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Understanding Vocabulary and Style: Key Terms and Concepts for Effective Analysis

This resource offers a comprehensive guide to essential vocabulary and style concepts, crucial for effective text analysis. Explore detailed definitions and applications of terms such as "explicate," "characteristic," "contemporary," and "controversial." Gain insights into organizing ideas with syntax structures like cumulative and periodic sentences, as well as rhetorical devices such as parallelism and euphemism. Enhance your analytical skills and writing clarity with these foundational concepts, applicable in various contexts.

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Understanding Vocabulary and Style: Key Terms and Concepts for Effective Analysis

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  1. A.P. Vocabulary: Style Analysis Unit 1, Test 2

  2. 1. To explicate • Verb • To analyze and develop an idea or text in detail • Noun • a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it 2. Characteristic

  3. 3. Contemporary • Adjective • living or occurring at the same time; dating from the same time • Verb • To explain or make (something) clear by using examples, charts, pictures, etc 4. To illustrate

  4. 5. Controversial • Adjective • Giving rise to public disagreement • Verb • To give special importance or prominence to 6. To emphasize

  5. 7. Relevant • Adjective • Pertaining to; related to • Adjective • intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive 8. didactic

  6. 9. Cumulative/Loose • Adjective • Syntax and Organization type: A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. A work containing many loose sentences often seems informal, relaxed, or conversational. Generally, loose sentences create loose style. • (Example: I arrived at the San Diego airport after a long, bumpy ride and multiple delays.) • Adjective • Syntax and Organization type: a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. This independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone. The effect of a periodic sentence is to add emphasis and structural variety. It is also a much stronger sentence than the loose sentence. • (Example: After a long, bumpy flight and multiple delays, I arrived at the San Diego airport.) 10. Periodic

  7. 11. Inversion • Noun • Syntax and Organization type: change of order so that the first becomes last and the last first • Adjective • Syntax and Organization type: the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. 12. Parallelism

  8. 13. Euphemism • Noun • more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. • Noun • Mythological, Biblical, or historical reference 14. Allusion

  9. 15. Oxymoron • Noun • an oxymoron is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms suggest a paradox.

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