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
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