English Mid Terms
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- Denotation
- the precise, literal meaning
- Aestheticism
- reverence for beauty; beauty is more important than instructive content.
- Satire
- a form of literature that blends wit and ironic humor with directed criticism.
- Archetype
- A pattern or model of an action, a character, or an image that recurs consistently enough to be considered universal.
- Point of View
- the vantage point, or stance, from which the story is told.
- Utopia
- a desirable imaginary society.
- Euphemism
- the substitution of a mild term for a more offensive one.
- Onomatopoeia
- the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to. (Bam, pow, Fizz...)
- Syllogism
- a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion.
- Argument
- discourse intended to convince or persuade through appeals to reason or emotion.
- Didactic
- and text whose main purpse is to teach or instruct.
- Alliteration
- the repetition of the same sounds, usually initial consonants, in neighboring words.
- Consonance
- the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different (e.g. coming home, hot food.)
- Connotation
- a range of further, straight foward associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its original meaning.
- Digression
- a portion of written work that interrupts or pauses the development of the theme or plot.
- Tone
- the relection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject.
- Characterization
- a method to compare two characters.
- Reliability
- the extent to which a narrator can be believed or trusted.
- Allusion
- a reference to a well-known event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand.
- Couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and that are written to the same meter, or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- Personification
- a technique in which inanimate objects are referred to as they were living.
- Understatement
- a type of verbal irony in which something is far less important that it is.
- Genre
- a form of classification.
- Pedantic
- writing that boaders on lecturing.
- Voice
- the sense a written piece of work conveys to a reader.
- Allegory
- a story or visual image with a second distint meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning.
- Ambiguity
- a word with double or multiple meanings.
- Anecdote
- a brief narritive of an entertaining incident.
- Assonance
- the repetition of a similar vowel sound.
- Figurative Language
- language that contains figures of speach.