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29 Cards in this Set
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means "to or against man"
Argument attacking the person rather than their position |
Ad Hominem
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Logical argument with deductive reasoning
"All birds have feathers, penguins are birds, therefore penguins have feathers" |
Syllogism
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Poetry written in iambic rhythm w/ consecutive rhyming lines
"the sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray" |
Iambic Couplet
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The speaker in a play (NOT the author)
means "mask" in Latin |
Persona
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metaphor that makes a comparison between two completely different things
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Poetic Conciet
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monologue in which a character speaks their thoughts
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Soliloquy
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comedy based on a farfetched situation with ridiculous characters
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Farce
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crude, bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person
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Lampoon
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satire in which an elevated style of the epic is applied to a trivial subject
(ants used to make fun of an army) |
Mock Epic
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speech or writing in a harsh or abusive manner
(employs a heavy use of negative emotive language) |
invective
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phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complimentary in meaning
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Parallelism
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simple and clear style of writing
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plain style
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highly elaborate style of writing
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ornate style
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attitude a writer takes toward their subject, characters, and readers
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tone
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marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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obsequious
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work arousing pity, sorrow, compassion in the reader
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pathos
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a question that suggests its own answer
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rhetorical question
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cheerfully optimistic tone or mood
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Sanguine
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character who sets off another character by contrast
(Antonio and Shylock) |
Foil
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writing device of placing two things together for contrast
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Juxtaposition
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writing that imitates the characters thoughts
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Stream of Consciousness
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exaggeration
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hyperbole
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understatement used to create emphasis by negation
"not bad" |
litotes
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firgure of speech where something is closely associated with something else
"crown for king" "white house for president" |
metonymy
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contradictory but contains truth
"to be mean you have to be nice" |
paradox
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part of a thing is used to stand for or suggests the whole
"faces for people" |
synecdoche
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a movement or tendency in art, literature, and music emphasizes the traditional and the universal, placing value on reason, clarity, balance, and order
rational over irrational |
classicism
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movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the 19th emphasizing emotion, intuition,over reason and logic
irrational over rational |
romanticism
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philosophy that basic truths can be reached through intuition rather than reason
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transcendentalism
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