Toolbox Words #4

Question 1

Prose

Answer 1

One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms . In prose the printer determines the length of the line; in poetry, the poet determines the length of the line.

Question 2

Parody

Answer 2

A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. As comedy, parody distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original.

Question 3

Rhetoric

Answer 3

From the Greek for “orator,” this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.

Question 4

Epistrophe

Answer 4

The opposite of anaphora, repetition at the end of successive clauses. “They saw no evil, they spoke no evil, and they heard no evil.”

Question 5

Satire

Answer 5

A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. It can be recognized by the many devices used effectively by the satirist: irony, wit, parody, caricature, hyperbole, understatement, and sarcasm The effects of satire are varied, depending on the writer’s goal, but good satire, often humorous, is thought provoking and insightful about the human condition.

Question 6

Semantics

Answer 6

The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.

Question 7

Syllogism

Answer 7

From the Greek for “reckoning together,” a syllogism is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called “major” and the second, “minor”) that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.
Ex.:
major Premise: All men are mortal. minor premise: Socrates is a man. conclusion: Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

Question 8

Trope

Answer 8

an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and
ideas., a use of he word in a sense other than its proper or literal one. Common types include: metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, personification,
hyperbole, litotes, irony, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, etc.

Question 9

Understatement

Answer 9

The ironic minimizing of fact…presents something as less significant than it is. The opposite of hyperbole, but like it in creating emphasis.

Question 10

Point of View

Answer 10

In literature, the perspective from which a story is told