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| A judge who decides a disputed issue |
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| To free from guilt or blame |
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| Not in favor of one side or the other; unbiased |
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| Not able to be denied or disputed |
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| Trustworthiness; completeness |
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| Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices |
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| Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds |
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| Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible |
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| Supported with proof or evidence; verified |
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| Treating people as weak or inferior |
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| Excersising absolute power; tyrannical |
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| Domineering; oppressively overbearing |
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N- contempt; scorn
V- to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on |
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| Arrogantly domnieering or overbearing |
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| Treating in a condescending manner |
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| special vocab of members of a proffesion or trade |
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Type of figurative language with changes in ordinary meaning of words/phrases
EX: Metaphors, similes, analogies, signifying, hyperbole, understatements, rhetorical questions, antonomasia, and irony |
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special arrangement of words
EX: parallel structure, antithesis, inverted word order, anaphora (repetition), and reversed structure |
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| Used to compare items to clarify an argument (doesn't use "like" or "as") |
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| Makes a detailed description using "like" or "as". |
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stress points of comparison (this is to that as that is to this type structure) Look at some examples to further understand it.
"If the aircraft industry had evolved as spectatularly as the computer industry, a Boeing 767 would cost 500 dollars today and circle the globe in 20 minutes."
If the aircraft industry is to the comptuer industry, then a Boeing 767 is to 500 dollars... etc |
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| Speaker cleverly needles (insults) the listener; used mostly by African-Americans |
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| Overstatement/exaggeration for a special effect |
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| mutes message to make its point effectively (modest about the point) |
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| Questions that don't require an answer because it is either implied or answered already through context. |
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| shorthand substitutions of a descriptive word "His Airness" |
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| Opposite of what should be expected |
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| Grammatically similar in structure, often has anaphoras (repetitions) as well |
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| Uses parallel structures, but often contrasts a certain point |
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| Use of repetitions or referring back to the same idea. |
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Inverted Word Order
Reversed Structures |
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1) Think Yoda "The dark side, you are on." Uses the verb last; if you switch the two it should make more sense.
2) Definition can be illustrated with the example:
"The Democrats won't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse until the Democrats get elected."
Notice that "democrats" comes first, and then it comes last.
"Unless things get worse" starts last, and then it's first. |
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