A Flashcards
Adjective
Describing words
Adverb
A word that describes a verb
Allegory
A text that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
Alliteration
Repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words
Allusion
Brief reference to a person, place, idea or thing of literary, cultural, political or historical significance.
Analogy
A comparison between two different things in order to highlight a point of similarity
Anaphora
Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence.
Anecdote
Essentially a story, a recount of something that has happened.
Antistrophe
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or stanzas.
Antithesis/Oxymoron
(just focus on antithesis, oxymoron will be in the O deck, they are just together so that you know they are similar things)
Antithesis: language technique that presents two contrasting ideas in a sentence, but not the same phrase.
Oxymoron: Phrase that uses two contradictory or opposing terms eg, “act naturally”
Antithetical erotesis
Rhetorical question implying strong affirmation or denial between two directly contrasting statements
eg - “had you rather caesar were living and die all slaves, than that caesar were dead to live all freemen”
Assonance
The repetition of a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds as in the tongue twister “Moses supposes his toeses are roses”
Asyndeton
Where one or more conjunctions are taken out of a series of words. eg “i came, i saw, i conquered” removes AND
