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Refutation
When you dismiss someone’s claim and prove why it was wrong.
Connotation
An additional meaning of a word besides it’s original meaning.
Diction
The particular set of vocabulary in someone’s speech.
Syntax
The combination of words to make a well formed sentence.
Imagery
A description in a story or text that provokes a strong image in the mind.
Metaphor
The comparison of two things without using like or as.
Paradox
A statement or idea that is self-contradictory
Subjunctive/Conditional Mood
Verb used to refer to a hypothetical scenario.
Indicative Mood
Verb used to state facts, opinions, and ask questions.
Passive Voice
When a sentence says what is done to something.
Active Voice
When a sentence says what a person or thing does.
Tone
The mood set by a piece of work.
Situational Irony
Irony where the opposite of what’s expected happens.
Dramatic Irony
When the audience is aware of something the characters are not.
Verbal Irony
When someone says something different than what they mean.
Free Indirect Discourse
A combination of first-person and third-person writing where the author uses the pronouns of third person but particular words or phrases that are the thoughts of one of the characters.
Metaphysical Poetry
Poetry that contains philosophical discussion, paradoxes, etc.
Modernism
A break from original creative styles and the development of new styles.
Metonymy
The replacement of a word that has the same meaning.
Synecdoche
A figure of speech where a part is made to represent a whole or vice versa.
Efferent Reading
Reading to gain information.
Aesthetic Reading
Reading for pleasure.
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence in a poem from one line to the next.
Juxtaposition
Two things placed beside each other for contrasting effect.
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