Q6 Flashcards
Style
An author’s characteristic manner of expression: his or her diction, syntax, imagery, structure, and content.
Subjectivity
A personal representatoin of events adn characters, influenced by the author’s feelings and opinons.
Subordinate clause
A word group that contains both a subject and a verb, plus any accompanying phrases or modifiers. Unlike the independent cluse, the subordinate cluse cannot stand alone, it does not express a complete thought.
Syllogism
A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them.
Symbol
A figure that represents an abstract idea.
Synedoche
A figure of speech in which a part something is used to represent a whole, such as using “board” to mean stage or “wheels” to mean a car.
Syntax
The grammatical structure of a sentence; it is the arrangement of words in a sentence.
Theme
The central idea or “message” of a literary work.
Thesis
The main idea of a piece of writing. It presents the author’s assertion or claim. The effectiveness of a presentation is often based on how well the writer presents, develops, and supports their ____.
Tone
The characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience.
Transition
A word or phrase that links on one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph.
Understatement
The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.
Vernacular
The everyday or common language of a geographic area or the native language of commoners in a country.
Voice
Refers to two different areas of writing. One refers to the relationship between a sentence’s subject and verb while the other refers to the total “sound” of a writer’s style.
