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refers to the writer’s word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness

What is diction?

A statement or type of composition intended to give information about (or an explanation of) an issue, subject, method, or idea.

What is exposition?

The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Refers to the groups of words.

What is syntax?

A word or phrase that links different ideas; effectively signals a shift from one ides to another.

What is a transition?

A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. From the Greek, "of equal members or clauses"

What is isocolon?

The ironic minimalizing of fact; it presents the fact as less serious than it is.

What is understatement?

Greek for meaning depth Greek for meaning depth. strictly speaking, refers to the expression of humor in a phrase, though done through the use of an incongruous or ironic combination of ideas in order to deliberately make the humorous aspect seem unintended

What is bathos?

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

What is synesthesia?

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

What is litotes?

From the Greek, "a yoking, a bond From the Greek, "a yoking, a bond.” The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.

What is zeugma?

A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things, or the substitution of one thing for another.

What is metaphor?

A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. (The literal Greek meaning is “overshoot.”)

What is hyperbole?

a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person’s distinctive physical features or other characteristics.

What is caricature?

A method of reasoning by which a rhetor collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances.

What is induction?

an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.

What is invective?

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food

What is a simile?

Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there

What is personification?

"O brawling love! O loving hate! . . . O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this."

What is oxymoron?

"One of these days, Alice. Pow! Right in the kisser!“

What is onomatopoeia?

All hands on deck.

What is synedoche?

The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work.

What is mood?

way in which something is spoken, written, or performed way in which something is spoken, written, or performed. Narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament discourse; broadly, as representing a manifestation of the person speaking or writing

What is style?

Describes the author’s attitude towards his material or audience or both.

What is tone?

The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author’s choice of objects that are described.

What is atmosphere?

From the Latin, "call" 1) The quality of a verb that indicates whether its subject acts or is acted upon. (2) The distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or narrator

What is voice?

novels and short stories, essays, biographies, autobiographies, lyric poetry, dramatic, narrative, epic, tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, autobiography, biography, diaries, criticism, essays, and journalistic, political, scientific, and nature writing.

What is genre?

The central idea or message of a work.

What is theme?

"Through Mansfield's skillful handling of point of view, characterization, and plot development, Miss Brill comes across as a convincing character who evokes our sympathy."

What is a thesis?

To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.

What is an inference/ to infer?

Anything that represents itself and stands for something else.

What is symbolism?

Final Jeopardy Make your wager

Comes from the Latin meaning “to the man Comes from the Latin meaning “to the man.” It refers to an argument that attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand.

What is an Ad Hominem Argument?