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13 Cards in this Set
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Real historical events and people written about, as though ficticious
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Roman a Clef
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A technique or method in modern narrative fiction which attempts to convey the characters' rambling thoughts.
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Stream of consciousness
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has subject and verb but cannot stand on its own
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Subordinate clause
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deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
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Syllogism
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A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises - the first one called major and the second called minor - which lead to a sound conclusion.
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Syllogism
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when one uses a part to represent the whole.
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Synecdoche
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Sentence structure
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Syntax
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circular argument
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Tautology
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Author's attitude towards his or her material.
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Tone
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Type of work, the writer mocks something serious by belittling it.
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Travesty
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describing something as less than it is
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Understatement
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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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hateful, extremely critical language
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Vituperative
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