english glossary vocab
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- rhetoric
- the emotional language/style of a work used to convince or sway an audience
- rhetorical mode
- identifies discourse according to its chief purpose
- rhetorical question
- a question asked for effect to which the audience already knows the answer
- rhetorical stance
- language that conveys a speaker's attitude or opinion with reagrd to a particular subject
- rhyme
- the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals
- rhythm
- the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up speech and writing
- romance
- an extended narrative about imporbably events and extraordinary people in exotic places
- sarcasm
- a sharp, caustic attitude conveyed in words through jibes, taunts, or other remarks
- satire
- a literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea or vice often for the purpose of inducing change
- sentence structure
- the arrangement of the parts of a sentence
- sentiment
- a refined and tender emotion in literature; view/feeling
- sentimental
- describes characters' excessive emotional response to experience
- setting
- the time and place of a story
- simile
- a figurative comparison using the words like or as
- stream of consciousness
- the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind
- style
- the manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, forms sentences, and creates a structure to convery ideas
- stylistic devices
- diction, syntax, tone, figurative language, and all other elements that contribute to the "style" of a piece of discourse
- subject complement
- a grammatical unit that is comprised of predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
- subjective
- of or relation to private and personal feelings and attitudes as opposed to facts and reality
- subtext
- the implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of an essay or other work
- syllogism
- the use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object.
- synecdoche
- a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part.
- syntax
- orginization of language into meaningful structure
- theme
- the main idea of a story or the message that the author is trying to get across
- thesis
- the main idea of a piece of discourse
- tone
- the author's attitude toward the subject being written about
- tragedy
- a form of literature in whcih the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and by a set of forces that cause the hero anguish
- transition
- a stylistic device used to create a link between ideas
- trope
- generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor