Snyder Vocab terms Test

Rhethoric

language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.

Exigience

the moment or event that motivates someone to write or to speak about a specific issue, problem, or situation

Anaphora

repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.

Absolutes

generally made up of a noun or pronoun with a participial phrase. Ex:  Their slender bodies sleek and black against the orange sky, the storks circled high above us.

Diction

the choice and use of words in writing or speech.

Denotation

Literal meaning of a word

Connotation

 refers to the selection of a word or phrase for its suggested meaning instead of its literal one

Colloquial

literary device that utilizes informal words or phrases

Formal Language

the use of sophisticated language, without slang or colloquialisms

Informal Language

allows the use of nonstandard English forms, colloquial vocabulary and typically shorter sentence structures.

Jargon

the specific type of language used by a particular group or profession.

Dramatic Irony

when the audience knows something the characters don’t

Verbal Irony

a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent.

Mood

the emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader.

Imagery

language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader. 

Figurative Language

 the use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison.

Metaphor

Comparison between two or more things WITHOUT using Like or As

Simile

Comparison between two or more things WITH using Like or As

Personification

Where you describe an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms.

Understatement

when a writer presents a situation or thing as if it is less important or serious than it is in reality.

Hyperbole

a figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme.

Paradox

a statement that contradicts itself, or that must be both true and untrue at the same time.

Rhethorical Question

a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Allusion

a reference to something else*.* It’s when a writer mentions some other work, or refers to an earlier part of the current work.

Syntax

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the arrangement of words and phrases to create __well-formed__ sentences in a language.

Parallelism

when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure.

Juxtaposition

he placement of two or more things side by side, often in order to bring out their differences.

Antithesis

the opposite of a statement, concept, or idea.

Anecdote

 a very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic.

Allegory

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Analogy

a literary technique in which two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities.

POV

what the character or narrator telling the story can see 

First Person

the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view. (POV)

Second Person

Where the narrator addresses “you” the reader (POV)

Third Person

a narrative perspective in which the narrator describes the events in the story without being present themselves. (POV)

Subjective

something that's based on a person's opinions, individual experiences, and biased influences instead of facts.

Objective

something that is factual, free of bias and opinion, and verifiable

Tone

he mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel.

Organization Pattern

arrangement of ideas, incidents, evidence, or details in a perceptible order in a paragraph, essay, or speech.

Expository Essay

a type of writing/essay where the purpose is to explain or inform the audience about a topic

Description Essay

Essay to provide a clear picture of the place, people or thing in reader's mind.

Persuasion Essay

 essay that uses a combination of emotion, credibility, and logic to defend, challenge, or qualify a claim.

Narrative Essay

Essay about a personal experience and told from the author's perspective. It has a point or theme, and it uses storytelling elements to engage the reader.

Cause/Effect Essay

Essay that organizes evidence to show how something happened

Process/Analysis Essay

n essay which explains how something is done, how something occurs, or how something works.

Compare/Contrast Essay

Essay that discusses the similarities and differences of two or more things