Assertion Flashcards
Discordant
Disagreeable in sound
Assertion
The thesis of the essay
Cacophony
Harsh discordant sounds in a literary work
Comic relief
A humorous character or scene inserted between tragic events
Deconstruct
To break something into parts in order to understand the meanings of the parts
Epigraph
A quotation at the beginning of a literary work
Euphony
The presentation of pleasant sounds in a work
Exclamatory sentence
A sentence that shows excitement and ends in an exclamation sound
Flashback
A device that allows the writer to refer to past events
Ibid
The same as the source above
Monologue
A speech given by one character
Parable
A story that operates on more than one level and teaches a moral
Polysyndeton
The presence of many conjunctions between clauses
Suboordination
The process of giving one idea less emphasis than another idea in a sentence
Urbane
Refined, often in an elegant manner
