Key Word Terminology Flashcards
1
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Dictation
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The writers choice of words
2
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Oxymoron
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Contradicting terms together
3
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Semantic field
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A set of words from a text related in meaning
4
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Hyperbole
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Use of extreme exageration
5
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Pathos
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Language used to appeal to the emotions
6
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Syntax
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The way words and phrases are arranged
7
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Shift
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A switch or change in focus
8
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Building
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When an idea or tension is increased
9
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Unreliable narrator
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When the perspective offered makes us question the narrators credibility
10
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Spotlight
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Emphasis is placed on something
11
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Exposition
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The start where ideas are initiated
12
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Dual
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Told from multiple perspectives
13
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Non linear
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Events are in non chronological order
14
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Focusing
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Our attention is aimed somewhere
15
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Fragment
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Incomplete sentence
