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Sentences & Stuff
Watch Your Language!
Voice Lessons
100
The opposite of "literal language"; writing that is not meant to be taken literally
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
100
An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.
What is ALLUSION
100
A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb BUT IS NOT A SENTENCE.
What is CLAUSE.
100
Lauguage descirbing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people or places.
What is ABSTRACT LANGUAGE
100
The subject of the sentence performs the action.
What is ACTIVE VOICE.
200
Making an implied comparsion, not using "like," "as," or other such words.
What is METAPHOR
200
A brief recounting of a relevant episode.
What is ANECDOTE
200
Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses.
What is COMPOUND SENTENCE
200
Don't be so hard-headed! This is language that describes specific, observable things, peoples or places, rather than ideas or qualities.
What is CONCRETE LANGUAGE.
200
The subject of the sentence receives the action.
What is PASSIVE VOICE.
300
Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind.
What is IMAGERY
300
Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. (Mrs. Nix makes you bold the opposite in every essay!)
What is ANTITHESIS
300
Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is COMPLEX SENTENCE
300
What up, yo? This is language or dialect of a particular country, language or dialect of a regional clan or group, plain everyday speech.
What is VERNACULAR
300
A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.
What is TONE.
400
When the opposite of what you expect to happen does.
What is IRONY
400
A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts.
What is ALLEGORY
400
One in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale. (Scale is the operative word here...)
What is BALANCED SENTENCE
400
These TWO terms mean the implied meaning rather than literal meaning AND the literal, explicit meaning of a word, without the first.
What is CONNOTATION and DENOTATION.
400
Word choice, particularly as an element of style.
What is DICTION.
500
A generally bitter comment that is ironically worded.
What is SARCASM
500
A folk saying with a lesson
What is ADAGE.
500
When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence. (Remember our friends IC and DC?)
What is PERIODIC SENTENCE.
500
*^&%$! An emotionall violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language
What is INVECTIVE
500
The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity.
What is JARGON.