Ashley's Ap Eng Lit

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Ethos:

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Greek word meaning character

An appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader

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Epigraph:

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An epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

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Euphemism:

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a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

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Euphony:

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the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.

Also- the tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.

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Flashback:
Flashforward:

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an interruption of the chronological sequence of an event of past or future occurrence.”

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Flat Character:

Round Character:

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Flat -relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.

Round -complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

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Figurative Language:

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language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

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Figure of Rhetoric:

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writing techniques with the goal of persuading a reader towards considering a topic from a different perspective

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Foreshadow:

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a warning or indication of a future event

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Freight Train:

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

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Generalization:

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when a writer bases a claim on an isolated example or asserts a claim as certain rather than probable

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Genre:

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a category characterized by style, form, or content

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Heuristic:

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Hubris:

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excessive pride or self-conficence that leads a protagonist to desregard a divine warning or to violate an important moral law.

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Hyperbole:

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conscious exaggeration used to heighten effect. not intended literally, hyperbole is often humorous

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Imagery:

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the use of images, espacially in a pattern or related images, often igurate, to create a strong, unified sensory impression

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Implied Metaphor:

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is a type of metaphor that compares two unlike things, but it does so without mentioning one of them

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Induction:

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Opposite of deduction

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Inductive Reasoning:

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When we reach a conclusion through logical reasoning, it is called inductive reasoning

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Inference:

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ideas or facts that are implied or suggested rather than stated outright

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Intention:

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The purpose of the piece

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Invective:

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speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution

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Invention:

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Irony:

(verbal/situational/dramatic)

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literary device in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the literal meanings of the words (verbal irony) or in a situation in which there is an incongruity between what is expected and what occurs (dramatic irony).

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Litotes:

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figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives

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Limited Narration

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the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character

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Logical Fallacy:

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is a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure

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Logos:

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is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason.

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Lyrical:

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Having the form and musical quality of a song

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Metaphor:

Extended Metaphor:

Implied Metaphor:

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

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Metonymy:

Synecdoche:

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Metonymy - the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

Synecdoche - a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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Mode:

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a mode is an employed method or approach, identifiable within a written work

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Monologue:

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is a speech presented by a single character

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Motif:

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a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition

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Mood:

Tone:

Attitude:

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Mood is one element in the narrative structure of a piece of literature. It creates an emotional setting enveloping the reader.

Tone is a literary compound of composition, which shows the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience

Attitude is authors true feelings on subject, how they approach writing the piece and their reason for it

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Narrative Intrusion:

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when the narrator interrupts the story with background information or a comment to the reader

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Negative-Positive:

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Negative-positive restatement is a method of achieving emphasis by stating an idea twice, first in negative terms and then in positive terms

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Non-sequitur:

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a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.

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Objective/Objectivity:

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an impersonal presentation of events and characters