English 2 lit quiz
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. |
| irony | when reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning verbal ironythe words literally state the opposite of the writers meaning situational irony- when events turn out the opposite of what was expected dramatic irony when facts or events are unkown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but known to the reader or other characters in the work |
| litotes | a form of understatement in which a statement is affirmed by negating its opposite |
| losses sentance/ non-periodic sentence | main idea comes first followed by dependant grammatical units such as phrases or clause. a work containing many loose sentences seem conversational |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |
| mood | a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude |
| narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. |
| onomatopeia | the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other |
| anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences |
| parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner |
| pedantic | An adjective that describes words, 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. The independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone. The effect is to add emphasis and structural variety. |
| personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told first person narrative-i third person-he,she third person omniscent- narrator god like third person limited omniscientpresents felling and thouts of one only actions of the remaining characters |
| prose | One of the major divisions of genre, ___ refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms, because they are written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech. |
| repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. |
| rhetoric | from the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principle governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. |
| rhetorical modes | The flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. exposition explain and analyze info by presenting an idea argumentation- prove validity of an idea by presenting sound reasoning description- recreat an event so the reader can picture what is being described narration-to narrate a series of events |
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