Day 5 Flashcards
*Invective
Verbally abusive attack
Inversion
Reversing of the customary
Jargon
Special language of a profession or group; usually has pejorative associative that it is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to the outsider
Logical Appeal
Logos; persuasion via facts, statistics, and reasoning
Lyrical
Songlike; emotion, subjectivity, and imagination
Mode
Method or form of literary work (how it’s written)
Narration
Telling of a piece of literature; one of the four modes of discourse
Objectivity
Unbiased presentation of events and characters
Oversimplification
Obscuring or denying complexity of issues in an argument
Oxymoron
Figure of speech composed of contradictory words/phrases
Pacing
Moving of literature from one point to another
Parable
Short tale that teaches a moral; similar to allegory, but shorter