LW-Vocab-10
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| isocolon | parallel elements that are similar in structure and in length
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| juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
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| metaidscourse | signals like transitions and hedges that communicate and clarify the writer's attitude or help the reader understand the direction and purpose of the passage
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| narrative intrusion | a comment that is made directly to the reader by breaking into the forward plot movement
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| polemic | a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist
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| portagonist | the major character in a piece of literature
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| prosody | the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance, determined by pitch, stress, and juncture
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| qualify | to modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive
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| qualifier | a word that qualifies or intensifies an adjective or adverb
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| repertoire | a set of assumptions, skills, facts, and experience that a reader brings to a text to make meaning
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| rhetor | the speaker or orator
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| declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a sentence
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| imperative | a sentence that gives a command or makes a request
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| interrogative | a sentence that asks a question
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| exclamatory | a sentence that expresses strong feeling
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| simile | a type of comparison that uses the word like or as
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| tautology | a group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed
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| trope | an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas; artful diction
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| unity | the sense that a text is about one subject and achieves one major purpose or effect
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| unreliable narrator | an untrustworthy commentator on events and characters in a story
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| verisimilitude | the quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience
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| voice | the textual features, like diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona
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| zeugma | a trope in which one word, usually a noun or main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning
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