Praxis 0041 Tough Terms
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- Satire
- a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
- Regional Literature
- refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features – including characters, dialects, customs, history, and topography – of a particular region
- Literary Naturalism
- was a literary movement taking place from 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character
- grammar
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The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
b. The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history. - apostrophe
- extended metaphor
- imperfect or slant rhyme
- rhymes that are close but not exact: lap/shape, glorious/nefarious.
- topos
- referred in the context of classical Greek rhetoric to a standardised method of constructing or treating an argument.
- ethos
- moral, showing moral character
- logos
- , the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos
- epigram
- brief, clever, and usually memorable statement
- doublespeak
- (sometimes called doubletalk) is any language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words, resulting in a communication bypass.
- semantics
- the meaning of the text
- medieval morality plays
- Morality plays are a type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil
- independent clause
- is a clause that can stand by itself, also known as a simple sentence. An independent clause contains a subject and a predicate;
- Past Participle
- A participle indicating a completed action or state.
- misplaced modifier
- is simply a word or phrase describing something but not placed near enough the word it is supposed to modify
- literary realism
- refers to the trend, beginning with certain works of nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors in various countries, towards depictions of contemporary life and society "as they were."
- literary colonialism
- literature often involves writings that deal with issues of de-colonization or the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule
- vernacular
- mother language, and less frequently one sense of idiom[1] and dialect,[2] is the native language of a population located in a country or in a region defined on some other basis, such as a locality.
- Homonymy
- in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings
- Fricative
- A consonant, such as f or s in English, produced by the forcing of breath through a constricted passage.
- syntax
- is the study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages.
- affix
- morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-
- suffix
- suffix (also sometimes called a postfix or ending) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
- cavalier poets
- a broad description of a school of English poets of the 17th century, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. Much of their poetry is light in style, and generally secular in subjec
- literary symbol
- combines the literal and the abstract
- Paradox
- statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition.
- Epistolary novel
- is also called a novel of letters, because the narration takes place in the form of letters, possibly journal entries
- New Historicism
- simultaneously to understand the work through its historical context
- Deductive Reasoning
- Deductive arguments are generally evaluated in terms of their validity and soundness. An argument is valid if it is impossible both for its premises to be true and its conclusion to be false. An argument can be valid even though the premises are false
- syllogism
- logical appeal is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two others (the premises) of a certain form
- logical fallacy
- is a mistake in reasoning
- John Donne
- major representative of the metaphysical poets
- Romanticism
- "Romanticism" has been used to refer to certain artists, poets, writers, musicians, as well as political, philosophical and social thinkers of the late 18th and early to mid 19th centuries
- Realism
- most often refers to the trend, beginning with certain works of nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors in various countries, towards depictions of contemporary life and society "as they were."