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Example: the use of words like truth, justice, democracy, realism, etc... |
Abstract, Abstraction General Effect: creates vagueness which allows more people to relate and understand the idea |
A word or phrase that refers to ideas, relationships, generalities |
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Example: "He forgot his book on the piano" -- where this book could be actualy left on top of a piano or merely be about the piano |
Ambiguity, Ambiguous General Effect: can add humour or irony or suggest the complexities and uncertainties of and experience |
When a word or passage can be understood in either of two ways |
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Example: "Many are called, but few are chosen." |
Antithesis, Antithetical
General Effect: adds empathy, wit, and makes the statement more memorable. Also can be effective in development by contrast. |
A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, clauses, paragraphs, or even larger units of writing |
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Example: "Every man has a right to utter what he thinks, and every other man has a right ti knock him down for it." |
Balance, Balanced construction, Balanced sentence
General Effect: Empasizes a particular idea and creates pleasing rythms |
A balanced construction or sentence contains two distinct halves or parts, each of about the same length and importance |
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Dependent: "While I was asleep, the cat knocked over the plant." |
Clause
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grammatically related group of words containing a subject and a predicate |
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Example: "Whwn you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a ****** cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomache on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." |
Colloqualism
General Effect: gives writing the flavour of talk, making it more informal and more entertaining. |
Language which occurs more often in speech than in writing |
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Example: "Fifty years ago, when all type was set by hand, the labor of seven men was required to print, fold, and arrange in piles the signatures of a book." |
Complex sentence
General Effect: When used in conjunction with simple sentences it adds variety and makes it more intersting |
A sentence containing one independent clause and at least one dependent clause |
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Example: "He dipped his hands in the bichloride solution and shook them--a quick shake, fingers down, like the fingers of a pianist above the keys." |
Cumulative sentence
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Begins with a general statement which it then expands in a series of particulars |
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Example: metaphor, similie, personification, alliteration, assonence, irony, metonymy. |
Figure of speech General Effect: Adds to the style of the piece of writing thus contributing to itd tone and mood |
Any use of language for stylistic effect other than the plain manner of writing or speaking |
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Example: "Tea drinkers, we all agreed, use more sugar than coffee drinkers." |
Interrupted movement
General Effect: makes it seem more formal and can be used to create suspence |
A clause that is interjecting the normal order of a sentence Normal order: subject, verb, object (or conpliment) |
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When the writer uses words to mean something different from what they seem to say |
Irony General Effect: Irony surprises and makes its point with great emphasis because it forces us to contemplate two contradictory things |
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Example: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was yhe season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of dispair." |
Parallalism
General Effect: adds symmetry, effectiveness, and balance to a written piece. |
Constructions are BLANK when two or more words, phrases, or clauses of the same grammatical rank are related in the same way to the same word or words |
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Example: "In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued." |
Periodic sentence
General Effect: The structure and organization of ideas, if used only on occasion, provides a variation of how ideas are presented and is thus usefull for emphasising and idea or point. |
A sentence which delays the expression of a complete thought untill the end or near the end |
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The author's attitude towards the subject |
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