2nd Set SAT Words
Terms
undefined, object
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- imagery
- The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. We refer to visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory imagery
- inference/infer
- To draw reasonable conclusion from the information presented
- invective
- An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation
- irony/ironic
- The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant
- loose sentence
- A type of sentence if which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical clauses
- metaphor
- A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things "The world is a stage"
- metonomy
- Sustitute name, the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it
- mood
- The second meaning is literary, meaning the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work
- narrative
- The telling of a story
- onomatopoeia
- A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of the words
- oxymoron
- A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox
- paradox
- A statement that appears to be self-contradictory but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity
- parallelism
- parallel construction/structure grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences
- parody
- A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
- pedantic
- Adjective that describes the word, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish
- periodic sentence
- A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end
- personification
- A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions
- point of view
- Perspective from which a story is told
- predicate adjectives
- An adjective, group of adjectives, or adjecive clause that follows a linking verb
- predicate nominative
- A noun, group of nouns, or a noun clause that renames the subject
- prose
- One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, because they are written in ordinairy language
- repetition
- The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern
- rhetoric
- The principle governing the art of writing effectively
- rhetorical modes
- Variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing