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AP Language and Composition Gloassary Of Literacy and Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

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What is active voice?

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The subject of the sentence preforms this action. This is a more direct and preferred style of writing in most cases. Ex: “Anthony drove while tony shearched for the house”. Opposite of passive voice.

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What is passive voice?

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A verb is pasive when the subject of the scentence is acted on by the verb. Ex: “The ball was thrown by the pitcher”
Active voice would be: “The pitcher threw the ball”

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What is an allusion?

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An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

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What is alter-ego?

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A character that is used by the author to speak the authors own thoughts; when an author speaks directly to the audience through a character. Do not confuse with persona

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What is an anecdote?

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A brief recounting of a relevent episode. Anecdotes are often insterted into finctional or non finctional texts as a way fo deveopling a point of injecting humour.

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What is an antecedent?

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The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.

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What is classicism?

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Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures.

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What is comic relief?

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When a humerous scene is inserted into a serious story in order to lighten the mood.

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What is dictation?

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Word choice, particularly as an alement of style. Different types of words have significant effects on meaning.

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Types of dictation: Colloquial

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Oridnary or familiar type of conversation. A Colloquialism is a common or familiar type of saying similar to an adage or an aphorim.

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What is an adage?

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Something which peolpe often say and which expresses a general truth about some aspect of life. Ex: Every baby brings its own life.

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What is an Aphorim?

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A concise statement of a pronciple. Ex: A penny saved is a penny earned

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Types of dictation: Connotation

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Implied meaning rather than literal meaining. Ex: Policeman, cop, and The man all denote the same literal meaning of a police officer but have diffrent connotations?

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Types of dictation: Donotation

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The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations

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Types of dictation: Jargon

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The dictation used by a group which practices a similar proffesion or activity.

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Types of dictation: Vernacular

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  1. Language or dilact of a partucular country
  2. Language or dilect of a regional clan or group
  3. Plain everyday speech
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What is Didactic?

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A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction, or powtry that teaches a specific lesson, moral, or provides a model of correct behvaiour or thinking.

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Types of Didactic: Adage

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A folk saying with a lesson - similar to aphorism and colloquialism

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Types of Didactic: Allegory

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A stry, fincitnoal or non finctional, in whoch characters, things, and events repersent qualities or concepts. The interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth.

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Types of Didactic: Aphorism

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A terse statment which expresses a general truth or moral principle. An aphorism can be a memorable summatation of the authors point.

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What is Ellipsis?

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The deilberate ommision of a word, phrase from prose done for effect by the author.

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What is a Euphemism?

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A more agreeable or less offensive subsitite for generally upleasent words or concepts.

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What is figurative language?

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Is the opposite of literal language. Literal language is writing that makes complete sense when you take it at face

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Types of figurative language: Analogy

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A comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. When a writer uses an analogy, he or she argues that the relationship between the first part of variables is the same as the relationship between the second pair of variables.

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Types of figurative language: Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Types of figurative language: Idiom

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A common, often used expression that doesn’t make sense when you take it literally. Ex: I got chewed out by my coach

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Types of figurative language: Metaphor

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Making an implied comparision, not using like, as or other such words

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Types of figurative language: Metonymy

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Replacing an actual word or idea with a related concept. Ex: “Relations between London and Washington have been strained” - Does not mean relationship between two cities but the leaders of the countries

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Types of figurative language: Metonymy - Synechdoche

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A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa Ex: Check out my new wheels”

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What is a simile?

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Using like or as to make a direct comparision between two very diffrent things.

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Types of simile: Synesthia

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A discription involcing a crossing of scenes. Ex: I was deafened by his brght colored clothing

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Types of simile: Personification

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Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human

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What is foreshadowing?

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When an author gives hints about what wll occur later in a story

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What is Genre?

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A mjor category into which literary work fits

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What is gothic?

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Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear, and/or death

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What is imagery?

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Word or words that create a picture in the readers mind.

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What is invecative

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A long, emotional violent attack using strong abusive language

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What is Irony?

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When the oppsoive of what you expect happens

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Types of Irony: Verbal Irony

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When you say sometihnf and mean the opposite/something diffrent

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Types of Irony: Dramatic

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WHen the audience of a drama, play/movie knows something the character doesn’t and would be suprised to know.

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Types of Irony: Situational

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Found in the plot of a story. Somtimes it makes you laugh becuase it’s funny how things turn out.

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What is juxtaposition?

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Placing thinfs side by side for the purpose of comparison. Authors often use juxtaposition of ideas or examples in order to make a point.

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What is mood?

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The atmospher created by the literature and accomplished through word choice. Syntax is often a creator of mood.

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What is a motif?

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A reoccuring idea in a peice of literature.

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What is an oxymoron?

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When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox. Ex: “Wise fool”

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What is pacing?

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The speed or tempo of an authors writing. Writers use a varitey of devices to change the pacing of words. Pace can be fast, sluggish, stabbing, vibrato, staccato measured, etc.

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What is a paradox?

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A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true. Ex: Can’t get a job without experience, can get experience without a job

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What is parallelism?

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Also known as parral structure or balanced sentences. Places equal grammatical constructions near each other or repeats idnetical grammatical patterns. Is used to add emphesis, organization or sometimes pacing. Ex: “Cinderella swept the
floor, dusted the mantle, and beat the rugs.”

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Types of parallelism: Anaphora

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Repition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or caluses in a row.
Ex: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

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Types of parallelism: Chiasmus

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When the same words are used twice in succession, but the seocnd time, the order of the words is reversed. Ex: Fair is foul, foul is fair
Also called antimetabole

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Types of parallelism: Antithesis

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Two oppsite or contrasting words, phrases, clauses or ideaswith parallel structure. Ex: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

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Types of parallelism: Zuegma (Syllepsis)

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When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies. Ex: . “The
butler killed the lights, and then the mistress.”

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What is a Parenthetical Idea?

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Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence. It is almost considerd to be an aside. It should be used sparingly for effect.

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What is a parody?

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An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes.

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What is a persona?

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The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story. Do not confuse with alter-ego

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What is a poetic device?

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A device used in poetry to manipulate the sounds fo words, scentences, or lines/

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Types of poetic devices: Alliteration

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The repition of the same constonant sound at the begining of words.

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Types of poetic devices: Assonance

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The repition of identical or similar words Ex: From the molten-golden notes

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Types of poetic devices: Consonance

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The repetition of the same consonant sound at the endo of words or within words Ex: Some later visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door

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Types of poetic devices: Onomatopeia

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Use of a word which imitates/describes the sound something makes

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Types of poetic devices: Internal Rhyme

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When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line Ex: The thr rhyming and chiming of the bells

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Types of poetic devices: Slant rhyme

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When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words don’t rhyme exactly - they are merely similar

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Types of poetic devices: End Rhyme

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When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme

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Types of poetic devices: Rhyme Scheme

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The pattern of a poem’s end rhyme

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Types of poetic devices: Stressed/unstressed syllables

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In every word of more than one syllables is stressed, or said with more force that the other syllables

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Types of poetic devices: Meter

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A regular pattern to the syllables in a line of poetry

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Types of poetic devices: Free Verse

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Poetrt that doesnt have much meter/rhyme

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Types of poetic devices: Iambic pentameter

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Poetry that is written in lines of 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed syllabels

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Types of poetic devices: Sonnet

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a 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. Usually divided into three quatrains and a couplet

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What is polysyndeton?

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When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions. Normally a conjunction is used only before the last item in a list.
Examples of polysyndeton: “I walked the dog, and fed
the cat, and milked the cows.”

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What is a pun

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When a word that has two or more meaning is used in a humerous way

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What is Rhetoric

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The art of effective communication

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Types of Rhetoric: Aristotles Rehetorical Triangle

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The relationships, in any peice of writing, between the writer, the audience, and the subject. All analysis of writing is essentialy an analysis of the relationship between the points of the triangle.

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What is a Rhetorical Question?

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Questions not asked for informatoin but for effect.

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What is Romanticism?

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The art or literature characterized by an idealistic, prehaps unrealistic view of people and the world with an emphasis on nature.

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What is sarcasm?

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A gernally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded. However, not all satire, and irony are sarcastic.

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What is satire?

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A work that reveals a critical attitude towards some elemtent of life to a humerous effect.

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What is stlye?

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The choices of diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. Stlye may be conscious or unconcscious

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What is a symbol?

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Anything that represents or stands for something else. Usually a symbol is something concrete such as an object, actions, character

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What is syntax?

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Grammatical arrangment of words/

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What is theme?

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The central idea or message of a work.

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What is a thesis?

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The sentence of groups of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition. It should be short and clear.

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What is tone?

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A writers attitude toward his subject matter revealed through dictation, figurtive language and organization.

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What is an understatement?

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The ironic minimizing of fact, understatment presents something less significant than it is

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Types of understatement: Litotes

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A particular form of understatment, generated by denying the opposite of the statment which otherwise would be used. Ex: Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn’t do your car any
good

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