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| A form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus it id a story with two meanings, a litertal meaning and a symbolic meaning. |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middel of two or more adjacent words. |
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| A refence in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge. |
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| a brief narrative offered to the audience to capture attention or support a generalization. |
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| The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in a parallel structure. Ex. "Place your virtues of a pedestal and your vices under a rock." |
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| Type of soliloquy where nature is addressed as though human. |
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| A carefully structured, well-supported representation of how and author sees and issue, problem, or situation. |
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| A diagram showing the realtionship between writer/speaker, audience, and text. |
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| The person or persons who listen to a spoken text or read a written one and are capable of responding to it. |
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| The unlitimate conclusion, generalization, or point that a syllogism or enthymeme expresses. The point, backed up by support, of an argument. |
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| A sentence with one or more independtent clause and one or more dependent clause. |
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| COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE |
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| A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clause. |
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| A sentence with two or more independent clauses. |
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| The implied meaning of a word in a contrast to its direct meaning. The ideas associated with a word. |
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| The literal or "dictionary definition" of a word, in contast to its connotation, or implied meaning. |
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| Inclulded facts, oberservations, and incidents to develop subject and voice. Specific details create a precise mental picture. |
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| Word choice. (specific and strategic) |
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| One who changes during the course of a narrative. |
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| A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name. Ex. Richard the Lion-Hearted |
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| An extended passage that implies if two things are similat in one way that are probably similar in others. |
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| An indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact-for example, saying a person's position was emlimated rather than saying the person was fired. |
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| Language dominated by the use of schemes and tropes. |
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| A figure readily identifiable by menory traits but not fully developed. |
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| A piece of writing classified by type-for example , letter narrative, eulogy, or editoral |
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| An exaggeration for effect. |
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| Language that evokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader. The language usually appeals to the senses and creates images in the readers' minds. |
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| Writing or speaking that implies the contrary t owhat is acutally written or said. Results that are different from the expected. |
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| An implied comparsion that does not use the word like or as- for example, "His voice was a cascade of emotion"; the most important of all troops. |
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| A feeling that a text is intended to produce in a audience. |
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| A literary device when the sound of a word is related to its meaning, i.e. buzz. |
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| Juxtaposed words with seemingly contrary meaning. Ex. jumbo shimp |
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| A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence or paragraph. |
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| The perpective of source of a piece of writing . A first person point of view has a narrator or speaker who refers to himself or herself as "I". A third person point of view lacks such as "I" in its perspective. |
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| A play on words. Example "THe spolied turkey meat was fowl, most foul." |
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| The art of analyzing the choices invovling language that a writer/speaker might make so the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective. The analysis of the text's features. |
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| A type of comparrison that uses the word like or as. |
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| In a text, an element that stands for more than itself and, therefore, helps to convey a theme of the text. |
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| A message conveyed through a literary work. |
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| The main idea, generalization, or claim of a text. |
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| The speaker or writer's attuitde toward the subject matter. |
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An untrustworthy or commentator on events and characters in the story. |
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