Term
|
Definition
| involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| (1) An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices. (2) Classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The word or clauses that follow a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| this word group contains both a subject and a verb, but unlike the independent clause, it cannot stand alone; it does not express a complete thought. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second, "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. The dean swims, the fish swims, therefore the dean is a fish. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| anything that represents itself and stands for something else. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Similar to mood, it describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A word or phrase that links different ideas. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas., a figure of speech involving a “turn” or change of sense. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The ironic minimizing of fact, it presents something as less significant than it is. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An untrustworthy or naïve commentator on events and characters in a story. Huck Finn is on of American literature’s most famous of this type. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a trope, one word (usually a noun or main verb) governs two other words not related in meaning. “He maintained a business and his innocence.” |
|
|
