Tuesday, October 28, 2014

E4/WR115: Catching up the vocabulary lists

List 2: Use each term correctly in a sentence. Come up with an example for each term and explain why/how the example works for that term.
  • Denotation: dictionary definition of a word; primary definition
  • Ethos: overall disposition or character of an individual; in rhetoric it is validity of an argument
  • Figurative language: all forms of words that create images (analogy, allusion, alliteration, etc)
  • Free Verse: uses common sense and natural expression; must feel like a poem; plays with expectations of readers and poets; poetry with varying line length that does not need to rhyme
  • Gatekeeper: person who guards a gateway or task; sometimes they are part of the villain’s company or sometimes they can become allies or members of the hero’s group
  • Hero: puts the well-being of his people above his own safety and from beginning to end, he learns important skills and changes as a person
  • Humanism: set of beliefs that focus on activities of mankind – mathematics, naturalism, philosophy, and theology
  • Hyperbole: an extreme overstatement


List 3: Use each term correctly in a sentence. Come up with an example for each term and explain why/how the example works for that term.
  • Irony: the meaning implied differs dramatically from the meaning expressed
  • Metrical Verse: a structure of lines, rhythmic energy, and repetitive sound; meant to be read aloud
  • Memoir: the mostly true story of what the author has learned through life
  • Mentor: teaches and protects the hero; gives the hero magical gifts to help complete the quest; often tied to nature or religion; could be a failed hero who is trying to help the next generation
  • Myth: stories told in pre-literate cultures to explain the universe, mankind’s existence, and how to live in community; a culture's sacred stories
  • Objective: the author presents the information or story with a detached tone
  • Pathos: passions, sufferings, or feelings of an individual; in rhetoric it is the emotional manipulation used in an argument
  • Plot: events and actions in a story and the order they are set to achieve a particular emotional or artistic effect
  • Point of View: the way a story gets told; the way an author presents characters ,dialogue, action, setting, and events


List 4: Use each term correctly in a sentence. Come up with an example for each term and explain why/how the example works for that term.
  • Prose: writing of various purposes whose lines follow the margins
  • Poetry: verse whose purpose is to elicit specific emotion, explore a universal truth, or celebrate something (however small); lines of verse do not follow the margins of a page, especially the right margin
  • Rhetoric: a type of discussion whose chief aim is to persuade the audience to think or act in a particular way
  • Satire: making a topic or lifestyle look ridiculous through presentation and hyperbole
  • Shadow: represents the hidden qualities (inner demons) of the hero; represents the suppressed elements of the other characters – things that seem like weaknesses 
  • Shapeshifter: can change form, but usually appears to change from good to evil, mean to kind, friend to lover, etc.
  • Style: how a speaker or writer uses words to convey a  point or message
  • Subjective: the author incorporates personal experiences or ideas into the information or story
  • Symbol: a word or phrase that signifies something or has a range of reference

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