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Group A Vocabulary

Group A Vocabulary. Veronica V Kristen P Madi P Jade F. Abstract. •Language that describes concepts rather than concrete images (images orconcepts and have no physical characteristics) •Love, success, freedom •It doesn't describe much, very vague instead of vivid description. Ad Hominem.

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Group A Vocabulary

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  1. Group A Vocabulary Veronica V Kristen P Madi P Jade F

  2. Abstract •Language that describes concepts rather than concrete images (images orconcepts and have no physical characteristics) •Love, success, freedom •It doesn't describe much, very vague instead of vivid description

  3. Ad Hominem •An attack on the person's characteristics rather than the person's ideas.

  4. Allegory •A work that functions on a symbolic level •"Allegory of the Cave" •What was the symbol in it?

  5. Alliteration •The repetition of initial consonant sounds. •"Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." •Create your own!

  6. Analogy • Definition: an inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others • Example:

  7. Anecdote

  8. Antecedent

  9. Antithesis

  10. Argument • A single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer. • http://youtu.be/YICGahHlHHU

  11. Attitude • The relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and his or her audience.

  12. Balance • Situation in which all parts of the presentation are equal, whether in sentences or paragraphs or sections of a longer work.

  13. Cacophony • Harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage in a literary work.

  14. Character •Those who carry out the action of the plot in literature. Major, minor, static, and dynamic are types of characters.

  15. Colloquial •The use of slang in writing, often to create local color and to provide an informal tone. •Huckleberry Finn

  16. Comic Relief •The inclusion of a humerous characters or scene to contrast with the tragic elements of a work, thereby intensifying the next tragic event.

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