List One Flashcards
A reference to some literary work, historical figure, or event. For example, to say that a friend “has the patience of Job” means that he is as enduring as the biblical figure of that name. This term must be used with care lest the audience miss their meaning.
Allusion
This term is the writer’s attempt to convince his reader to agree with him. It is based upon appeals to reason, evidence providing the argument, and sometimes emotion to persuade. Some arguments attempt to merely prove a point, but others go beyond proving to inciting the reader to action. At the heart of this term lies a debatable issue.
Argumentation
The principle of clarity and logical adherence to a topic that binds together all parts of a composition. A “this term” essay is one whose parts– setences, paragraphs, pages– are logically fused into a single whole.
Coherence
A rhetorical mode used to develop an essay whose primary aim is to depict a scene, person, thing, or idea. “This term” writing invokes the look, feel, sound, and sense of events, people, or things
Description
Word choice. “This term” refers to the choice of words a writer uses in an essay or other writing. Implicit in the idea of “this term” is a vast vocabulary of synonyms – different words that have more or less equivalent meanings. If only one word existed for every idea or condition, “this term” would not exist. But since we have a choice of words with various shades of meaning, a writer can and does choose among words to express ideas.
Diction
Writing whose chief aim is to explain. Rather than showing, as a narration, “this term” tells. A majority of essays contain some of “this teem” because they need to convey information, background, or tell how events occurred or processes work.
Exposition
Said of a word or expression used in a nonliteral way. For example, the expression “to go the last mile” may have nothing at all to do with geographical distance, but may need to complete an unfinished task or job
Figurative language
A figure of speech using deliberative exaggeration or overstatement. “These terms” often had a comic effect; however, a serious effect is also possible. Often, “this term” creates irony at the same time.
Hyperbole
“This term” is a phrase or expression that evokes a picture or describes a scene. “This term” and may be either literal, in which case it is a realistic attempt to depict with words what something looks like, or figurative, in which case the expression is used that likens the thing described to something else (example, my love is like a red, red rose.).
Image/imagery
The use of language in such a way that apparent meeting contrasts sharply with the real meaning. One famous example (in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) is Antony’s description of Brutus as “an honorable man.” Since Brutus was one of Caesar’s assassins, Anthony meant just the opposite. “This term” is a softer form of sarcasm and shares with it the same contrast between apparent and a real meaning. “This term” is used for many reasons, but frequently, it’s used to create poignancy and humor.
Overall irony
When the words literally state the opposite of the writer or speaker’s true meaning.
Verbal irony
When events turn out the opposite of what was expected. What the characters and readers think ought to happen is what does happen.
Situational irony
When facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work.
Dramatic irony
A figurative image that implies the similarity between things otherwise dissimilar, as when poet Robert Frost states “I have been acquainted with the night,” meaning that he has survived despair.
Metaphor
The pervading impression made on the feelings of a reader. For instance, Edgar Allan Poe often created a “this term” of horror in his short stories. A “this term” can be gloomy, sad, joyful, bitter, frightening, and so forth. A writer can create as many as “these terms” as his emotional range suggests.
Mood
And account of events as they happen.
When organizing using “this term”, use chronological order or pattern, stressing the sequence of events and pacing these events according to the emphasis desired. This term is often distinguished from three other modes of writing: argumentation, description and exposition.
Narration
From the Greek for “pointedly foolish”, “this term” is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. Simple examples include “jumbo shrimp” and “cruel kindness”.
Oxymoron
Speed at which a piece of writing moves along. “This term” depends on the balance between some rising action and representing action in detail. Syntax can also affect “this term”.
Pacing
