Snodgrass Terms
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- Colloquial (diction)
- Ordinary or familiar type of conversation
- Appositive
- A word placed beside a noun to supplement its meaning. "Bob, the lumber yard worker, "
- Periodic Sentence
- Main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence
- Interrogative sentence
- Asks a question
- Jargon (diction)
- Diction used by a group which practices a similar profession
- Connotation (diction)
- associations suggested by the word
- Theme
- Central idea or message of the work
- Sentence
- Group of words that expresses a complete thought
- Transition
- Smooth movement from one paragraph/idea to another
- Ambiguity
- An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way
- Sarcasm
- A generally bitter comment that is ironically worded
- Dramatic
- When the audience knows something the character doesn't
- Figurative Language
- Writing not meant to be taken literally
- Diction
- word choice
- Symbol
- Something that stands for something else
- Balanced sentence
- Two parallel elements are set off against each other "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"
- Rhetorical Question
- Questions not meant to be answered but asked for effect
- Denotation (diction)
- Literal meaning of the word
- Ellipsis
- Deliberate omission of a word from prose done for effect
- Parallelism
- Sentences constructed grammatically equal
- Paradox
- A contradictory statement which is actually true "You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get experience without a job"
- Imperative sentence
- Issues a command
- Syntax
- Grammatical arrangement of words
- Personification (figurative language)
- Giving human like qualities to something that isn't human
- Thesis
- The sentence/group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion or purpose
- Allusion
- An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familier
- Situation Irony
- When something makes you laugh because it's funny how it turned out
- Juxtaposition
- Placing things side by side to compare
- Parenthetical Idea
- Parentheses used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence
- Annotation
- Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, clarify or prompt further thought
- Clause
- Grammatical unit that contains a subject and a verb
- Antithesis (parallelism)
- Two opposite words/phrases with parallel structures "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
- Loose Sentence
- A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows
- Attitude of the author
- Same as tone
- Passive Voice
- The subject of the sentences receives the action
- Oxymoron
- contradictory terms are gouped together and suggest a paradox "jumbo shrimp"
- Declarative sentence
- Sates an idea
- Anaphora (parallelism)
- Repetition of a word at the beginning of two sentences or more
- Verbal Irony
- When you say something and mean the opposite
- Genre
- Category into which literary work fits
- Active Voice
- The subject of the sentence performs the action
- Irony
- When the opposite of what you expect to happen does
- Satire
- A work that reveals a critical attitude some ellement of life to a humorous effect
- Simple sentence
- one independent clause
- Analogy
- A comparison to a directly parallel case.
- Euphemism
- A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a unpleasant word or concept. For example vertically challenged instead of short
- Simile (figurative language)
- Using like or as to make a direct comparison between two different things
- Metaphor (figurative language)
- Making an implied comparison not using like or as
- Compound sentence
- Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent
- Parody
- An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous perposes
- compound-complex
- Contains two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent
- Allegory (didactic)
- A story fictional or non fictional in which characters represent qualities or concepts. The interactions of these characters/things/events are meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth.
- Gothic
- Writing characaterized by gloomy, mystery, fear and/or death. Refers to architectural style of the middle ages