Vocabulary

Question 1

Allegory

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The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.

Question 2

Antecedent

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The word or phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun

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Aphorism

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A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

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Conceit

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A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.

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Diction

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Related to style, diction refers to the writers word choices ecspecialky with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

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Didactic

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Didactic words have the primary aim of teaching or instructing

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Generic Conventions

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This term describes traditions for each genre. These conventions help define each genre

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Homily

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This term literally means sermon, but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

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Invective

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An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong anusive language.

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Litotes

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A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite

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Loose sentence/non-periodic sentence

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A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses

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Metonymy

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A term from the Greek meaning “changed label” or “substitute name” is a figure if speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.

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Anaphora

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When exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences

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Pedantic

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An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish

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Prose

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One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction including all its forms

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Rhetorical modes

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Exposition, argumentation, narration, description

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Satire

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A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions an conventions for reform or ridicule

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Style

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An evaluation of the sum of the choices and author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices.

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Subject Complement

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The word or clause that follows a linking verb and complements or completes the subject of the sentence by either renaming or describing

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Subordinate clause

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Like all clauses, this word group contains both a subject and verb, but cannot stand alone

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Syllogism

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Is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole or occasionally the while is used to represent a part

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Synesthesia

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When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another

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Syntax

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The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, or sentences