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Is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form:
Hawthorne- "...the wearers of petticoat and
farthingale...stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng..."
What is Litotes
sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them. (Use of such syntactic subordination of just one clause to another is known as hypotaxis).
I am tired because it is hot.
what is hypotactic
This is a short piece of non-fiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject
What is an essay
a very short story in poetry or prose that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life
What is a fable
A term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape.
what is local color
The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.
What is imagery?
an act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language
What is explication?
A character who acts against the antagonist
What is foil
One in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units. See periodic sentence.
Hawthorne: "Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him, and show the wavering track of this footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure."
what is loose sentence
The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.
What is inversion
a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.
What is Farce?
the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
what is foreshadowing
A poem that doesn’t tell a story but expresses the personal feelings on
thoughts of the speaker. A ballad tells a story.
what is lyric poem
A discrepancy between appearances and reality.
what is irony
a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback
poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
what is free verse
A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch.
what is metonym
poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.
Ezra Pound: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bou
is also a form of contrast by which writers call attention to dissimilar ideas or images or metaphors.
what is juxtaposition
Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms
What is figurative language
a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement,
for effect. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times.
What is hyperbole