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Epanalepsis |
Using the same word to begin and end a sentence. (For sarcasm, or to surprise.) |
"Nothing is worse than doing nothing." |
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Exposition |
Giving background info so the reader can understand the story about to be told. |
"Once upon a time, there was a family of bears that lived in a cabin in the middle of the woods. Their favorite breakfast was porridge. One day...." |
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Types of Description |
1) sight; vision/visual 2) hearing; audition/auditory 3) taste; gustation/gustatory 4) smell; olfaction/olfactory 5) touch; tactition/tactile |
Appealing to the senses. |
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Description |
Recreating or inventing a person, place, or thing in someone's mind. Appealing to the senses. |
The porridge was hot, sticky and lumpy. It looked like space lava, but with gravity, thought Baby Bear. |
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Argumentation |
Persuasion; relies on logic to make a point or defend a claim. Greek appeals come into play to help persuade: ethos, pathos, logos. |
I shouldn't have to close the window because if there isn't air in the room, it makes me claustrophobic. That's not a fun feeling, especially when one is trying to do math homework. |
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Narration |
The act or process of telling a story or describing an event or sequence of events. |
Charlie ate soup. ...(vs.)... "I'm eating soup," Charlie explained. |
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Simple sentence |
An independent clause with a subject and a predicate (action). |
He swam. |
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Compound sentence |
Two independent clauses joined with and/but/or/; . |
They yelled and threw confetti. |
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Complex sentence |
One independent with one or more dependent clauses. Sometimes there's a comma. |
[...] = dependent clause. Stay over there [until the phone rings]. .... Reading is good, [although studying is too]. .... There's a person at the door [who is my mother]. |
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Compound-complex sentence |
Independent clauses with a dependent clause in the middle. |
She sneezed [until her friend handed her a tissue], and they both continued strolling along the beach. |
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Cumulative sentence |
Begins with the main idea and adds details towards the end. |
I broke my leg while we were walking to the arcade, after we had seen a dog. |
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Epistrophe |
Repetition of a word at the end of multiple clauses. |
They saw the deer, they chased the deer, they scared the deer... and it ran away. |
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Connotation |
Implied meaning, "emotional shadings" attached to a word or phrase (beyond the actual definition). |
"Policeman" vs. "cop" |
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Denotation |
The literal meaning of a word. |
The light of God. ...Denotation: a lamp, or flashlight, or something that God has. ...Connotation: the goodness of God. |
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Diction |
A writer's word choice. (Informal/formal, colloquial, fancy, flowery, etc.) |
More formal: The bubbling forest stream drew myriad animals, birds with vibrantly-colored feathers, and small children who liked to play in the water. |
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Didactic |
An adjective that means "teaching". Works of this type generally teach moral principals. |
"...I shatter them silently, I muffle their watery cries, because they mean no more to me than the many grain of dirty sand and broken glass that are carried by my tides. I would give you my word, but the ocean can't make promises." |
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Discourse |
Written or spoken communication, the expression of thought through language. (4 types: DENA. Description, exposition, narration, argumentation.) |
(Anything written is an example, really.) |
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Euphemism |
Saying things "more gently" in order to be gentle, or to make less of something than it is. |
"There's been a breach of security," the head manager yelled into the phone as the building exploded behind him. |
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Discourse |
Language, basically. (Description, exposition, narration, argumentation.) |
(Four modes.) |
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Figurative language |
Using words to say things, with the intention that they are not taken literally. |
Comparisons, metaphors, hyperbole, etc. |
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Foreshadowing |
Hinting at what is to come. |
"I've felt gloomy all morning. The clouds have only gotten bigger, it seems." (...it's going to rain.) |
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Genre |
Type of literature, the mood/category of it. |
Romance, horror, comedy. |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration. |
I'm so cold I could die. |
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Metaphor |
Comparing things without 'like' or 'as'. |
The cooking show was a circus. |
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Extended metaphor |
(CONCEIT.) Continuous metaphor comparing multiple aspects of the things being compared throughout the piece of writing. |
The cooking show was a circus. The recipes were simple enough, but they always made them seem like magic tricks to make. Pots and pans were juggled, and ribbons of salt were thrown over shoulders. |
