. |
| Tragedy | in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end. |
| Tricolon | Sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. |
| Understatement | a statement that says less than what is meant. |
| Unity | Unified parts of the writing are related to one central idea or organizing principle. Unity is dependent upon coherence. |
| Vernacular | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality |
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