Vocab Test 1

meta

(of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential often by drawing attention to its own artificiality

Swales's rhetorical moves

1. establish significance of your research area 2. summarize previous relevant research (called "lit review") 3. point out a "gap" in that previous research 4. make clear that you intend to use your writing to fill the "gap" pointed out in 3

antagonist

a character or force in conflict with the main character (protagonist)

quotation

a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker

euphony

a harmonious succession of words having a pleasing sound

rhetorical device

a linguistic tool that employs a particular type of sentence structure, sound, or pattern of meaning in order to invoke a particular reaction from an audience

theme

a main idea, moral, or message of a literary work; the message may be about life, society, or human nature

burkean parlor

a metaphor introduced by philosopher and rhetorician Kenneth Burke (1897-1993) for "the 'unending conversation' that is going on at the point in history when we are born"

quote sandwich

a method that aids you in effectively adding quotes: 1. introducing the quote 2. including your quote 3. explaining the importance of your quote

three-act structure

a narrative structure that is split into three parts: the setup, the confrontation, and the resolution

narrator

a person or character who tells a story, or a voice fashioned by an author to recount a narrative

signal phrase

a phrase, clause, or sentence that introduces a quotation, paraphrase, or summary

peer review

a process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field

in-text-citation

a reference made within the body of text of an academic essay

query

a request for information from a database

inquiry

a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge

scene

a sequence where a character or characters engage in some sort of action and/or dialogue

homeoteleuton

a series of words with the same or similar endings

narrative

a spoken or written account of connected events; a story

alliteration

a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series

Boolean language search

a type of search allowing users to combine keywords with operators (or modifiers) such as AND, NOT, and OR to further produce more relevant results

syntax

aka sentence structure; concerns the rules/suggestion on how words "should" be ordered

symploce

combining anaphora and epistrophe; repeating words at both the beginning and the ending of a phrase

imagery

description that appeals to the senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste

epistrophe

forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

voice

generally considered to be a combination of a writer's use of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc.

primary source

involves collecting information directly from the world around you and include interview, observations, and surveys

parallelism

recurrent syntactical similarity

dialogue

refers to a conversation reported in a drama or narrative

consonance

repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase

natural language search

search carried carried out in everyday language, phrasing questions as you would ask them if you were talking to someone

diction

style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words

an abstract

summarizes, usually in one paragraph of 300 words or less, the major aspects of the entire paper

attribution

the ascribing of a work (as of literature or art) to a particular author or artist

mood

the atmosphere or emotional condition created by the piece, within the setting

tone

the expression of a writer's attitude toward subject, audience, and self

versimilitude

the extent to which a reader is able to believe in a fictional work; the appearance of truth

protagonist

the main character in a story

point of view

the perspective from which a speaker or writer recounts a narrative or presents information

anaphora

the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism

character

the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art

aesthetics

the theory of beauty, or more broadly, as that together with the philosophy of art

plot

the unified structure of incidents in a literary work

discourse

the use of spoken or written language in a social context

style

the way in which something is spoken, written, or performed

bibliography

the works or list of the works referred to in a text or consulted by the author in its production

paraphrase

to restate in other words

predictive search

uses predictive search algorithm based on popular searches to predict a user's search query as it is typed

secondary source

were created by someone who did NOT experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching, [and often] interprets and analyzes primary sources