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37 Cards in this Set
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the lesson drawn from ma fictional or nonfictional story.
or a heavily didactic story |
moral
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main theme or subjectof a work that is elaborated on in the development of the piece; a reapeated pattern or idea
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motif
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the telling of a story im fiction, nonfiction,poetry, or drama;
one of the four modes of discourse |
narration
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sentence that begins by stating what is not true, and ending by stating what is true
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negative-positive
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"it does not follow"
when one statement is not logically connected to another |
non-sequitur
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an impersonal presentation of events and characters. a writers attempt to remove himself from any subjective, personal involvement in a story
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objectivity
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the use of words that sound like what they mean
ex:buzz |
onomatopoeia
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when a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument
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oversimplification
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a figure of speech composed of contradictory words of phrases
ex: bitter sweet |
oxymoron
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the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
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pacing
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a short tale that teaches a moral; shorter than allegory
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parable
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a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning
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paradox
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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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parallelism
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a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements
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parody
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an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion
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pathos
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a term used to describe writing that borderes on lecturing
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pedantic
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the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object
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personification
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a for of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse, language ment to convince through appeals to reason or emotion
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persuasion
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the perspective from which a story is presented
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point of view
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an aurthor's characteristic manner of expression
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style
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a personal presentation of events and characters, influenced by the author's feeling and opinions
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subjectivity
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a form of reasoning in which two statements are made a conclusion is drawn from them
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syllogism
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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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symbolism
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a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole
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synecdoche
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ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length
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syntactic fluency
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sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved
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syntactic permutation
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the grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangment of words in a sentence
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syntax
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the central idea or message in a literary work
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theme
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the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author's asswertion or claim. the effectiveness of a presentation is often based on how well the writer presents, develops and supports this
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thesis
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the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience
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tone
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a word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries that reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph
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transition
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sentence consisting of 3 parts of = importance and length, usually 3 independent clauses
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tricolon
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the opposite of exaggeration. technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended
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understatement
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quality of a piece of writing
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unity
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refers to two different areas of writing. 1. the relationship b/t a sentence's subject & verb
2nd: the total sound of a writer's style |
voice
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understatement in which an affirmitive is expressed by the negate of the contrary
: not unhappy |
litotes
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Rhetorical terms
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