Reversed Notes 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/view/idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments; persuasive writing is a form of this

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

an extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which character, 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, 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. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. “To be or not to be…”, “Ask not what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

a word or phrase (including slang) used in every day conversation & informal writing but that is often inappropriate, informal writing

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

words suggesting implied meaning b/c of its association in a reader’s mind. opposite of “denotation”

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

repetition of identical consonant sounds w/i two or more words in close proximity: boot/beat/best/brag, or even compound words: fulfill, ping-pong

Question 10

Caricature

Answer 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality

Question 11

Coherence

Answer 11

the “quality” of apiece 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 a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richard’s Almanac

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, think, or personified abstraction

Question 14

Cacophony (Dissonance)

Answer 14

hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of Euphony

Question 15

Connotation-Denotation

Answer 15

opposites. one represents the emotion a person feels from a word or phrase while the other gives a literal definition of the word or phrase

Question 16

Enumeration

Answer 16

a rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it’s a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed in components or parts. Writers use this to clarify & detail understanding

Question 17

Analogy

Answer 17

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 familiar

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

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

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 it

Question 20

Metonymy

Answer 20

it is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing w/the name of something else w/which it is closely associated. Do NOT confuse this w/ a metaphor as it is not comparing