Key Word Terminology Flashcards
Dictation
The writers choice of words
Oxymoron
Contradicting terms together
Semantic field
A set of words from a text related in meaning
Hyperbole
Use of extreme exageration
Pathos
Language used to appeal to the emotions
Syntax
The way words and phrases are arranged
Shift
A switch or change in focus
Building
When an idea or tension is increased
Unreliable narrator
When the perspective offered makes us question the narrators credibility
Spotlight
Emphasis is placed on something
Exposition
The start where ideas are initiated
Dual
Told from multiple perspectives
Non linear
Events are in non chronological order
Focusing
Our attention is aimed somewhere
Fragment
Incomplete sentence
Simple
Sentence with one independent clause
Compound
Sentence with multiple independent clauses
Complex
Sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent one