32-47 Flashcards
Mood
Atmosphere, element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions
Narrative
The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events
Onomatopoeia
Natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. For example buzz, hiss, hum, crack, whinny, and murmur
Oxymoron
“Pointedly foolish,” groups of apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. For example, “jumbo shrimp” and “cruel kindness”
Paradox
A statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposed to commonsense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity
Parallelism
Grammatical oratorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity
Parody
Oh work that closely imitates the style or context of another with a specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
Pedantic
Overly scholarly, academic, or bookish
Periodic sentence
A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end
Personification
Concepts, animals, or in animate object’s described with human attributes or emotions
Point of view
The perspective from which a story is told
Predicate adjective
And adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb. For example, “my boyfriend is tall, dark, and handsome”
Predicate nominative
A noun, groups of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject. For example, “Abe Lincoln was a man of integrity,” the predicate nominative is “man of integrity”
Prose
Prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, basically anything that isn’t poetry or drama
Repetition
Duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element or language, such as sound, word, phrase, or clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern
