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GLOSSARY

Poetry - language where rhythm is an essential part of the communicative act, where words are used in a way similar to music to create an effect on the reader or listener.

Song - A short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung.

Philosophy - The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, esp. when considered as an academic discipline.

Lexicon - the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.

Synecdoche - a word that refers to a part of something to mean the whole.

Assonance - the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds close
together to create a musical effect similar to rhyming inside a line of poetry or in prose.

Dissonance - inconsistency between one's actions and one's beliefs; a mingling of discordant sounds.

Antecedent - a word, phrase or clause that determines what a pronoun that follows refers to.

Reciprocal Pronoun - Phrases like 'each other' or 'one another' that show that an action is two-way.

Complement - a noun, pronoun, or a adjective that describes or qualifies the direct object.

Direct Object - the noun that receives the action of the transitive verb.

Quotation Marks - punctuation used at the end of a sentence to indicate a direct question.

Tautology - when two near-synonyms are placed consecutively or very close together for effect.

Parts of Speech - Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections.

Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.

Abbreviation - a word that has been shortened.

Onomatopoeia - a word which imitates the sound it represents.

Epistrophe - the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of different phrases, clauses or sentences.

Oxymoron - combines two terms that are normally contradictory.

Superlative - superior to all others; excessive or exaggerated; the extreme degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb.

Hyperbole - overstatement or exaggerated language that distorts facts by making them much bigger than they are if looked at objectively.

Lyric - (Adj.) Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas. (Noun) A lyric poem or verse.

Parenthesis - a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it; One or both of a pair of marks () used to include such a word, clause, or sentence.

Apodosis - a term for the main clause in a conditional sentence:
"If you tried it, you'd probably love it." The apodosis is "you'd probably love it" and "if you tried it" is the protasis (if clause).

Protasis - a term for the if clause in a conditional sentence. See above.

Simile - a comparison (between two unlike things) using like or as.

Ellipsis - the name of the three dots (...) used as punctuation to show that some written text is incomplete.

Aphorism - a remark or sentence, often a definition, that conveys the truth about something in a concise and witty way.

Subject - the noun, pronoun or noun phrase that precedes and governs the main verb.

Predicate - the verb and any complement of the verb.

Conjunction - a word like AND, BUT, WHEN, OR, etc., which connects words, phrases or clauses.