Literary and Rhetorical terms
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| aphorism | show 🗑
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| show | (usually in poetry but sometimes in prose) the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction
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| argumentation | show 🗑
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| assonance | show 🗑
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| authority | show 🗑
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| show | broad parody; whereas a parody will imitate and exaggerate a specific work, such as Romeo and Juliet, a burlesque will take an entire style or form, such as myths, and exaggerate it into ridiculousness
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| show | hars, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony
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| show | descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a facet of personality
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| show | the principles & styles admired in the classics of Greek and Roman literature, such as objectivity, sensibility, restraint, and formality
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| coherence | show 🗑
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| show | a word/phrase used in everday conversation and informal writing but that is often inapporpriate in formal writing
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| conceit | show 🗑
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| show | implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association in the reader's mind
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| show | the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowel sounds, as in boost/best (it can also be seen within several compound words, such as fulfil and ping-pong)
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| conundrum | show 🗑
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| denotation | show 🗑
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| description | show 🗑
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| diction | show 🗑
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| show | spoken or written language, including literary works; the 4 traditionally classified Modes of Discourse are 1)description 2)exposition 3)narration 4)persuasion
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| dissonance | show 🗑
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| show | a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose that either stands alone or is part of a larger work (it may also refer to a short poem of this type)
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| euphony | show 🗑
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| exemplum | show 🗑
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| show | the immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background info. neccessary for understanding the plot (also, explanation; one of the 4 MODES OF DISCOURSE)
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| show | language that contains FIGURES OF SPEECH, such as similies and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal
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| figures of speech | show 🗑
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| folklore | show 🗑
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| foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| genre | show 🗑
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| show | the excessive pride or ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard wanings of impending doom, eventually causing his/her downfall
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| show | antying that causes laughter or amusement (up until the end of the Renaissance, humor meant that a person's temperament
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| hyperbole | show 🗑
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| idyll | show 🗑
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| show | words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture
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| show | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
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| inversion (effectively) | show 🗑
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| inversion (ineffectively) | show 🗑
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| irony | show 🗑
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| lose sentence | show 🗑
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| show | a FIGURE OF SPEECH in which one thing is reffered to as another; for ex, "my love is a fragile flower"
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| metonymy | show 🗑
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| mode | show 🗑
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| mood | show 🗑
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| show | main theme or subject of a work that is elbaorated on in the development of the piece; a repeated pattern or idea
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| show | one story in a system of narratives set in a complete imaginary world that once served to explain the origin of life. religious beliefs and the forces of nature as supernatural occurences
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| show | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four MODES OF DISCOURSE
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| show | a literary movement that grew out of realism ini France, the US, & England. It portrays humans as having no free will, being driven by the natural forces of heredity, environment, and animalistic urges over which they have no control
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| show | an impersonal presentation of events and characters
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| onomatopoeia | show 🗑
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| show | a FIGURE OF SPEECH composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool"
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| show | a short tale that reaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory
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| show | a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning, as in this quotation from Hengry David Thoreau: "I never found the companion that was so companionable as soltitude."
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| show | the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form
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| parody | show 🗑
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| periodic sentence | show 🗑
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| show | a fictional voice that a writer adopts to tell a story, determined by subject matter and audience; eg. Mark Twain
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| personficiation | show 🗑
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| persuasion | show 🗑
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| show | the perspective from which a story is presented
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| first person narrator | show 🗑
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| stream of consciousness narrator | show 🗑
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| show | a third-person narrator, reffered to as "he," "she," or "they," who is able to see into each character's mind and understands all the action
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| show | a third-person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one chracter and generally only what that one character sees
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| show | a thrid-person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts anf eelings are only revealed if a character speaks of them
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| show | the main character of a literary work
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| realism | show 🗑
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| show | an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the local and its influences as a major part of the plot
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| rhetoric | show 🗑
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| show | 1)writer's purpose 2)his consideration of the audience 3)the exploration of subject 4)arrangement & organization of the ideas, 5)style & tone of expression 6)form
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| rhetorical modes | show 🗑
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| When did the romanticism movement began? | show 🗑
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| What are the focal points of the romanticism movement? | show 🗑
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| sarcasm | show 🗑
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| simile | show 🗑
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| speaker | show 🗑
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| show | a character who represents a trait that is regarded to a social or racial group and who lacks individuality
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| style | show 🗑
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| show | a personal presentation of events and characters, influenced by the author's feelings and opinions
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| suspension of disbelief | show 🗑
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| show | the use of symbols or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as representative of a higher and more complex significance
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| show | a FIGURE OF SPEECH in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "wheels" to mean a car
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| syntax | show 🗑
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| show | the central idea of "message" of a literary work
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| tone | show 🗑
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| show | quality of a piece of writing (see COHERENCE)
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