Literary Term #4
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- Rhetoric
- from the Greek for "orator"
- Point of View
- in literature, the perspective from from which the story is told
- Ethos
- establishes credibility in the speaker
- Repetition
- the duplication, either exact or approximate
- Periodic sentence
- a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end
- Predicate nominative
- a second type of subject complement
- The third person narrator
- relates the events with the third person pronouns, "he," "she," and "it"
- Rhetorical appeal
- the persuasive device by which a writer tries to ssay the audience's attention and response to any given work
- Personification
- a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts
- Predicate adjective
- one type of subject complement
- Pathos
- plays on the reader's emotions and interests
- Prose
- one of the major divisions of genre, "prose"
- Logos
- employs logical reasoning
- Pedantic
- an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish
- First person narrator
- tells the story with the first person pronoun "I", and is a character in the story