The UVic Writer's Guide


Index


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A

Absolute Phrase
Abstractions (in logic)
Accusative case
Adjective
Adverb
Agreement

Allegory
Alliteration
Ambiguity

Analogy

Analyis in paragraphs
Aphorism
Apostrophe (in rhetoric)
Apostrophes

Appeal to authority
Appeal to force
Archetype
Argument

Article
Aside (dramatic)
Assonance
Athena, goddess of wisdom
Aubade
Audience
Auxiliary verb
Awk (Awkward), marking symbol


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B

Ballad
Bathos
Begging the Question
Bibliography

Black or white, in logic
Blank Verse
Body Of Essay
Bombast
Book Review
Brainstorming
Burlesque
Buzz-Phrase Generator


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C

Canon
Capitalization

Caricature
Catastrophe
Case
Catchall Explanation
Catharsis
Cause and effect
Causes, in paragraphs
Character
Chiasmus
Chorus
Chronological order

Circular Argument
Citation

Clarity
Classification
Clauses

Clichˇs
Climax, in paragraphs
Coherence
Colloq (Colloquial), marking symbol
Colon
Comedy
Comma

Comma splice

Comparison and contrast

Completion
Complex sentence

Compound sentence

Compound-complex sentence
Conceit (figurative language)
Conclusion, of essay
Conjunction
Conjunctive adverb
Connotation
Consonance
Constr (Construction), marking symbol


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D

Dangling or Misplaced modifiers

Dash
Deductive reasoning
Definition, in paragraphs
Denotation
Denouement in plot
Discourse
Drama (genre)
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Lyric
Dramatic Monologue


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E

Elegy
Empathy
English

Epic
Epigram
Epithet
Errors, sentence
Essay

Euphemism
Evidence

Exam Essays


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F

Fable
Fallacies of Relevance
False analogy
Familiar to unfamiliar, in paragraphs
Feminine rhyme
Figurative language
Films, in bibliography
First draft or essay
Formal English
Frag (Sentence Fragment)
Free Verse


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G

Gender-specific language

General to particular, in paragraphs
Generalization, in logic
Genetive case
Genre
Gerund
Grades Or Why Did I Get That "B-"
Grammar


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H

Hamartia
Heptameter
Heroic Couplet
Hexameter
High Burlesque
Homonyms
Hudibrastic Poem
Humour
Hyper-correct
Hyperbole
Hyphens


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I

Iambic pentameter
Idiom (Id), marking symbol
Imagery
Implied author
Increasing importance, in essays
Indeterminacy
Infinitive
Inflectional system
Informal English
Interjection
Internal rhyme
Interrogation
Intertext
Intertextuality
Introduction

Inverted triangle"
Irony


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J

Jargon
Jargon Index

K

L

Lampoon
Logic
Low Burlesque
Lyric
Lyric, dramatic


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M

Magic realism
Malapropism
Marking Symbols
Masculine rhyme
Melodrama
Metadrama
Metafiction
Metaphor
Meter
Metonymy
Misplaced Modifiers
Mixed Metaphors
MLA style
Mock Epic (Mock Heroic)
Modifiers

Monologue, dramatic
Mood
Motif
Myth


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N

Name-calling
Narration, in paragraphs
Narrator
Negation
Nominative case
Non sequitur
Non-restrictive clause
Notes, how to take
Noun
Noun strings
Novel


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O

Object

Ode
Onomatopoeia
Order, within paragraphs
Organization, of essay
Outline

Oxymoron


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P

Paradox
Paragraphs

Parallelism

Parentheses
Parody
Participle
Particular to general, in paragraphs
Parts of Speech
Passive Voice
Pastoral
Pathos
Pentameter
Perfect rhyme
Peripety
Persona
Personification
Phrases

Plagiarism
Plot
Plural
Poetic Justice
Point of Vew
Popular English
Portmanteau word
Possessive case
Possessive Pronouns
Precis

Predicate

Predication
Preposition
Presentation, of essay
Primary sources

Problem Play
Pronoun

Proofreading
Propaganda
Prosopopeia
Protagonist
Pun
Punctuation

Purgation


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Q

Quotations


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R

Realism
Reasoning, deductive
Redundant (Red)
Referent
Rep (Repitition)
Research Essays
Restrictive clause
Results, in paragraphs
Review essay
Revising the essay
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Question
Rhyme

Romance
Run-on sentence


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S

Sample essays

Satire
Secondary sources

Self-reflexive
Semi-colon
Sentence Fragment
Sentences

Short Story
Sign (literary term)
Signified
Signifier
Simile
Singular
Slanted Language
Soliloquy
Sonnet
Sources

Spelling

Spelling checker
Stanza
Stock Characters
Stock Situations
Stream-of-Consciousness Narration
Structural Irony
Style, MLA
Subject

Subject completion
Subject/Verb Agreement
Summary (how to make one) Summaries of common problems

Supporting evidence
Syllogism
Symbol
Sympathy
Synechdoche
Synthetic verb form


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T

Taking notes
Televison programs, citing
Tense (T)
Tetrameter
Theme
Thesis

Title page
Titles

Tone of essay
Topic sentence Topics, narrowing for essay Tragedy
Tragicomedy
Transitions

Travesty
Trimeter
Turning point, in tragedy


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U

Undefined Terms in logic
Understatement
Unity

Usage

V

Variation, in sentences


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Verb

Verb Phrase
Verbal
Verbal Irony
Verse paragraphs
Versification
Victor (Library computer)
Videos, in bibliography
Voice


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W

Wit
Word processors
Wordiness

Works Cited

Wrong Word (WW), marking symbol

XYZ

Zeugma


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