Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing,
in which many words are used but a few would have served
Ex: The con man tried to use circumlocution to avoid
explaining his real intentions to the wealthy couple.
Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the
principles of ancient Greece and Rome: tradition, reason, clarity, order, and
balance
Ex: Like his beloved Italy his etchings are suffused with a
classicism that nonetheless appeals to a contemporary esthetic.
Cliché: a phrase or situation overused within society
Ex: Come up with something new because your argument is just
a cliché I’ve heard a thousand times.
Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint
of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or
resolved
Ex: The week came to its shuddering climax with President
Bush 's speech to the UN General Assembly.
Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually
used in informal conversation
Ex: The Pelican has used an English colloquialism which has
a similar meaning.
Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that
was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or
amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter
Ex: I don’t know if the comedy was actually funny or if the
wine made it funny.
Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension
Ex: The conflict of the story really drove the plot and gave
the story such drama. I loved it!
Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary
definition
Ex: Increasingly it has acquired a negative connotation,
implying excessive demand or pressure.
Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or
object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity
Ex: The true believer, in contrast, has eternal life and
will abide forever.
Denotation: plain dictionary definition
Ex: We now work toward a theoretical description of the
denotation of the sentence as a whole.
Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax,
closure, conclusion
Ex: And that's obviously what the denouement of the film is
about.
Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or
group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people
distinguished from others.
Ex: The kind of old English dialect the characters spoke
made the setting really come to life.
Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.
Ex: Dialects of Scots Scots has a wide range of dialects.
Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.
Ex: This dichotomy has recently been questioned by some
linguists who have argued that the distinction is an artificial one
Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in
the choice and use of words.
Ex: Tired diction here, inappropriate register there;
natural, unforced cadence here, resonant phrasing there.
Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information;
education.
Ex: The aim of the periodicals was didactic, but it was a
broad-minded type of didacticism.
Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles.
Ex: The author 's dogmatic assertion of his hero 's heterosexuality
gives some idea of the respect accorded homosexuals in the West.
Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral
song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death,
often with a rural or pastoral setting.
Ex: This completed, twelve chieftains rode around the
barrow, reciting an elegy and speaking of their heroic king.
Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects
the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way
through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time
Ex: The Nine Sisters and the Axis Mundi New ideas on the
axis mundi in northern epic tales by Alby Stone.
Epigram: witty aphorism.
Ex: The moral aspect has been given by Mr Swinburne in an
epigram: - " Alfred was a terrible flirt and George did not behave as a perfect
gentleman."
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