Notes Set 1 (1-20)

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

a short, simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point.

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments: persuasive writing is a form of argumentation.

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

an extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric.

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data.

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

The presentation of two contrasting images. “to be or not to be”

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, figures of speech, and other compositional techniques.

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

a word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing.

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in readers’ mind. Opposite of denotation.

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity. boot/beat/breast/brag, or even compound words, fulfill, ping-pong.

Question 10

Caricature

Answer 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a persons appearance or a facet of personality.

Question 11

Coherence

Answer 11

the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme, or organizing principle.

Question 12

Aphorism

Answer 12

a short, often witty statement of principle or truth about life. Ben Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richard’s Almanac, e.g “the early bird gets the worm”

Question 13

Apostrophe

Answer 13

usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 14

Cacophony

Answer 14

also referred to as DISSONANCE…hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of EUPHONY.

Question 15

Connotation-Denotation

Answer 15

definition and how a word is used

Question 16

Enumeration

Answer 16

Enumeration is a rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts.

Question 17

Analogy

Answer 17

An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

Question 19

Allusion

Answer 19

Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.

Question 20

Metonymy

Answer 20

It is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.