Rhetoric

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Allegory

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a fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts............ characters are symbols

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Alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of words...... same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words

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Allusion

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literary reference to another thing, idea, person, or other literary work...... referencing something else within the text

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Anaphora

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"I have a dream" repetition of the same word/s to make a point

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Anecdote

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a short tale told to demonstrate or illustrate something..... short story with a specific purpose

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Antecedent

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it is the noun or pronoun form which another pronoun derives its meaning...... referring to a previously mentioned noun/pronoun with another pronoun

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antithesis

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an opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses "whereas she was boisterous, I was reserved"

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apostrophe

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a figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker "oh, love, where have you gone"

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Assonance/Consonance

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Assonance is a type of internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated "the pots rocky, pocked surface"

Consonance is a type of internal rhyming in which consonant sounds are repeated

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Asyndeton

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this happens when the conjunctions (and, but...) that would normally connect a string of words together are taken away from the sentence.

"I came, I saw, I conquered"

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Cacophony

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a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds

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Colloquialism

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A local or regional dialect expression

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connotation

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a words emotional content.

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denotation

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the dictionary definition

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diction

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the authors choice of words

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didactic literature

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literature or a work designed to instruct

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Euphemism

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a mild or pleasant-sounding expression that

substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea. softens the impact of what is being discussed

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hyperbole

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a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis. opposite of understatement.

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imagery

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mental pictures conjured by specific words and associations

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Irony

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creates a situation that is the opposite what was meant to happen

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juxtaposition

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when two contrasting things, ideas, words, or sentence elements, are placed next to each other for comparison

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metonymy

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creates a symbol for the meaning "suit is business"

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onomatopoeia

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an effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning "boom" shows a cannon firing

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oxymoron

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it combines two contradictory words in one expression

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paradox

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a seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth "the more you find out, the less you know" doesn't make sense but its true

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parody

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an effort to ridicule or make fun of literary work or an author by writing an imitation of the work or style

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persona

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the character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text (the speaker is not the author but a created character)

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personification

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a figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities

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polysyndeton

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the use of and or another conjunction with no commas to separate the items in a series

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pun

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a play on words created by using a word that has 2 different meanings

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sarcasm/verbal irony

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typically stating something to mean the opposite

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satire

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the ridicule or mocking of ideas, personas, events

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speaker

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the speaker is the narrator of a story

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style

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the choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. creates the expression

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Synecdoche

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using a part to represent a whole. "ABC's" is the alphabet

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syntax

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the way words are arranged in a sentence.

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tone

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attitude, the way an author presents a subject

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tricolon

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a sentence consisting of three parts of equal

importance and length, "I came, I saw, I conquered"

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Understatement

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when an author assigns less significance to an even or thing than it deserves.

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unity

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the quality in a work of fiction or nonfiction of all the parts being related to one central idea or organizing principle.

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voice

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how the speaker presents himself

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zeugma

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a particular breech of sense in a sentence. occurs when a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes sense with one of them "she carried a grocery bag and the key to my heart", carried is used figuratively and physically

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mother

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hey

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yo

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dude