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| parody | an exaggerated imitation of a serious work for the humorous purposes. |
| pathos | Qualities of fictional or nonfictional work that evoke sorrow or pity. |
| Periodic | Sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all the introductory elements. |
| Persona | The voice of the writer determined by the audience. |
| Personification | Figurative language in which inanimate objects, animals, ideas take on human traits or form. |
| Point of View | The prospective from which the fictional nonfictional sotry is told. First person, third person, or omniscient narrorator. |
| Polysyndeton | Sentence which uses and or another conjunction with no commas to separate the items in a series. |
| Post hoc, ergo propter hoc | Latin for "after this, therefore because of this." |
| Red Herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue. |
| Refutation | When a writer musters relevant opposing arguments. |
| Repetition | Word or phrase used two or more items in close porximity. |
| Rhetoric | The art of effective writing and speaking. |
| Satire | A work that exaggerates human behavior and makes a mockery of it. |
| Sarcasm | A type of verbal irony. |
| Simile | A figurative comparison of two things, cften, idssimilar, using the connecting words like or as. |
| Straw Man | When a writer argues against a claim no one cares about. They waste time to take up space. BS. |
| Style | The choices in diction tone and snytax a writer chooses. |
| Symbol | A thing, event, or person that represents or stands for some idea or event. |
| Syntactic Fluency | Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. |
| Syntactic Permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult to follow. |
| Theme | The central idea of the work, revealed and developed in the course of the story. |
| Euphemism | a word that takes the place of another word. |
