toolbox terms 4

Point of View

In literature, the perspective from which a story is told.

Prose

One of the major divisions of genre, referring to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms.

Parody

A work that closely imitates the style or content of another for comic effect and/or ridicule.

Rhetoric

Describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.

Epistrophe

Repetition at the end of successive clauses.

Satire

A work that targets human vices or social institutions for reform or ridicule, often using irony and humor.

Semantics

The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words and their relations.

Syllogism

A deductive system of formal logic presenting two premises that lead to a conclusion.

Trope

An artful variation from expected modes of expression, using words in a non-literal sense.

Understatement

The ironic minimizing of fact, presenting something as less significant than it is.