Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Hubris-Objectivity

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Anything that causes laughter or amusement

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Humor

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Deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis

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Hyperbole

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A short descriptive narrative, usually a poem about country life; also known as pastoral

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Idyll

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Words or phrases that use a collection of images; appeals to one or more of the five senses

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Imagery

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Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside of a characters head

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Interior Monologue

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Reversing the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase; used when posing a question

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Inversion

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A situation in which outcome/meaning is opposite of what is expected

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Irony

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Sentence grammatically complete before ending

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Loose Sentence

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A figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that uses the name of a person, object, or idea with which it’s associated with

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Metonymy

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Method or form of a literary work

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Mode

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Emotional attitude of a work

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Mood

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Main theme or subject of a work; a repeated pattern or idea

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Motif

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Story set in a complete imaginary world

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Myth

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The telling of a story in fiction, non fiction, poetry, or drama

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Narration

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Portrays humans as having no free will; no control

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Naturalism

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An impersonal presentation of events and characters

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Objectivity

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Excessive Pride leading to the downfall of a hero

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Hubris