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Allusion

Reference to another piece of work

Anachronism

The representation of something as existing or happening in the wrong time period

Analogy

A cognitive process of transferring traits from one thing or idea to another

Chiasmus

Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

Antithesis

A contrast between ideas by placing them together

Aphorism

A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life

Assonance

Repetition of vowels sound within two or more words in lose proximity

Bias

Language that's supports a specific idea

Cliché

A boring phrase, made tedious by frequent repetition

Colloquialism

Expressions or grammar that is associated with ordinary speech or dialect rather than formal language

Connotation

Is the aura of emotion that is associated with the word through personal experience

Deictic

Words that point in various directions, within a text and beyond it

Denotation

What word literally stands for

Diatribe

a severely critical type of discourse, often spoke, characterized by anger which is directed at something

Dramatic Irony

When the audience has more information about what is taking place than some of the members of the plot

Ellipsis

The omission of part of a language structure

Equivocation

When a word is used in two different senses in an argument

Ethos in a text

Evidence

Ethos of an audience

Describe the character of an audience

Euphemism

A word or phrase that makes something sound better than it actually is

Formalism

A school of literary criticism that looks at texts at face value, without biographical, historical or contextual considerations. This allows the reader to unpack what the author is trying to say

Function

What the language is used for

High Modality

Words which can persuade or convince another person or reader by eliminating uncertainty

Hyperbole

Emphasis through exaggeration

Idiolect

Refers to the way in which we all speak an individual and unique variety of a language

Irony

Stating something that is in discordance with what is expected

Jargon

A special technical language which is only understood by the targeted audience

Juxtaposition

The placement of two opposite ideas in close proximity

Litotes

A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite

Logos

Logic

Metaphor

The comparison of two concepts through the use of verb to be

Metonymy

The act of referring to a concept not by its name, but by something intimately associated with it

Modality

The linguistic of judgement. Helps to express the authors viewpoint and form the readers perception in a definite way

Motif

distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition

Multimodal

When meaning is conveyed to the reader through varying combinations of visual written language

Multivocal

Suggests that the meaning of the text is not fixed in it in any kind of immutable, unified way

Neologism

The creating of new words or expressions

New Criticism

Suggests that all the meaning of the text can be gathered by looking only at the text

Paradox

A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Paralanguage

Aspects of communication functioning in conjunction with verbal language

Pathos

Emotion

Personification

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human

Polysyndeton

The use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural

Satire

A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule

Lexical Field

A group of word referring to the same topic

Situational Irony

Involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Syllogism

An instance form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given assumed propositions

Synecdoche

Where one part of something is used to refer to the whole thing

Verbal Irony

Irony through the use of rhetorical questions

Rhetorical Questions

Questions asked for effect rather than answers

Abstract

An image emphasizing formal elements such as line and shape rather than particular, recognizable objects

Direct Approach

Capturing an image of a scene in a straightforward way without using distortion or unusual angles

Expressive Photography

Photographs intended to communicate emotion

Geometric Shape

Simple shapes found in geometry

Objective Photograph

A point of view that attempts to limit personal bias, considering all information with equal regard and fairness

Organic Shape

Shapes that are based on objects in nature

Contour

The outline of an object or shape

Vantage Point

The place or position from which the photographer takes a photograph

Anaphora

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Alliteration

The repetition of a sound at the beginning of several words

Adnomination

Repetition of words with the same root word

Cataphora

Reference to something that comes later in a sentence or in a text

Chractonym

Giving fictional characters names that describe them

Merism

Describing people/objects by enumerating their traits

Antanaclasis

Repetition of a word in different senses

Tautology

the saying of the same thing twice in different words

Deus ex Machina

An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.

Epiphany

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Hamartia

A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine

Malapropism

A word humorously misused

Stream of Consciousness

A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind