Terms Triple Play List A
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Allusion | A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical - Patrick Henry urged his listeners not to be "betrayed with a kiss." |
| Connotation | The implied or associated meaning of a word - "Odor" and "fragrance" literally mean the same thing, but good things have fragrance, bad things, odor. |
| Denotation | The literal meaning of a word - Although the word " home" may suggest safety and comfort, it's really simply " one's residence". |
| Diction | Having to do with word choices made by a writer-Hemingway uses few polysyllabic words; Dickens uses many polysyllabic words. |
| Syntax | The manner in which words are arranged by a writer into sentences - A single sentence in a Faulkner work can sometimes be longer than an entire page, but Steinbeck tends to use simpler, shorter sentences. |
| Tone | The attitude of a writer, usually implied, toward the subject or audience - Sardonic, Apologetic, light-hearted, somber |
| Colloquialism | Informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing - Huck Finn says "I got the fantods" to describe his nervousness and says "shin" instead of "run." |
| Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant - In Victorian times, ladies were said to "glisten" rather than to "sweat" or "perspire." |
| Oxymoron | An expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined - "Jumbo shrimp, Sweet sorrow Little giant" |
| Personification | Endowing non-human objects or creatures with human qualities or characteristics - the smiling, friendly sun was about to be swallowed by the angry clouds moving in from the south. |
| Anaphora | The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of the consecutive lines or sentences - "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves." |
| Analogy | A comparison between two different things which are similar in some way - By comparing conducting to politics, Igor Stravinsky helped non-musicians understand his feelings about orchestra conductors. |
| Invective | An intensely vehement, high emotional verbal attack - "My opponent is a lying, cheating, immoral bully." |
| Paradox | An apparently contradictory statement which actually contains some truth - Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. |
| Parody | A humorous imitation of a serious work - Spaceballs and the space epic genre: Hot Shots and action films; Thin Thighs in Thirty Years and exercise books. |
| Symbol | An object which is something in itself yet is used to represent something else. - The dove=peace; the hawk=war. |
| Aphorism | A concise statement, which expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance - "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." |
| Hyperbole | Intentional exaggeration to create an effect - There were at least a million people at the mall when I went shopping Saturday. |
| Apostrophe | The act of speaking directly to an absent or imaginary person, or go some abstraction - "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" |
| Metonymy | Substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it - "The White House issued a statement today." |
| Didactic | Something which has as its primary purpose to teach or instruct - Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography shows his readers how to be successful; Aesop's Fables present morals. |
| Genre | A major category or type of literature - Paradise Lost is an epic poem; The Scarlet Letter is a novel; Into Thin Air is nonfiction. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word formed from the imitation of natural sounds - The fire crackled in the fireplace. We could hear the buzzing of the bees in the hive. |
| Litotes | A type of understatement in which something affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite - My parents were not overjoyed when I came home three hours past my curfew. |
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