Definitions
anything that represents itself and stands for something else
What is Symbol/Symbolism?
Thesis
What is the sentence or a group of sentences that directly expresses the author’s opinion, purpose, meaning, or position?
An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices.
What is style?
Descriptive words for________: playful, serious, businesslike, sarcastic, humorous, formal, ornate, sardonic, and somber.
What is Tone?
When two words, phrases, images, ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast. It often calls attention to extremes.
What is Juxtaposition?
The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic.
What is Understatement?
Syntax
What is the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences?
Usually this is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, it may be directly stated, especially in expository or argumentative writing--shows the central idea of the wrok
What is Theme?
Major premise: All men are mortal
Minor premise: Socrates is a man.
Conclusion: Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
What is syllogism?
This is a straightforward, organic form of writing that follows the natural flow of language and is based on spoken language
What is Prose?
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
What is Satire?
Transition
What are words or phrases that link different ideas?
Symbols are those that have been invested with meaning by a group (religious symbols such as a cross or Star of David; national symbols, such as a flag or an eagle; or group symbols, such as a skull and crossbones for pirates or the scales of justice for lawyers
What are Conventional Symbols?
She gave birth to me, raised me from an infant, and always provided for me… Maybe I owe her one.
What is an Understatement?
Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, nor, but, or, yet, so) not normally found in successive words, phrases or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses.
What is Polysyndeton?
A statement with _____ is humorous, while suggesting the speaker’s verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks. This usually uses terse language that makes a pointed statement.
What is Wit?
Undertone
What is an attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece?
Objects and occurrences from nature to represent ideas commonly associated with them (dawn = hope or a new beginning, a rose = love, a tree = knowledge).
What are Natural Symbols?
"She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach."
What is Tricolon?
Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something.
What is Enumeratio?
From the Greek for “reckoning together; a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called “major” and the second, “minor”) that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.
What is Syllogism?
What is is a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion , section, or main quality for the whole or the thing itself (or vice versa)?
These symbols are sometimes also conventional in the sense that they are found in a variety of works and are generally recognized.
What are Literary Symbols?
If we had some wheels, I’d put on my best threads and ask for Jane’s hand in marriage.
Wheels; Threads; Hand
Synecdoche:
Wheels: Car
Threads: Clothes
Hand: Jane
s a figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words.
What is Chiasmus?