Terms group 5

Question 1

pedantic

Answer 1

a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant.

Question 2

personification

Answer 2

the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object.

Question 3

Point of View

Answer 3

the perspective from which a story is presented

Question 3

persuation

Answer 3

A form of arguementation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion.

Question 4

First person narrator

Answer 4

a narrator referred to as “I”, who is a character in the story and relates the actions through his or her own perspective, also revealing his or her own thoughts.

Question 5

Stream of Consciousness

Answer 5

like a first person narrator, but instead placing the reader inside the characters head, making the reader privy to the continuous, chaotic flow of disconnected, half- formed thoughts and impressions in the characters mind.

Question 6

Omniscient

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third person narrator, referred to as “he”, “she”, or “they”, who is able to see into each characters mind and understand all the action.

Question 7

Limited Omniscient

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a third person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees.

Question 8

Objective

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third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts and feelings are only revealed if a character speaks of them.

Question 9

Objective

Answer 9

third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts and feelings are only revealed if a character speaks of them.

Question 10

Protagonist

Answer 10

main character of a literary work

Question 11

Red Herring, Reductio ad Absurdum

Answer 11

when a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue to the Latin for ‘to reduce to the absurd.’ This is a technique useful in creating a comic effect and is also an argumentative technique. It is considered a rhetorical fallacy because it reduces an argument to an either/or choice.

Question 12

Regionalism

Answer 12

an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographic locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot

Question 13

Repetition

Answer 13

word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity

Question 14

Rhetoric

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the art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse; Rhetoric focuses on the interrelationship of invention, arrangement, and style in order to create felicitous and appropriate discourse.

Question 15

Rhetorical Modes

Answer 15

exposition, description, narration, argumentation

Question 16

Rhetorical Questions

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one that does not expect an explicit answer. It is used to pose an idea to be
considered by the speaker or audience.

Question 17

Sarcasm

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harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony

Question 18

Satire

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a work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. Satire doesn’t simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). Satire targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals.

Question 19

Setting

Answer 19

time and place of a literary work

Question 20

Simile

Answer 20

a figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially
different objects, actions, or qualities; for example, “The sky looked like an artist’s canvas.”