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idiom
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an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meaning of its elements.
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pretentiousness
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using big words to no purpose
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abstract
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words for concepts that cannot be directly perceived
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jargon
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the language, particularly the vocab peculiar to a trade, profession, or group.
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vituperative
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hateful, extremely critical language
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ambiguity
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a word or phrase that can be read in either 2 way and the context does not make one or the other clear
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pedantic
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language w/ an overly scholarly tone
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cumulative sentence
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an independent clause followed by a # of subordinate constructions that are equally important to the sentence's meaning.
"a creek ran through the meadow, winding and turning, clear water running between steep banks of black earth, w/ shallow places where you build a dam." |
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freight-train style
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couples short, independent clause to make longer sequential statement. Creates a sense of movement or flow. (no punctuation)
"It was a hot day and the sky was bright and the road was white and dusty" |
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verisimilitude
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how well character and event portray our perception of how things are (their amount of reality)
* Holden Caulfield |
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diacope
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repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase.
"we will do it, I tell you, we will do it." |
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style
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the manner of expression that an author portrays his story though all possible parts of language use.
ex. ornate, plain, emotive, scientific |
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dialectic
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a system of reasoning that arrives at a truth through the exchange of logical arguments. may result in the combination of the two ideas.
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synesthesia
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when one sense word stimulates another sense that it is not normally assigned to
"loud shirt" "bitter wind" |
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absurdist
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philosophy that states that the world in irrational and that searching for order causes conflict w/ the universe. also says that people looking for meaning in the universe fail because there is none.
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modernism
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break w/ traditional forms and subject matter and a search for contemporary forms of expression
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romance
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fictional prose about improbable events involving characters that are different from ordinary people.
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naturalism
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a theory that art or literature should conform exactly to nature or depict every appearance of the subject. emphasizes the role of heredity and environment.
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satire
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mixes a critical attitude of humanity w/ wit and humor in an effort to improve man kind and human institution. goal is to point out folly of target
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realism
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in art and literature did not idealize anything and expressed the most typical views, detail, and surroundings of the subject.
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