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the readers of a given writing, the authors writing portrays this
(ex. intended age range, educational level, etc) |
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| a state of being in which that our senses can not perceive: ex, love, beauty, hatred, stupidity |
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| this lanuage gives readers omething specific to see, hear, touch, smell, or feel. (ex: a smile, a bird chirping, the sound of a harp) |
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| the name of a THING is applied to another thing or person with which it is closely associated. (ex: Kneel to the crown, the White House announced). |
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| a question asked for dramatic impact which demands no answer (ex: How much more abuse are we going to take from this guy?) |
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| elaborate exaggeration: intended to be humorous or ironic (ex: If you shake his hand, that guy will try to break about 300 of your fingers.) |
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| a dramatic ordering of words, emphasizing some sort of progression/expansion (ex: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's superman!) |
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| the writer's reference to a person, place, thing, literary characteristic or quotation which the reader is expected to recognize. (ex: His name was Romeo...) |
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| the arrangment of two or more equally important ideas in similar gramatical form. (ex: (I came, I saw, I conquered.) |
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a figure of speech in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or otherwise not physically present.
(imaginary person or entity, something inhuman or abstract.)
Speaker addresses as if this object were present and capable of understanding and responding. |
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| an implied comparison that connects two things without an explicit connecting word. (ex: Susanna, the human dynamo,...) |
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| a narrative in which the agents and action, and sometimes setting are contrived so as to make sense on the literal level and to signify a second, correlated level of meaning |
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| the giving of human qualities to inanimate or nonhuman objects |
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a deliberate downplaying of something's seriousness, often for the sake of humor or irony.
(ex: After losing his car, his job, and his wife all within one hour's time, Marvin started to feel it wasn't going to be one of his best days.) |
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the pairing of parts of the whole either to compare or contrast in which neither element of pairing outweighs the other.
"The memory of other authors is kept alive by their works; but the memory of JOhnson keeps many of his works alive." |
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arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance.
EX: Let him acknowledge obligations to his family, his country, and his God. |
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