Vocabulary

3. the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences
6. clause this word contains both a subject and a verb, can't stand alone
9. bitter,caustic language to hurt or ridicule someone
10. central idea or message
12. describes the author's attitude
13. question not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious
15. attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece
17. branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another
19. work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule

1. evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes
2. word/phrase that links different ideas
4. the duplication, either exact or approximate of any element of language
5. ironic minimizing fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is
6. type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole
7. major division of genre
8. amazing language that surprises and delights
11. deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises
14. sentence/ group of sentences that expresses easier to determine in spoken language than written language
16. principles governing the art of writing
18. anything that represents itself and stands for something else