Snodgrass "Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms" AP ENG 11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abstract language | language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people or places |
| active voice | the subject of the sentence preforms the action |
| allusion | and indirect reference to something with which reader is supposed to be familiar |
| ambiguity | an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way |
| analogy | comparison to a directly parallel case |
| anecdote | a brief recounting of a relevant episode |
| annotation | explanatory notes added to text to explain, clarify, or prompt further thought |
| antecedent | the noun the pronoun stands for |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction |
| attitude of author | same as tone |
| classicism | art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world, sticks to traditional themes and structures |
| concrete language | describes specific, observable things, people or places; rather than ideas or qualities |
| diction | word choice |
| colloquial | ordinary or familiar type of conversation |
| connotation | associations suggested by the word rather than the literal meaning |
| denotation | the literal explicit meaning of a word |
| jargon | diction used by a group which practices similar profession or activity |
| vernacular | 1. language or dialect or a particular country 2. language or dialect or a regional group 3. plain everyday speech |
| didactic | describes fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson/moral |
| adage | folk saying with a lesson |
| allegory | a story (fictional or nonfictional) in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. Actions of characters is meant to reveal an abstraction or truth |
| aphorism | a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle |
| homily | "sermon" serious talk, speech or lecture |
| ellipsis | the deliberate omission on a word or prose done for effect by the author |
| epigram | short poem with a clever twist at the end |
| epigraph | a quotation for aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of theme |
| euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts |
| explication | the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text |
| figurative language | writing not meant to be taken literally |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| idiom | common often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally |
| metaphor | comparison NOT using like or as |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| personification | giving human like qualities to something hat is not human |
| genre | major category into which a literary work fits |
| gothic | writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and or death |
| imagery | word(s) used to paint a picture in the reader's mind |
| invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong abusive language |
| irony | when the opposite of what you expect to happen does happen |
| verbal irony | when you say the opposite of what is meant |
| dramatic irony | when the audience know something the character doesn't |
| situational irony | the opposite of the event you were anticipating occurs |
| juxtaposition | placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison |
| mood | atmosphere created by the literature |
| objectivity | the author's stance that distances himself from personal involvement |
| oxymoron | the apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox |
| parallelism/parallel structure | sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns |
| anaphora | repetition of word, phrase or clause and the beginning of two or more sentences in a row |
| antithesis | two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas with parallel structure |
| parenthetical idea | using parenthesis to set off an idea from the rest o the sentence |
| parody | an exaggerate imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes |
| passive voice | the subject of sentence receives the action |
| pedantic | observing strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expanse of of a wider view |
| persona | the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story |
| rhetoric | the art of effective communication |
| rhetorical question | question asked for effect rather than and answer |
| romanticism | art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the world, with an emphasis on nature |
| sarcasm | generally bitter comment that is ironically worded |
| satire | a work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to humorous effect |
| sentence | group of words that expresses a complete thought |
| appositive | a word or group of words placed beside a noun to supplement its meaning |
| clause | grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |
| independent clause | expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence |
| dependent clause | cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by and independent clause |
| simple sentence | 1 independent clause |
| compound sentence | 2+ independent clauses |
| complex sentence | 2+ independent clauses and at least 1 dependent clause |
| compound-complex sentence | 2+ independent clauses and at least 1 dependent clause |
| balanced structure | one in which 2 parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale |
| loose sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows |
| periodic sentence | when the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence |
| declarative sentence | state an idea |
| imperative sentence | issues a command |
| interrogative sentence | sentences incorporating interrogative pronouns (what, which, who, whom and whose) |
| style | the choices in diction, tone, and syntax that author makes |
| symbol | anything that stands for something else |
| syntax/sentence variety | grammatical arrangement of words |
| theme | central idea or message or a work |
| thesis | the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition |
| tone | writer's attitude towards his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization |
| transition | smooth movement from one paragraph or idea to another |
| understatement | ironic minimizing of a fact |
| litotes | particular form of understatement, generated by denying the opposite of the statement which would otherwise be used |
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