Key terms Flashcards
Anecdote
A short account of an incedent or event, especially interesting or amusing nature.
A short obscure historical or biological account
Euphemism
The substitutuion of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
Hyperbole
Obvious and intentional exaggeration
Hubris
Excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance
Idiom
Comman phrase, kick the bucket
Innuendo
an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature
Intertextuality
The interrelationship between texts, especially works of literatur; the way that a similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other
Irony
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated
sargon
The language, especially the vocabulary, perculiar to a trade, profession, group; medical jargon.
Unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish
Litotes
Understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all”
Logos
The rational principle that governs and develops the universe
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
Parody
A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing; his hilarous parody of hamlets soliloquy
Rhetoric
The undue use of exaggeration or display ; bombast.
Satire
The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly etc.
A literary composition, in verseor prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
