Rhetorical terms #61-75
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- Exegesis
- Involves an extensive and critical interpretation of an authoritative text, especially of a holy scripture, such as of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Qur'an, etc.
- Genre
- A particular type of literature, a literary form.
- Extended metaphor
- A sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors
- Free verse
- Has no rules whatsoever, the lines are irregular and may or may not rhyme.
- Figure of speech
- Expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that makes imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations.
- Hubris
- It is a negative term implying both arrogant, excessive self-pride or self-confidence, and also a hamartia, a lack of some important perception or insight due to pride in one's abilities.
- Fable
- A short story with a didactic purpose--illustrating a moral or general truth about human nature, frequently allegorical, in nature, and often ending with an epigram.
- Figurative language
- Language that contains figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal.
- Expose
- Exposure or a revolation of something descridable.
- Flashback
- Memories of a character or background material related by the narrator about actions that occurred before the time of the narrative. Flashbacks break the narrative sequence in order to provide insights into characters or situations in the present.
- Freight train sentence
- Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions
- Foreshadowing
- Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative. Foreshadowing often provides hints about what will happen next.
- False analogy
- An unjustified inference drawn on the basis of similarities between two items or types of items.
- Hamartia
- Tcharacter flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall