Q3 Literary Terms (English)

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Words for concepts that cannot be directly perceived.

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Abstract

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Honor, Love, Truth (examples)

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Abstract

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A word or phrase that can be read in either of two ways and the context does not make one or the other clear.

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Ambiguity

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“It was a funny situation.”
(Laughable or strange?)

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Ambiguity

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An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meaning of its elements.

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Idiom

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Kick the bucket; hang your head

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Idiom

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The language, particularly the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group.

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Jargon

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unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing

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Jargon

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Language with an overly scholarly or instructional tone.

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Pedantic

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Hateful, extremely critical language

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Vituperative

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Upon receiving an answer in the affirmative, he proceeded to the bulletin board.
(example)

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Pretentiousness

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Using big words to no purpose.

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Pretentiousness

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Initial independent clause followed by a number of subordinate constructions which are equally important to the sentence's meaning.

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Cumulative Sentence

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"A creek ran through the meadow, winding and turning, clear water running between steep banks of black earth, with shallow places where you build a dam."

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Cumulative Sentence

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Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase

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Diacope

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"We will do it, I tell you; we will do it. "

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Diacope

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"We give thanks to Thee, O God, we give thanks . . . . "

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Diacope

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any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments

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Dialectic

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the outcome of the exercise might not simply be the refutation of one of the relevant points of view, but a synthesis or combination of the opposing assertions

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Dialectic

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Couples short, independent clauses to make longer sequential statements. Creates a sense of movement and flow.

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Freight-Train Style

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"It was a hot day and the sky was bright and the road was white and dusty."

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Freight-Train Style

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The manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the possible parts of language use. Some general ____ might include scientific, ornate, plain, emotive. Most writers have their own particular ______.

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Style

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An experience in which the stimulation of one sense elicits a perception that ordinarily would be elicited had another sense been stimulated

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Synesthesia

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Cross-sensory metaphors (e.g., "loud shirt", "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh")

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Synesthesia

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How well characters and events portray our perception of how things are (their amount of reality).

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Verisimilitude

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A philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that the search for order brings the individual into conflict with the universe. it can also be defined as the belief that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe have ultimately failed because no such meaning exists

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Absurdist

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A self-conscious break with traditional forms and subject matter and a search for a distinctly contemporary mode of expression.

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Modernism

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It affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation

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Modernism

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A theory that art or literature should conform exactly to nature or depict every appearance of the subject

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Naturalism

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emphasizes the role of heredity and environment upon human life and character development

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Naturalism

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The theory or practice in art and literature of fidelity to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization of the most typical views, details, and surroundings of the subject

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Realism

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An extended fictional prose narrative about improbable events involving characters that are quite different from ordinary people

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Romance

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Knights on a quest for a magic sword and aided by characters like fairies and trolls (examples)

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Romance

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goal is to point out the folly of author's target

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Satire

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A manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude of humanity with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions

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Satire