Rhetorical terms 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ellipsis | The omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced for the context. |
| Epistrophe | Repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. |
| Epithet | A word or phrase used positively or negatively that characterizes or describes a person or thing, added to or replacing a name. |
| Euphemism | The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. |
| Figure of Speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things. Examples are apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement. |
| Flashback | A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. |
| Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor. |
| Idiom | An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up. |
| Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience. |
| Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. |
| Dramatic Irony | Occurs when when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't. |
| Situational Irony | A type of irony in which an outcome occurs that turns out to be very different from what was expected; the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does. |
| Verbal Irony | In this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning. |
| Jargon | Specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject. |
| Juxtaposition | The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development. |
| Litotes | A type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. |
| Mixed Metaphor | A combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect. |
| Extended Metaphor | The comparison between two things is continued beyond the first point of comparison. This extends and deepens a description. |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. |
| Mood | Atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
| Motif | A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary work. |
| Onomatopoeia | Using words that imitate the sound they denote. |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms. |
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