Glossary Week 13 Flashcards
Rhetorical Stance
Language that conveys a speaker’s attitude or opinion with regard to a particular subject.
Writers attitude towards a topic: Writer’s stance gave a persuasive tone
Rhyme
The repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry but not unheard of in prose.
1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish
Rhythm
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up speech and writing.
Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Romance
An extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places.
Romeo and Juliet
Sarcasm
A sharp, caustic attitude conveyed in words through jibes, taunts, or other remarks; sarcasm differs from irony, which is more subtle.
“You have been sooo helpful” When they haven’t helped at all.
Satire
A literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change.
SNL skits
Sentence Structure
The arrangement of the parts of a sentence. A sentence may be simple (one subject and one verb), compound (two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction), or complex (an independent clause plus one or more dependent clauses). Sentences may also contain any of these structures in combination with each other.
“I rode my bike, then got in my car, and drove into town.” 3 clauses.
Sentiment
A synonym for view or feeling; also a refined and tender emotion in literature.
Emotion towards something.
Sentimental
A term that describes characters’ excessive emotional response to experience; also nauseatingly nostalgic and mawkish.
He has sentimental attachment to his first car.
Setting
An environment that consists of time, place, historical milieu, and social, political, and even spiritual circumstances.
Location of a story
Simile
A figurative comparison using the words like or as.
They are like two peas in a pod
Stream of conciousness
A style of writing in which the author tried to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind.
Flow of thoughts that a character has.
