Literary Terms6
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- Understatement
- the ironic minimizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is
- Theme
- The central idea or message of a work
- Transition
- a word or phrase that links different ideas.
- Tone
- similar to mood, tone describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience or both.
- Meiosis
- the greek term for understatement or belittling
- Wit
- in modern usage, wit is...
- Conventional symbols
- are those that have been invested with meaning by a group
- Thesis
- in expository writing, the thesis statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion
- Literary symbols
- are sometimes also conventional in the sense that they are found in a variety of works and are generally recognized.
- Litotes
- a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite
- Syntax
- the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.