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When Something is being done. "The cat 'ate' the mouse." |
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The Language Of Art. Often found in Realistic Art. |
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The repeated occurrence of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words in the same phrase. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" |
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| A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication. |
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Rhetoric - Can be a spoken or textual comparison between two words (or sets of words) to highlight some form of semantic similarity between them. Linguistics - A process that reduces word forms perceived as irregular by remaking them in the shape of more common forms that are governed by rules. Example: the American English past tense form of dive: dove, formed on analogy with words such as drive: drove. |
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| Not always the villain, but simply those who oppose the main character. |
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An abrupt declension (either deliberate or unintended) on the part of a speaker or writer from the dignity of idea which he appeared to be aiming at. "The great Dalhousie, he, the god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the earl of Mar." |
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Greek for "setting opposite" A counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition. |
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A punctuation mark It marks omissions, and it assists in marking the possessives of all nouns and many pronouns. Also assists in marking plurals. |
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Anecdotal Evidence [image] |
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| Evidence in the form of an anecdote or hearsay is called anecdotal if there is doubt about its veracity: the evidence itself is considered untrustworthy or untrue. |
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| The Pronoun 'Thou', which is very rarely used nowadays. Used to suggest biblical language or a dialect. |
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A literary device in that an actor speaks to the audience; he/she is not heard by the other characters. Usually a brief comment, and not a long speech like a monologue or solioquy. |
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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. "Do you like blue?", the "oo" (ou/ue) sound is repeated within the sentence |
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| Layer of gases that may surround a material body of sufficient mass, by the gravity of the body, and are retained for a longer duration if gravity is high and the atmosphere's temperature is low. |
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| A group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. |
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A biography written by its subject. Styled "as told to" or "with". Biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints; an autobiography however may be based entirely on the writer's memory. |
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