Vocab Test 5 Ap 11

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rhetoric

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the language of a work and its style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience.

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rhetorical mode

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a general term that identifies discourse according to its chief purpose. Modes include exposition, argumentation, description, and narration.

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rhetorical question

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a question to which the audience already knows the answer; a question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.

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rhetorical stance

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language that conveys a speaker's attitude or opinion with regard to a particular subject.

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rhyme

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the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry but not unheard of in prose.

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rhythm

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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up speech and writing.

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romance

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an extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places.

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sarcasm

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a sharp, caustic attitude conveyed in words through jibes, taunts, or other remarks; sarcasm differs from irony, which is more subtle.

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satire

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a literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change.

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sentence structure

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the arrangement of the parts of a sentence. Simple (subject, verb), Compound (two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction), or Complex (an independent claus plus one or more dependent clauses).

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sentiment

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a synonym for view or feeling; also a refined and tender emotion in literature.

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sentimental

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a term that describes characters' excessive emotional response to experience; also nauseatingly nostalgic and mawkish.

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setting

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an environment that consists of time, place, historical milieu, and social, political, and even spiritual circumstances.

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simile

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a figurative comparison using the words like or as.

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stream of consciousness

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a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind.

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style

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the manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, forms sentences, and creates a structure to create ideas.

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stylistic devices

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a general term referring to diction, syntax, tone, figurative language, and all other elements that contribute to the "style," or manner of a give piece of discourse.

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subject complement

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the name of a grammatical unit that is comprised of predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives.

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subjective

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of or relating to private and personal feelings and attitudes as opposed to facts and reality.

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subtext

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the implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of an essay or other work.

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syllogism

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a form of deductive reasoning in which given certain ideas or facts, other ideas or facts must follow, as in All men are mortal; Mike is a man; therefore, Mike is a mortal.

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symbolism

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the use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object.

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synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole. When the name of a material stands for the thing itself, as in pigskin for football, that, too, is synecdoche.

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snytax

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the organization or language into meaningful structure; every sentence has a particular syntax, or pattern of words.

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theme

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the main idea or meaning, often an abstract idea upon which an essay or other form of discourse is built.

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thesis

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the main idea of a piece of discourse; the statement or proposition that a speaker or writer wishes to advance, illustrate, prove, or defend.

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tone

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the author's attitude toward the subject being written about. the tone is that characteristic emotion that pervades a work or part of a work-- the spirit or quality that is the work's emotional essence.

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tragedy

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a form of literature in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and by a set of forces that cause the hero considerable anguish.

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transition

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a stylistic device used to create a link between ideas.

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trope

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the generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor.

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understatement

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a restrained statement that departs from what could be said.

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verbal irony

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a discrepancy between the true meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the written or spoken words.

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verse

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a synonym for poetry; also a group of lines a song or poem; also a single line of poetry

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versimilitude

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similar to the truth; the quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is.

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voice

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the real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker.

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whimsy

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an object, device, or creation that is fanciful or rooted in unreality.

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wit

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the quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by their unexpectedness; the power to comment subtly and pointedly on the foibles of the passing scene.