English Terms
Terms
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- anecdote
- a brief narrative that recounts an episode from a person's experience
- colloquial language
- the language of conversation, including contracton (don't can't) and informal words and expression (hot for new boss for employer ad for advertisement) also called informal
- analysis/division
- the method of development in which a subject is separated into its elements or parts and then reassembled into a new whole
- ambiguity
- multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, or a word phrase, sentence or passage
- denotation
- the words literal meaning
- allusion
- a brief reference to a real or fictitious person, place, object, or event
- chronological order
- a pattern of organization in which events are arranged as they occurred over time, earliest to latest
- connotation
- the associations or suggestions that go beyond a words literal meaning (notorious)
- body
- the part of an essay that develops the main idea
- anaphora
- the repeating of the exact words for effect
- antithesis
- a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure
- concrete word
- refers to an object, person, place, or state that we can percieve with our senses: lawnmower, teacher, Chicago. These words make writing specific and vivid
- audience
- the group of readers for whom a particular word is intended
- cliche
- an expression that has becom tired from overuse and that therefore deadens rather than enlivens writing
- conclusion
- the endings of written works
- cause-and-effect analysis
- the methods of development in which occurences are divided into their elements to find what made an even happen and the consequences were
- argument
- the form of writing that appeals to readers' reason and emotions in order to win agreement with a claim or to compel some action. This definition encompasses both argument in a narrower and persuasion the appeal to emotion to compel action
- abstract word
- refers to an idea qulaity, attitude, or state that we cannot perceive with our senses: democracy, generosity, love, grief. It conveys a general concept or impression
- analogy
- a point-by-point comparison
- comparison and contrast
- the method of development in which the similarities and differences between subjects are examined the two are generally used together
- classification
- the method of development in which the members of a group are sorted into classes or subgroups according to shared characteristics