Literary Devices
Word pictures that appeal to the senses, evoking feeling and mood
What is Imagry?
The main idea of the story; is the universal truth about human life that the story examines
What is Theme?
Asking questions to generate information and ideas for an essay: Comparison, Definition, Circumstance, Relation, Testimony
What is the 5 Common Topics?
Closing the essay by answering 2 questions, "Who Cares? & Why?" Asking to whom this issue matters and why it matters to that person or group
What is Amplification?
Similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words
What is Parallelism I? What is Word Parallelism?
Inanimate objects as lifelike or human
What is Personification?
The leading character in a narration
What is a Protagonist?
Similarities asking how 2 terms are similar by noting what both terms have, are, and do
What is Comparison I
Opening the essay by relating the essay's ideas to the reader. It's purpose is to make the audience receptive to the essay so they will listen
What is Exordium?
Finding and revising vague and imprecise verbs so to energize and clarify sentences
What are Verbs?
Words of the character or narrator offer information that contradicts what you've already discovered to be true about a character's circumstances, character, or thoughts
What is Irony?
The author discloses the secrets of his plot, unravels its mysteries, and answers the reader's questions. The point in a story in which the conflict is resolved
What is Denouement?
Understanding the difference between 2 terms by identifying difference of Degree and Difference of Kind
What is Comparison II?
Clarifying the agreement and disagreement in the argument while highlighting the precise point of disagreement between a writer and his opponents
What is Division?
Strongly contrasting or opposite ideas are expressed in parallel form
What is Antithesis?
Uses figures of speech or expression that are common or overused
What is Cliche
The main events of a narrative
Plot
Identifying the group to which a term belongs and how it is different from other members of the same group
What is Definition?
Sort affirmative and negative information into related groups, names of groups chose a side to defend, then add sub-proofs to each proof
What is Sorting?
A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related phrases, clauses/sentences, giving harmonious form, interest, and beauty to a sentence or passage
What is Parallelism II? What is Phrase Parallelism?
Objects, persons, pictures, or things to represent an idea, virtue, or philosophy
What is Symbolism
Highest point of action, the "aha" moment when the resolution of the conflict becomes a foregone conclusion
What is Climax?
Generating information about actions and events that occur at the same time as, but in different places from, the situation in which the issue must be decided. Understanding the context in which the issue must be decided
What is Circumstance?
The response to an opposite argument. Anticipating arguments from the opposite position to the author's thesis and pointing out the weaknesses/inadequacies of those opposing arguments
What is Refutation?
Turn outline points into sentences & imitate the most basic essay form Introduction, Proof, and Conclusion
What is Outline to Essay?