Wednesday, February 27, 2013

More old Lit terms 83-108..

1.Omniscient:  knowing all things.

2.Onomatopoeia: sound effect

3.Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a paradox.

4.Pacing:  rate of movement

5.Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

6.Paradox: self-contradictorystatement


7.Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

8.Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of something well known

9.Pathos: appeal to emotion

10.Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

11.Personification; attributing human qualities to an inanimate objects .

12.Plot: a plan or scheme for a purpose.

13.Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

14.Point of View: the physical point of verification.

15.Postmodernism:characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, and multiple meaning.

16.Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

17.Protagonist: Hero of the story.

 
18.Pun:  play on words.

19.Purpose: authors reason for writing.

20.Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life

21.Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in song or chorus.

22.Requiem:  any chant,hymn, or musical service for the dead.

23.Resolution: point where problem is solved

24.Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

25.Rhetoric: use of language,order to persuade.

26.Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer

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