A.p. Lang And Comp Terms

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allegory

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an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract ideas

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anaphora

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repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row

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antithesis

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the presentation of two contrasting images

"To be or not to be."

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aphorism

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a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life

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assonace

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repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants

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asyndeton

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commas used with no conjuction to seperate a series of words

X,Y,Z

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cacophony

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harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately

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caricature

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descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a faced of personality

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denotation

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literal meaning of a word as defined

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discourse

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spoken or written language, including literary works

four main: description, exposition, narration, and persuasion

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epigraph

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the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme

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euphony

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a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose

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explication

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the art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text

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exposition

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the immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot

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freight-train

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sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjuctions

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metonymy

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a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch

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non-sequitur

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"it does not follow"

when one statement isn't logically connected to another

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objectivity

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an impersonal presentation of events and characters

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omniscient

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third person narrator

"he" "she" "they"

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limited omniscient

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a third person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees

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objective

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a third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera

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polysyndeton

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sentence which uses and or another conjunction with no commas to seperate the items in a series

X and Y and Z

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protagonist

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the main character of a literary work

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Red Herring
Reductio ad Absurdum

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when a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue the Latin for "to reduce to the absurd"

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syllogism

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a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them

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synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whoe, such as using "boards" to mean a stage or "wheels" to mean a car

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syntactic fluency

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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 permutation

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sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. they are often difficult for a reader to follow

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tricolon

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sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and lenght, usually three independent clauses

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voice

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refers to two different areas of writing
1. relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive voice)
2. the total "sound" of a writer's style