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| A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. The effects are thought provoking and insightful about the human condition. |
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| The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. |
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| Two purposes: 1- An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices. 2- Classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors. |
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| The word or clauses that follows a linking verb and completes the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describing it. |
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| Like all clauses, this word group contains both a subject and a verb, but unlike the independent clause, it cannot stand alone because it does not express a complete thought. |
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A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that lead to a sound conclusion. Major premise: All men are mortal. Minor premise: Socrates is a man. Conclusion: Socrates is mortal. |
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| Anything that represents itself and stands for something else. Usually it is concrete- such as an object, action, character, or scene- that represents something more abstract. The three main categories are 1- natural, 2- conventional, and 3- literary. |
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| The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Similar to diction, but you can differentiate them by thinking of it as the groups of words, compared to diction which refers to the individual words. |
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| The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. |
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In expository writing, this statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, or position. |
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| Similar to mood, it describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. |
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| A word or phrase that links different ideas. |
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| The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant that it actually is. |
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| An attitude that may lie under the apparent tone of the piece. |
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| Intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. |
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