Terms
A complex sentence, especially one consisting of several clauses, constructed as part of a formal speech or narration.
*main point is at the end of a long sentence
What is a periodic sentence?
“Mrs. Wright’s Corgi, the one with the floppy ears, loves to chase the laser pointer.”
The placing of clauses one after another without the use of words to indicate coordination or subordination.
What is paratactic structure?
A trope in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express.
What is verbal irony?
intended to explain or describe something
What is expository writing (rhetorical mode)?
The _____________ of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath includes an intercalary chapter describing the beginning of the Dust Bowl.
What is exposition?
The _____________ in Steinbeck's _The Grapes of Wrath_ is incredibly various as it shifts from the third person, omniscient narrator telling the story of the Joad family, to other varied _____________ in which we see many different perspectives and events.
What is voice/speaker?
Rather than simply stating the facts, the news reporter said that the Presidential candidate was acting like a ‘crazed animal’ during the debate.
What is subjectivity?
Approach, disposition, stance
What is attitude?
jumbo shrimp
deafening silence
What is an oxymoron?
A literary theory that regards the literature as is deliberately designed to achieve certain effects in the reader.
What is pragmatic theory?
“One must be cruel to be kind.”
What is a paradox?
The brilliance of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is the ___________ by Holden Caulfield, which paints the picture of the American teen.
What is narration?
"A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave..."
What is invective?
The colloquial _________ in which Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye allows the reader to feel a genuine connection to the narrator.
What is style?
"Hate stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.”
What is an antithesis?
(a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other)
“The fear of being punished for the discrimination of minorities at the workplace leads to the discrimination of the rest of the population; legislators must consider this consequence before setting laws into place that may only further imbalance.”
What is a THESIS?
(Note the structure): "After deciding to study for the vocabulary quiz, I aced it!"
What is hypotactic structure?
The story lacked ______________; I simply couldn’t believe it could ever possibly happen.
What is verisimilitude?
"When the lawyer asked him if he regretted stealing the money, whether he said yes or no he would be incriminated.”
What are loaded questions?
Some people love the elaborate metaphors used in Romantic poetry; however, I believe it is __________ used by a bunch of hippies of the 19th century.
What is CONCEIT?
My pleasant things in ashes lie,
And then behold no more shall I.
What is inversion?
“74 eyes watched my every move.”
What is synecdoche?
“If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
What is an aphorism?
Wordsworth, who made the "single most important pronouncement of the emotive theory of poetry," wrote that poetry “is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” In this view, "the source of the poem is no longer the external world [as in mimetic theories] but the poet himself; and . . . the subject matter of the poem [is] the poet’s 'feelings.'"
What is expressive theory?