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| an event or situation that may be interpreted in more that one way, usually vague. Can be shown in manner of expression or artful language. |
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| repitition of initial identical consonant sounds. or, vowel sounds in successive words or syllables that repeat. |
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| word choice, particularly as an element of style. Different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning. An essay written in academic diction would be much less colorful, but perhaps more precise than street slang. |
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| Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal |
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| tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage;A brief statement of a principle |
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| Special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out; stress;Prominence given to a syllable, word, or words, as by raising the voice or printing in italic type |
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| rather than the dictionary definition, the associations suggested by the word. Implied rather than literal meaning or denotation. (not dictionary definition) |
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| The most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings. |
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| The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |
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| Speech or writing having unusual or pretentious vocabulary, convoluted phrasing, and vague meaning;The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group |
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| A trite or overused expression or idea;A person or character whose behavior is predictable or superficia |
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| a word or words that are inaccurate literally, but describe by calling to mind sensations or responses that the thing described evokes. May be in the form of metaphors or similies, both wich are non-literal compaiosons. |
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| Being in accordance with, conforming to, or upholding the exact or primary meaning of a word or words;Avoiding exaggeration, metaphor, or embellishment; factual; prosaic;Conforming or limited to the simplest, nonfigurative, or most obvious meaning of a word or words |
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| when a reader is aware of a reality that differs from a character's perception of reality. |
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| a comparison of two things often unrelated. A figurative verbal equation where both "parts" illuminate one another. |
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| To state with less completeness or truth than seems warranted by the facts;To express with restraint or lack of emphasis, especially ironically or for rhetorical effect |
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| To state in exaggerated terms |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton |
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| Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous;Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression |
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| Of, relating to, or contained in the Bible. 2. Being in keeping with the nature of the Bible, especially: a. Suggestive of the personages or times depicted in the Bible. b. Suggestive of the prose or narrative style of the King James Bible. |
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| Executed, carried out, or done in proper or regular form;Following or being in accord with accepted forms, conventions, or regulations |
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| Not being in accord with prescribed regulations or forms; unofficial;Being more appropriate for use in the spoken language than in the written language |
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| not following generally accepted rules |
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| Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules;These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects;an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning |
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| Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy |
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| a story, fictional or nonfictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. The interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or truth. The characters and other elements may ve symbolic of the ideas referred to. |
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| a seemingly contradictory statememt which is actually true. This rhetoricla device is often used for emphasis or simply to attract attention |
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| a rhetorical antithesis. comparing and contrasting two contradictory terms, like "wise fool" |
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| the use of a word whose pronounciation suggests its meaning. "buzz, hiss, pop, slam" |
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| a term used to describe fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. |
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| To hold back or keep in check; control; to limit |
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| The study or science of meaning in language;The meaning or the interpretation of a word, sentence, or other language form |
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| characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms |
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| Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words |
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| Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance;The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect |
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| Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant;Presented in clear and striking manner; graphic;Perceived or felt with the freshness of immediate experience;Active in forming lifelike images |
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| The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language; dialect; |
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| To give a false or misleading account of |
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| Expressed or performed with emphasis;Forceful and definite in expression or action;Standing out in a striking and clearly defined way |
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| A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past;homesick |
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| quarrelsome;controversial |
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| Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure;To write prose; To speak or write in a dull, tiresome style |
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| Denunciatory or abusive language; vituperation;Of, relating to, or characterized by denunciatory or abusive language |
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| Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past |
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| Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise |
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| Peculiar to or characteristic of the style or manner of a particular group or people. |
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| sentence construction which places in close proximity two or more equal grammatical constructions. May be simple as listing two or three modifiers in a row to describe the sma enoun or verb; it may take the form of two or more of the same type of phrase (prepositional, participial, gerund, appositive) that modify the same noun or verb; it may also take the form of two subordinate clauses that modify the same noun or verb. Or, may be a complex blend of single-word, phrase, and clause all in the same sentence. |
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| Passage from one subject to another in discourse;A word, phrase, sentence, or series of sentences connecting one part of a discourse to another |
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| A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence |
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| A sequence of words intended to have meaning;Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence;A characteristic way or mode of expression;A word or group of words read or spoken as a unit and separated by pauses or other junctures |
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| sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements. |
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