Section 4 Flashcards
One that does not expect an explicit answer. It is used to pose an idea to be considered by the speaker or audience.
Rhetorical Question
A comic technique that ridicules through caustic language.
Sarcasm
A mode of writing based on ridicule, that criticized the foibles and follows of society without necessarily offering a solution.
Satire
The time and place of a literary work.
Setting
An indirect comparison that uses the words “like” or “as” to link the differing items in he comparison.
Simile
The specific instructions a playwright includes concerning sets, characterization, delivery, etc.
Stage Directions
A unit of a poem, similar in thyme, meter and length to other units in the poem.
Stanza
The organization and form of a work.
Structure
The unique way an author presents his ideas.
Style
Reducing the original text to its essential parts.
Summary
The format of a formal argument that consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Syllogism
Something in a literary work that stands for something else.
Symbol
A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole.
Synecdoche
The grammatical structure of prose and poetry.
Syntax
Locating a number of sources and integrating them into the development of and support of a writer’s thesis/claim.
Synthesis
