Ap Notes 41-60 Flashcards
Short pointed memorable saying based on facts and it’s considered a veritable truth buy a majority of people.
Example, God helps those who help.
Adage
Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning.
Example, Sheldon from the Big Bang theory.
Pedantic
Lacking proper respect or seriousness. This is often associated with the impatience of youth.
Flippant
Do use of language that suggest meaning other than the denotative. Language that connects with emotion or feelings not associated with the actual meaning of a word.
Evocative
Also called Anastrophe, In literary style and rhetoric, The syntactic reversal of the normal order of words and phrases in a senates, as, in English, the placing of an additive after the noun it modifies, a verb before the
Syntactical inversion
Frequently used for those literary text which are overloaded with Informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of grateful and pleasing details. Therefore it becomes a derogatory term referring to the forms of literature that are ostentatiously dull and erudite.
Didactic
A figure of speech in which to vastly different objects are linked together with the help of similes or metaphors. These examples have a surprising or shocking affect on the readers because they are novel comparisons unlike the conventional comparisons made and similes and metaphors.
Conceit
The repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.
Example, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
Ana diploids
Is an error of chronological order timeline in a literary peace in other words anything that is out of time and out of place.
Anachronism
A form of word play in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged in such a way that a new word or phrase is formed.
Anagram
Figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
Hyperbole
Word which imitates the natural sounds of things.
Onomatopoeia
Has the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can’t be persuasive but putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. It can also create suspense or interest for the reader.
Examples, in spite of heavy snow in cold temperatures, the game continued.
By helping us stay focused and maintaining a good attitude,Positive thinking is important for a happy life.
Periodic sentence
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory You’re silly but may include a Latent truth. It is also used to illustrate an opinion or statement contrary to excepted traditional ideas. Is often used to make a reader think over an idea in a innovative way.
Example, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
I must be cruel to be kind
Your enemies friend is your enemy
Paradox
Figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning other words it may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way and then what is generally anticipated. In simple words it is a difference between the appearance and the reality.
Example, go ask him his name; if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Irony
Is a stylistic the bus that comes from a Greek word, meaning to place or alongside. Is a quality or explanatory sentence, Clause or word that writers insert into a paragraph or passage. However, if they leave it out, even then Grammatically it does not affect the text that is correct without it. Ryder is mark them off by round and square brackets or by commas, dashes, little lines and brackets. As far as its purpose is concerned this verbal unit provides an extra information, interrupts syntactic flow of words, and allows the reader to pay attention on explanation.
Parenthesis
Grimley mocking sarcastic, satirical, mocking in a humorous manner. This is one of those tone words that describes writing that fits the meaning.
Sardonic
Is a technique employed by Writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony, Exaggeration or really cool. He intends to improve humanity by criticizing it’s Pauly’s and foibles.
Example, if this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.
Satire
Relating to or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech
Polemical
Is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. Skilled writers use this with purpose and intent.
Example, I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I walked a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I am quite a heavy smoker for one thing-That is, are used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew 6 1/2 inches last year. That’s also how I practically t.b
Ambiguity
May be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. Many literary critiques are of the opinion that archetypes, which have a common and reoccurring representation in a particular human culture or entire race, shape the structure and function of a literary work
Archetype
Do use of Archetypical characters and situations give a literary work a universal acceptance, as a reader identify the characters and situations in their social and cultural context. By using common archetype, the writer attempts to import realism to their work, as a situation and characters are drawn from the experiences of the world.
functions of archetype
Literary device that can be defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of a literary peace. This trait could be the lack of self knowledge, lack of judgment and often it is hubris(pride).
Example, to be or not to be – that is the question: whether his nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing in them. To die, to sleep… no more, and back to sleep to say we end the heart ache and 1000 natural shocks that that flesh is heir to, ‘it’s a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep……
Tragic flaw
When someone makes a statement investing his strong believe in it, as if it is true though it may not be. A technique involving a strong declaration, a forceful or confident and positive statement regarding a belief or a fact. It is often without a proof or any support.
Example , I have put my every effort to complete this task today.
Assertion
