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| the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb) "`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice" |
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| a short moral story (often with animal characters)) |
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| use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse) "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" |
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An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. |
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| an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others) |
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| (someone who offers opposition) |
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a disappointing or ineffective conclusion to a series of events, etc.
The last thing that I think
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- A contrast or opposition between two things.
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| to indicate the possessive case, as in man's; or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as in several M.D.'s, 3's. |
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In this kind of essay, we not only give information but also present an argument with the PROS (supporting ideas) and CONS (opposing ideas) of an argumentative issue. We should clearly take our stand and write as if we are trying to persuade an opposing audience to adopt new beliefs or behavior. The primary objective is to persuade people to change beliefs that many of them do not want to change.
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anecdotal evidence
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| non-scientific observations or studies, which do not provide proof but may assist research efforts |
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This chapter provides anecdotal evidence from personal interviews, public hearings, and surveys. |
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| Language belonging to an earlier time and generally no longer used. Words or expressions that have passed out of use are archaic.. |
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| A remark by a character in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters. |
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| In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables (e.g., penitence, reticence). |
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atmosphere
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| The emotional feelings inspired by a work |
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| The person(s) reading a text, listening to a speaker, or observing a performance |
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| A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer--written by that actual person. |
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| In common parlance, song hits, folk music, and folktales or any song that tells a story are loosely called ballads |
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| a four-line stanza consisting of unrhymed first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and rhymed second and fourth lines in iambic trimeter, often used in ballads. |
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| to cause partiality or favoritism in (a person); influence, especially unfairly: a tearful plea designed to bias the jury. |
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| A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer |
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| Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. |
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- a tragedy
- characters are extremes of good and evil
- emotional effects are achieved through violence and intrigue at the expense of realism.
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- a figure of speech
- states direct comparison between two dissimilar things.
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- organization of speech rhythms (verbal stresses) into regular patterns
- in terms of both arrangement of stresses and their frequency of repetition per line of verse.
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| A monologue is the thoughts of a person spoken out loud. |
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| feeling or emotional state created in the reader's mind by an author's descriptive details |
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- Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- or a genre of literature which uses suspense and intrigue.
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Can be
- a falsehood widely believed
- story that was / is part of beliefs of a culture
- explains the nature of the world and social conventions as the result of influence of supernatural beings.
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a story or account of events, experiences,
or the like, whether true or fictitious. |
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| the action or process of narrating a story. |
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- The person who tells the story.
- may or may not be in the story themselves
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objective (language tone etc.)
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A viewpoint:
- not influenced by the emotions or prejudices
- based on observed facts
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Objective Point of View
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when a person provides only facts leaving them open for debate and other opinions to be factored in in order to arrive at a conclusion after extensively exploring the given facts.
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- An eight line poem or stanza
- 8 lines of a Petrarchan sonnet referred to as octave.
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- long lyric poem which deals with a serious subject in an elevated style
- Odes are written for a special occasion to honour a person or a season or to commemorate and event.
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Omniscient Point Of View
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| all knowing", insight into thoughts, feelings of all characters |
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- Use of words whose sounds seem to imitate the sounds associated with the act involved.
- ie. crack crack crunch
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- a type of paradox
- combines two terms ordinarily seen as opposites.
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| A statement which reveals a truth though it seems at first to be self-contradictory. |
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| The use of words, phrases, clauses or sentences that are similar in grammatical structure. |
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| A literary work that imitates the style of another literary work. |
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- subject of the sentence is neither a do-er or be-er
- is acted upon by some other agent or by something unnamed.
- ie. The work was finished.
- (unnamed agent doing this work?
- instead of: I finished the work.
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- A figure of speech
- inanimate (non-living) objects, animals or abstract ideas are given human qualities.
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- Persuasive writing is emotionally charged, personal
- attempts to convince the reader that the point of view of course of action recommended by the writer is valid.
- Only one side of the issue is presented or uneven representatin is given to the sides
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| sequence of events or actions in a literary work. |
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- Who is telling the story:
- First Person-- a story told using I,me,we
- Third person - told using he/she/they
- Omniscient--"all knowing", insight into thoughts, feelings of all characters
- Limited Omniscient-reader given insights into thoughts of some characters
- Objective- told in third person, reader must interpret character's actions/speech, uncover meaning/ neutral point of view- developed using dialogue
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- introductory section of literary work
- often contains information establishing the situation of the characters or presents of information about the setting, time period, or action.
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- ideas spread deliberately to further a cause
- often distorts facts or contains lies
- can be spread in any media form
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central or main character of a literary work
- not necessarily the hero
- Example: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet
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- A pithy saying that had gained credence (belief) through widespread or frequent use.
- Most proverbs express some basic truth or practical precept (idea).
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- The reason(s) for which the text has been written.
- Some of the main purposes of writing are to inform; to persuade; to entertain; to convey a personal experience; to rouse to action.
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- A play on words
- word or phrase used to deliberately convey two meanings at the same time.
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