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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tone | the attitude that a literary speaker expresses |
| diction | word choice and phrasing in a literary work |
| syntax | sentence structure |
| imagery | visual description of an object or a scene |
| setting | time and place in which the events in the work takes place |
| theme | central idea of a literary work that is conveyed either directly or implicitly |
| point of view | identified by the pronou the narrator uses to recount events |
| 1st person | (I or we) immediate/direct |
| 2nd person | (you) carefully used; audience experiences events with the narrator |
| 3rd person | broader view; objective |
| omnicent | can enter conciousness of any character |
| limited | only from the persoective of one or a selected few characters |
| allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something that is presumably known such as a book, event, myth, place, work of art. can be historical, literacy, religious, or mytical. |
| antecedent | the word, phrase or clause reffered to by a pronoun |
| euphemism | more agreeable or less offensive substitue for generally unpleasant words or concepts |
| onomanopeia | natural sounds are limitaded in sounds of words |
| irony | contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. |
| verbal irony | words are literally the opposite of author's meaning |
| situational | events turn out opposite of what is expected |
| dramatic | facts or events unknown to a character but known to reader, audience of other characters in the book. |
| analogy | a simililarity or comparison between two things or the relationship between them. |
| allegory | character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning |
| colloquialism | slang or informality in writing |
| metonomy | figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated |
| hyoperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| connotation | the implied or suggested meaning of a word |
| alliteration | the repetition of sounds |
| thesis | the sentence or group of sentences that directly expreses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition |
| personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents describes concepts animals or inanimate objects by endowing them human attributes or emotions |
| invection | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. |
| homily | literally means "sermor" but more informally can conclude any serious talk or speech or lecture involving moral or spirtual device |
| pedantic | adjective that describes words phrases or general that is overly scholarly, academic or bookish |
| transition | a word or phrase that links different ideas |
| satire | a work that targets human vices and values |
| rhetoric | principles that govern the art of writing effectively |
| rhetorical modes | variety conventions, and purposes of all major kinds of writing, such as exposition, argumentation, description and narration |
| prose | refers to friction, including all its forms because they written in ordinary language. |
| understatement | the irony minimizing of fact understatement presents same thing as less significant than it is. |
| litotes | an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite |
| meisosis | understatement |
| aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle |
| didactic | instructive. primary aim or teaching or instructing |
| ad hominem argument | appeals to emotion rather than reason, feeling rather intellect. |
| inference | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented |
| joxtaposition | placing dissimiar items, descriptions, or ideas close together, or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
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