Vocab

Vocab Page | Words of knowlegde by Matt Golden

Word	Definition	Visuals
Grammar	The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
Rhetoric	Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
Genre	How a person would categorize something. Different categories.
Abstract Language	Not applied or practical; theoretical. Voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
Concrete Language	Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses. Voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
Point of view	A position from which something is observed or considered; a standpoint.
Narration	A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events.
Colloquial	Informal; saying "his" instead of "John's".
Description	The act, process, or technique of describing.
Process	A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result .
Analysis	The study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole.
Classification	The act, process, or result of classifying.
Simile	A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared.
Metaphor	A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison.
Symbol	Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
Comparison	The act of comparing or the process of being compared. Similar objects.
Contrast	The act of contrasting; a setting off of dissimilar entities or objects.
Juxtaposition	The state of being placed or situated side by side.
Balance	A state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.
Tone	The quality or character of sound.
Proportion	A relationship between things or parts of things with respect to comparative magnitude, quantity, or degree.
Objective	Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices
Subjective	Writing or expressing feelings using I, we, etc.... Letting your emotions come into your writing.
Evaluation	To examine and judge carefully; appraise.
Euphemism	The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.
Irony	The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
Sarcasm	A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
Parody	A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
Logic	A system of reasoning
Post hoc fallacy	The logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
Straw man fallacy	False notion.
False analogy	An analysis made by an observation that is not necessarily true.