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| writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach. The work is usually formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns. This type of writing may be fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. |
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| from the Greek for "beside one another," the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity |
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| denotes an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and easily memorable form. |
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An explicit or implicit reference to a fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event,
outside the story. |
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| is generally the noun or noun phrase to which an anaphor refers in a co reference. |
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| a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y’all, ain’t) |
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| an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish |
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| interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent. |
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| a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
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| implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association in the reader’s mind. |
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| intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights |
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| a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable. “He went to his final reward” is a common saying for “he died.” These are also often used to obscure the reality of a situation. The military uses “collateral damage” to indicate civilian deaths in a military operation. |
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| the ironic mineralizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is |
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| an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices; or, classification of authors to a group and comparion of an author to similar authors |
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| literal meaning of a word as defined |
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| Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity |
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| word choice, an element of style; it creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning. Different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning. An essay written in academic ______ would be much less colorful, but perhaps more precise than street slang. |
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| from the Greek for "to tear flesh," involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something |
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| the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences |
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| a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity |
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| a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule |
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| a word or phrase consists in its having more than one meaning |
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| Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. |
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| an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language |
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| to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented |
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| the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant |
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| from the Greek for "pointedly foolish," author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox |
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| the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events |
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| similar to mood, describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both |
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| the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions |
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A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible
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| Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence. |
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| can be a spoken or textual comparison between two words (or sets of words) to highlight some form of semantic similarity between them. |
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| can be used to describe a character who presents the exact opposite as to personality type or moral outlook to another character in a particular piece of literature |
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| The emotional feelings inspired by a work. |
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| descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality. |
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| an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. |
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| a sustained comparison often referred to as a conceit. The extended metaphor is developed throughout a piece of writing |
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| literally "sermon", or any serious talk, speech, or lecture providing moral or spiritual advice |
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| a figure of speech in which a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite. For example, rather than merely saying that a person is rather attractive (or even very attractive), one might say that he or she is "not unattractive". |
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| a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units |
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| a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity |
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| from the Greek "changed label", the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it (e.g. "The White House" for the President) |
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| the verbal units and a speaker's attitude (indicative, subjunctive, imperative); literarily, the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a word |
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| natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words (e.g. buzz, hiss) |
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| a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end |
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| a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions |
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| the art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse; Rhetoric focuses on the interrelationship of invention, arrangement, and style in order to create felicitous and appropriate discourse. |
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| a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule |
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| the branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development (etymology), their connotations, and their relation to one another |
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| from the Greek for "reckoning together," a deductive system of fromal logic that presents two premises (first "major," second "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion (eg All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, Socrates is mortal) |
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| anything that represents or stands for something else (natural, conventional, literary) |
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| figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using “boards” to mean a stage or “wheels” to mean a car – or “All hands on deck.” |
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| - involves taking one type of sensory input (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) and comingling it with another separate sense in an impossible way. In the resulting figure of speech, we end up talking about how a color sounds, or how a smell looks. |
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| the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life |
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| in expository writing, the thesis statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition |
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| a word or phrase that links different ideas |
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