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| Carcicature | descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality. |
| Discourse | spoken or written language, including literary works; the four traditionally classified modes of ____________ are description, exposition, narration, and persuasion. |
| Emotional Appeal | When a writer appeals to readers’ emotions (often through pathos) to excite and involve them in the argument. |
| Epistrophe | repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect (as Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people") Compare to anaphora."When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child." (Corinthians) |
| Example | An individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern. Arguing through this process is considered reliable if _______________ are demonstrable true or factual as well as relevant. |
| Figures of Speech | expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations. |
| Image | A word or words, either figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object perceived by the sense. An image is always a concrete representation. |
| Interior Monologue | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character’s head |
| Logic | the process of reasoning |
| Mode | the method or form of a literary work; the manner in which a work of literature is written |
| Personification | the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is presented; common points of view include the following: |
| First Person Narrator | a narrator, referred to as “I,” who is a character in the story and relates the actions through his or her own perspective, also revealing his or her own thoughts |
| Stream of Consciousness | like a first person narrator, but instead placing the reader inside the character’s head, making the reader privy to the continuous, chaotic flow of disconnected, half-formed thoughts and impressions in the character’s mind |
| Omniscient | third person narrator, referred to as “he,” “she,” or “they,” who is able to see into each character’s mind and understands all the action |
| Limited Omniscient | a third person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees |
| Objective | a third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts and feelings are only revealed if a character speaks of them |
| Protagonist | the main character of a literary work |
| Repetition | Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity |
| Rhetorical Modes | exposition, description, narration, argumentation |
| Setting | Time and place of a literary work |
| Simile | a figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities; for example, “The sky looked like an artist’s canvas.” |
| Syntactic Permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. They are often difficult for a reader to follow. |
