Literary Terms
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- rhetorical modes
- the variety the conventions and the purposes of the major kinds of writing
- Analogy
- a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
- irony
- the contrast between what is started explicitly and what is really meant
- genre
- major category into which a literary work fits, prose poetry and drama
- Clause
- a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb
- tone
- the author's attitude toward his or her material
- Colloquial
- the use of slang or informalities
- syntax
- the way an author chooses to join words into phrases
- figurative language
- writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning
- Connotation
- the nonliteral meaning of a word
- paradox
- a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense
- periodic sentence
- a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end
- style
- an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending dictiction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices
- loose sentence
- a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first
- hyperbole
- deliberate exaggeration
- parody
- a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect
- denotation
- the strict literal dictionary definition
- diction
- the writer's word choices
- Allusion
- a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known
- satire
- a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule
- parallelism
- the rhetorical framing of words to give structural similarity
- didactic
- words whos aim is to teach