1984 Vocab Flashcards
n. an interruption in the action of a story or play to show a scene or event that happened at an earlier time. serves to provide background, information, or history necessary to understanding the characters and plot.
Flashback
n. The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs
Anaphora
n. a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances and supported by evidence
Inference
n. the general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention.
Irony
occurs when the surface meaning of what one says or writes is the opposite of the intended meaning.
Verbal irony
exist when what is expected or intended contrast with what occurs.
Irony of situation
- occurs in fiction or drama when the reader or spectator of affairs than the characters do.
Dramatic irony
- A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true; 2. An assertion that is essentially self-contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises.
Paradox
n. The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.
Parallelism
n. a literary technique of writing or art which ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change
Satire
n. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
synecdoche
n. greed for wealth
Avarice
v. to surrender
Capitulate
n. an accumulation of many things
Compilation
n. moral corruption
Debauchery
