toolbox terms 4

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- Point of View:

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

- Prose:

One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. In prose, the printer determines the length of the line; in poetry, the poet determines the length of the line.

- Parody:

A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. As comedy, parody distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original.

- Rhetoric:

From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.

- Epistrophe:

The opposite of anaphora, repetition at the end of successive clauses.

Example: "They saw no evil, they spoke no evil, and they heard no evil."

- Satire:

A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. It can be recognized by devices used by the satirist: irony, wit, parody, caricature, hyperbole, understatement, and sarcasm. Effective satire is often humorous and thought-provoking, offering insight into the human condition.

- Semantics:

The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.

- Syllogism:

From the Greek for "reckoning together," a syllogism is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first called "major" and the second "minor") that lead to a sound conclusion.

Example:

- Major premise: All men are mortal.

- Minor premise: Socrates is a man.

- Conclusion: Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

- Trope:

An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas. A word is used in a sense other than its proper or literal one. Common types include: metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, personification, hyperbole, litotes, irony, oxymoron, onomatopoeia.

- Understatement:

The ironic minimizing of fact, presenting something as less significant than it is. It is the opposite of hyperbole, but similarly creates emphasis.