Monday, February 16, 2015

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism
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Repetition in syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetoric affect.

Parody
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 A funny imitation of a serious piece.

Pathos
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Evoking feeling.

Pedantry
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Undue display of learning.

Poignant
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Strong feeling.

Prose
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Ordinary, everyday speech.

Requiem
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For he repose of the dead.

Scansion
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The marks used to analyze a piece of literature.