Essential Vocab

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all of the associations that we bring to a word

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connotation

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dicitionary definition to what the word prefers

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denotation

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reference to literary or historical related item

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allusion

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applied to any literature that teaches moral lesson

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didactic

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world picture; appeals to five sentences

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image

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prevading atmosphere of a piece of literature

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mood

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side-by-side two contradictory words or phrases

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oxymoron

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compare unlikes

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figures of speech

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what seems to be true vs. what is true

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irony

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reader knows something that the character doesn't

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dramatic irony

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opposite to the expected happens

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situation irony

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say one thing, mean the opposite

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verbal irony

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"like" or "as"

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simile

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comparison of unlikes ("he IS")

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metaphor

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human qualities to inanimate objects

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personification

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object stands for idea

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symbol

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part stands for whole or opposite (all hands on deck)

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synedoche

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gross exaggeration

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hyperbole

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author addresses an inanimate object

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apostrophe

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"he's no Einstein"

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litotes

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close association (The White House said)

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meonomy

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extended metaphor (thinking to breathing)

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analogy

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form of lit. whereby the characters/places stand for ideas and concepts outside the story (Hawthorne's Pilgrim's Pride)

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allegory

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short story to illustrate a point

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anecdote

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take notes on something of interest

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annotation

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an inscription on a building, statue, etc.

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epigaph

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specific work rewritten in same style to make fun of it

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parody

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take human weaknesses, exaggerate them to hold them to ridicule

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satire

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"graveyard" poetry (melancholy)

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elegy

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statement of general truth

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aphorism

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statement of general truth

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aphorism

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short, light-hearted poem (can be satrical)

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epigram

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example: the "black chill"

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synaesthesia

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the author's attitude towards the subject and reader

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tone

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something that has been left out

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elliptical

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"united we stand", "divided we fall"

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inversion

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starting with subject/ending with subject

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loose/periodic

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coordinating word order/ideas to create a certain effect/emphasis

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parallelisms

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repetition of grammatical structure

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phrasing

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reinforces meaning, construction, tone

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punctuation marks

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direct contrast

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antithesis

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a question that is asked that there is no answer (to give a point without soliciting an answer)

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rhetorical question