summer literary terms for mrs. smiddy
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| Anaphora | the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences
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| Impressionism | a highly personal manner of writing in which the author presents materials as they appear to an individual temperament at a precise moment and from a particular vantage point rather than as they are presumed to be in actuality
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| Rationalism | systems of though that rely on reason rather than sense-perceptions, revelation, tradition, or authority
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| Slang | a vernacular speech, not accepted as suitable for highly formal usage, though much used in conversation
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| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words close together
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| Caesura | a pause or break in a line of verse
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| Synecdoche | a type of metaphor (trope) in which a part signifies a whole or a whole signifies a part
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| Parallelism | such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased
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| Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event
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| Fallacy | an argument failing to satisfy the conditions of valid or correct inference
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| Euphony | the subjective impression of pleasing sounds
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| Chiasmus | a pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed
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| Jargon | confused speech, resulting particularly from the mingling of several languages or dialects; also the special language of a group or profession
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| Realism | fidelity to actuality in its representation; striving to present reality as it truly is
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| Transcendentalism | a reliance on the intuition and the conscience
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| Metaphor | a comparison between two things in which one thing becomes the other
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| Romanticism | a movement of the 18th and 19th centuries that marked the reaction in literature from the formal orthodoxy of the preceding period;
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| Anaphora | the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences
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| Impressionism | a highly personal manner of writing in which the author presents materials as they appear to an individual temperament at a precise moment and from a particular vantage point rather than as they are presumed to be in actuality
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| Rationalism | systems of though that rely on reason rather than sense-perceptions, revelation, tradition, or authority
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| Slang | a vernacular speech, not accepted as suitable for highly formal usage, though much used in conversation
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| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words close together
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| Caesura | a pause or break in a line of verse
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| Synecdoche | a type of metaphor (trope) in which a part signifies a whole or a whole signifies a part
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| Parallelism | such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased
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| Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event
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| Fallacy | an argument failing to satisfy the conditions of valid or correct inference
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| Euphony | the subjective impression of pleasing sounds
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| Chiasmus | a pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed
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| Jargon | confused speech, resulting particularly from the mingling of several languages or dialects; also the special language of a group or profession
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| Realism | fidelity to actuality in its representation; striving to present reality as it truly is
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| Transcendentalism | a reliance on the intuition and the conscience
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| Metaphor | a comparison between two things in which one thing becomes the other
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| Romanticism | also termed "liberalism in literature," meaning especially the freeing of the artist and writer from restraints and rules and emphasizing individualism
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