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- 1. nominative A second type of subject complement a noun, group of nouns or noun clause that renames the subject.
- 6. A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.
- 12. A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.
- 13. modes This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing.
- 14. The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.
- 19. The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.
- 21. An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, aendemie, or bookish.
- 22. language Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.
- 24. From the Greek for "good speech," euphemisms are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
- 28. The speaker who uses elements of rhetoric effectively in oral or written test.
- 29. In essays, one of the for chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and narration.
- 32. The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
- 33. In expository writing, the thesis statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position.
- 35. Related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.
- 36. The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.
- 38. One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.
- 39. sentence A sentence that presents its contral meaning in a main claune at the end.
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- 2. From the Greck for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.
- 3. The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life.
- 4. of view In literature, the perspective from which a story is told.
- 5. A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity
- 7. A direct or indirect reference to something which is commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.
- 8. A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
- 9. From the Greek, didactic literally means "teaching."
- 10. The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.
- 11. The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words
- 15. Similar to mood, tone describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.
- 16. A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule
- 17. The device of using character and/or story elements to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.
- 18. The opposite of anaphors, repetition at the end of successive clauses.
- 20. A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event.
- 23. metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
- 25. adjective One type of subject complement--an adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb.
- 26. One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms.
- 27. The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is.
- 30. The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described.
- 31. A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concopts, mimals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions
- 34. A word or phrase that links different ideas.
- 36. The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.
- 37. A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.