| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Irony | The use of reversal, when what is said in a message is in conflict with the truth, character, ect. |
| Jargon | Vocabulary that is limited to a specific occupation |
| Lexicon | Level of language register |
| Limited Omniscience POV | Almost all knowing narrator |
| Litotes | A deliberate understatement that serves as a statement. Ex. That was no small task. |
| Logical Fallacy | Way of supporting facts that are not logically sound. |
| Loose Sentence | The topic or point is in the beginning. |
| Lyric | Verse that focuses in an idea or emotion. It is not a narrative. |
| Malapropism | Word similar to another that is mistakenly substituted . |
| Meiosis | Understatement to belittle or put down. Ex.: A lawyer defending a schoolboy who has set fire to his school might call the act of arson a "prank." In this case using meiosis to attempt to diminish the significance of what he had done (in this case grand arson) to the level of a harmless joke or minor act of vandalism. |
| Metaphor | Direct comparison of two different things without like or as. It is more powerful than simile. |
| Metonymy | A type of metaphorical language or metaphor. It refers to something by referring to something related to it. Ex. Police and Badge |
| Microcosm | View of the world through something small. Ex. Lord of the Flies |
| Mock Ironic | To belittle at various degrees |
| Monody | Praise for the death of a person. Ex. "He's in a better place." |
| Mood | Atmosphere and tone |
| Motif | A subset of theme, it is a reappearing object or thing that is symbolic of something. |
| Narrative | A story |
| Narrative Devices | Tools used to tell the story. |
| Non sequitor | A break in logical progression. All logical fallacies are non sequitors |
| Novel | A long story |
| Novelle | A piece longer than a short story, but not as long as a novel. Ex. Billy Budd |
| Objective POV | Unbiased in perspective |
| Omniscient POV | All knowing and god-like in knowledge narrator |
| Onomatopoeia | Word for which the sound suggests its meaning |
| Organization | The subset of structure, it is how the piece is put together. |
| Oxymoron | A contradictory term Ex. Civil War, Jumbo Shrimp. |
| Paradox | Statement that appears to be false but is true in reality. It is used to further an argument |
| Parody | Mocking of something serious in the same structure of the serious object. |
| Pathetic Fallacy | Fallacy of emotion |
| Pedantic/ Bombastic | The attempt of using elevated language. It is overly educated and does not fit. |
| Persona | The image, point of view, persona, and tone one assumes. |
| Personification | Attributing human qualities to an inanimate object. |
| Persuasive | to convince using emotion. Synonymous with argumentative on the test. |
| Persuasive Devices | Tools used to persuade. It is a form of rhetoric. |
| Phrase point of view | Angle from which something is being written or told. |
| Polysyndeton | Shoves "ands" and conjunctions to link ideas, things, ect. It too creates a sense of overwhelming |
| Prose | A form that is not poetry |
| Protagonist | Main character |
| Pun | Humorous play on words |
| Qualifying | Use to adjust or modify the precedent or after. |
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