31-45 Flashcards
A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a work suggestive of its theme.
Epigraph
Words used specifically to create ambiguity, usually by using the same word in two different senses in an argument. This ambiguity is generally used to maipulate the target audience.
Equivocation
An appeal made in a text or speech that is based on the reputation of the author or speaker. The speaker’s claims appear valid because the target audience trusts the speaker’s reputation or reputed concern for them.
Ethical Appeal
An individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern.
Example
The act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text.
Explication
Background information provided by a writer to enhance understanding.
Exposition
An attempt to use two use two cases that are not sufficiently parallel to accept a connection.
False Analogy
A text that is the product of a writer’s imagination, using characters, plot, setting, point of view, and theme. Effective writers create texts that make remembering the story is not real difficult.
Fiction
A word or words that are inaccurate literally, but describe by calling to mind sensations or responses that the thing described evokes. (Most of the literary terms that you have learned in English can generally be called figurative language).
Figurative Language
A position or claim established by a writer based on an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable.
Generalization
Conscious exaggeration to heighten effect (often humor).
Hyperbole
A word or words used to describe a sensory expression.
Image
Words used to create a strong unified sensory impression.
Imagery
Variation (often the reversal) of the normal word order.
Inversion
An implied comparison when one thing is directly called another.
Logic
