Lang Vocab - round 2

Imagery - wit

Imagery

The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion or represent abstractions.

Irony

The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. It is often used to create poignancy or humor.

Juxtaposition

When two words or phrases, images or ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast. It often class attention and meaningful.

Metaphor

A figure of speech using implied comparison or seemingly unlike things or substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity.

Mood

The prevailing Atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Setting tone and events can affect this. This is similar to tone and atmosphere.

Narrative

The telling of a story, or an account of an event or series of events.

Onomatopoeia

A figure speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.

Oxymoron

From the Greek for the Greek “pointedly foolish”. It is a figure of speech, where, in the author groups, apparently contradictory terms to suggest paradox.

Paradox

A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.

Parallelism

Also referred to as a parallel construction of parallel structure this term, the Greek roots meaning beside one another it refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity. This can involve, but is not limited to repetition of grammatical elements, such as a preposition or verbal phrase.

Parody

• A work that closely imitates, the style or content of another, with a specific aim of comic affect, and or ridicule. As comedy, this distort, or exaggerates, distinctive feature of the original, as ridicule, mimics the work by repeating, or borrowing words, phrases, or characteristics, in order to eliminate weaknesses in the original.

Point of view

In literature, it is the perspective form of from which the story is told.

Personification

I figure speech in which the author presents or describes concepts animals, or in inanimate objects, by endowing them with human attributes or emotions.

Repetition

The duplication, either exact or approximate of any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause sentence, or grammatical pattern.

Rhetoric

This term describes the principles governing the art of writing, effectively eloquently and persuasively.

Rhetorical situation

This collectively refers to the exigence, purpose, audience, writer, context, and message.

Satire

A work that targets, human vices, and Follies, or social institutions, and conventions, for reform or radical

Syntax

The way an author chooses to join words and phrases, clauses and sentences.

Theme

The central idea or message of work, the insight offers into life.

Thesis

Expository writing this statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion or purpose, meaning or position.

Tone

Similar to mood, it describes the authors attitude toward his material, the audience or both it is easier to determine in spoken language, then written language, considering how work would sound if it were read aloud Can help identify this.

Transition

A word or phrase that links different ideas, usually especially. This is often used to signal a shift from one idea to another.

Understatement

The ironic minimizing of a fact, this presents something as less significant than it is, the effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic.

Wit

In modern usage, intellectually, amazing language, that surprises and delights. This statement is humorous as well, suggesting the speakers, verbal power, and creating in genius and perceptive remarks.