1. LITERARY TERMS 6 Satire - end

2. SATIRE  Type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change.

8. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS  style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character’s mind

9. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me and Darl " (p. 51 ). As I Lay Dying

10. SUSPENSE  A feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story

11. SYNTAX  the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

12. SYNTACTIC FLUENCY  Able to create a variety of sentence structure, appropriately complex and/or simple

13. SYNTACTIC PERMUTATION  Sentences that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for the reader to follow

14. SYNTACTIC PERMUTATION  They were ready to go to church; the beautiful bride, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Pross – to whom the event, through a gradual process of reconcilement to the inevitable, would have been one of absolute bliss, but for the yet lingering consideration that her brother Solomon should have been the bridegroom.” Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

15. TELEGRAPHIC SENTENCE  A sentence shorter than five words in length.

16. STACCATO  “ I’m bored.” – Staccato  Sentence of 3 words or fewer

17. TRICOLON  Sentences of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses

18. THIS GREAT NATION WILL ENDURE AS IT HAS ENDURED, WILL REVIVE AND WILL PROSPER. SO, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME ASSERT MY FIRM BELIEF THAT THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF - NAMELESS, UNREASONING, UNJUSTIFIED TERROR WHICH PARALYZES NEEDED EFFORTS TO CONVERT RETREAT INTO ADVANCE." tricolon

19. WHAT A TIME WE HAD: SPLASHED THROUGH BOGS, ATE LIKE HOGS, SLEPT LIKE LOGS." (HOLLING VINCOEUR, NORTHERN EXPOSURE ) Tricolon (TRY- ko-lon)

20.  TELL ME AND I FORGET. TEACH ME AND I REMEMBER. INVOLVE ME AND I LEARN." (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN) THINK WE'VE ALL ARRIVED AT A VERY SPECIAL PLACE. SPIRITUALLY, ECUMENICALLY, GRAMMATICALLY." (JACK SPARROW, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN)

21. A STATEMENT THAT SAYS LESS THAN WHAT IS MEANT understatement

22.  IT WAS O.K.” IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT IF SOMEONE WHO GOT THE HIGHEST SCORE IN A TEST SAID THIS WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS RESULT. IT IS A BIT COLD TODAY,” WHEN THE TEMPERATURE IS 5 DEGREES BELOW FREEZING understatement

23. UNDERSTATEMENT USING DOUBLE NEGATIVES litotes

24. LITOTES  They do not seem the happiest couple around.  William Shakespeare was not a bad playwright at all.

25. VERNACULAR  Language of the common people rather than national standard language  Spoken by people who live in a certain region

26. I hadn’t had a bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage and greens—there ain’t nothing in the world so good when it’s cooked right—and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time....We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” - Mark Twain