Vocabulary Words

1. By: Rachael Wood, Kole Birtcher and Luke Callahan Vocabulary Words

2. Parody • a comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original. It can be utterly mocking or gently humorous. it depends on allusion and exaggerates and distorts the original style and content. • Examples: Movies like the series of Scary Movies

3. Pathos • the aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience. An appeal to emotion that can be used as a means to persuade. • Examples: The humane society shows abused animals to draw support

4. Pedantic • a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant. • Example: Prose Style

5. Personification • the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts.(Wordsworth personifies” the sea that bares her bosom to the moon” in the poem” London 1802.”)

6. Periodic Sentence • for emphasis and sentence variety. Phrases and/or  dependent clauses precede the main clause. • Example: The use of complex and compound sentences.

7. Persuasion • a type of argument that has as its goal an action on the part of the audience. • Example: commercials

8. Point of view • a particular attitude or way of considering a matter. • Example:

9. Polemic • a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something • Example:

10. Plot • a sequence of events in a literary work

11. Pun • a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. • Example: