sylistic and rhetorical strategies and terms
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| Asyndeton | conjunctions are omitted, producin a fast-paced & rapid prose. (commas) | |
| Polysyndeton | the use of many conjunctions; has the effect of slowing the pace or emphasizing the numerous words/clauses. (and...) | |
| Anaphora | purposeful repition for emphasis or rhythm. | |
| Allegory | form of an extended metaphor; story with two meanings, literal & symbolic; expresson by means of ficton of truths or generalizations about human existence. | |
| Zeugma | when a preposition or verb has two o more objects on different levels. Ex. | |
| Synecdoche | a form of metaphor, type of metonymy; a part of something is used to signify the whole or vise versa. Ex. | |
| Metonymy | type of metaphor; figure of speech or specific word choice by naming something by its attributes or associations. Ex. The White House asked the TV networks for air time. | |
| Hegemony | leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others. | |
| Epiphany | a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. (lightbulb) | |
| Dystopian Literature | literature describing society opposite utopian; a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. | |
| Motif | a usually recurring thematic element especially a dominant idea or central theme. | |
| Appositive Phrase | a nour or noun phras that renames another noun right beside it. | |
| Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to or replaced by a pronoun. | |
| Parallel Structure | a repetition of sentences using the same grannatical structure emphasizing all aspects of the sentence equally. | |
| Modifier | a word, phrase, or sentence element that limits or qualifies the sense of another word, phrase, or element in the same construction. |
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