61-80 Flashcards
Logical Fallacy
A mistake in reasoning
Lyrical
Songlike, characterized by emotions, subjectivity, and imagination
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one thing is refered to as another
Metonoymy
Figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or Idea to represent something with which it is associated
Mode
The method or form of a literary work, the manner in which a work is written
Moral
The lesson drawn from a fiction or non fiction story, can also mean a heavily didactic story
Motif
the main theme or subject of a work that is elaborated on in development of the piece, a repeated pattern or idea
Narraration
The telling of a story, one of the four modes of discourse
Negative-Positive
Sentence that begins by stating what is not true, then ending with what is true
Non-sequitur
Latin for “it does not follow.” When one statement isn’t logically connected to another
Objectivity
An impersonal presentation of events and characters. It is a writes attempt to remove himself from any subjective, personal involvement of the story
Onomatopoeia
the use of words that sound like what they mean
Oversimplification
When a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issue in an argument
Oxymoron
A figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases
Pacing
The movement of a literary piece from one point to another
Parable
A short tale that teaches a moral, similar to, but shorter than an allegory
Paradox
A statement that seems to contradicts itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning
Parallelism
The technique of aragning words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form
Parody
A work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggeration its elements
Mood
Similar to tone, the primary emotional attitude of a work
