List Tres Flashcards
Definition:informs and explains
Example:Answer
An expository paragraph is a section that gives information on a subject, or a series of steps explaining how to do something.
More info: 1620s, from M.L. Expositorius, from expositor, from exponere.
Expository
Definition:something that is going to happen
Example: The paper explores the writer’s style and subtle use of detail and foreshadowing.
More information: 1570s, from fore + shadow; the notion is of a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come.
Foreshadowing
Definition: The figurative language, especially metaphors and similes, used in poetry, plays, and other literary works.
Example: He fumed and charged like an angry bull.
More info.:has other meaning than just one.
Imagery
Definition: Something said or written that uses humor based on words suggesting the opposite of their literal meaning.
Examples: Archer felt the irony but did not dare to take it up.
More information: 1500 from L. Ironical, from Greek eironeia, from eiron “dissembler,” perhaps related to eirein”to speak.”
Irony
Definition: refers to all forms or written or spoken expression that are not in verse.
Example:Some of the exports of Brazil are soybeans, sugar, orange juice and iron ore.
More information: Synonyms are book, composition, essay, fiction, story, and tongue*
Prose
