AICE LANG Flashcards
Alliteration
The repetition of an inicial consonant sound
Ex. BOOM BOOM BOOM
Allusion
A brief usually indirect reference to a place, event- real or fictional
Ex: You’re a regular Einstein
Analogy
Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases
“Just as a sword is a weapon of a warrior, a pen is a weapon of a writer.”
Anaphora
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
“Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”
Antithesis
Contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
“Speech is silver but silence is gold”
Aphorism
A tersely phased statement of truth or opinion.
“The man who moves small mountains begins by carrying small stones”
Apostrophe
A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address an absent person or thing
“Twinkle, Twinkle little star, how i wonder what you are, up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky”
Assonance
The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Ex: M[e]n s[e]ll th[e] w[e]dding b[e]lls
Asyndeton
The omission of conjuctions between words/phrases/clauses (opposite of Polysydenton)
“This is the Villan among you who deceived you, who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…”
(The word “and” is not featured”)
Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with parts reversed.
Ex. “Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you”
Climax
The high point of a culmination of a series of events.
Ex. “I was walking towards the door that had blood seeping through the opening”
Colloquial
Characteristics of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language
Ex. “Go bananas= go crazy”
Comparison
A rhetorical strategy in which a writer examines a similarity/differences between two things.
Ex. The Sky color in U.S. and in China
Conjunction
The part of a speech (or word) that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Ex. F= For A= and N= No B= But O= Or Y= Yet S= So
Connotation
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
Ex. A dove implies peace or gentility
Denotation
The direct and dictionary meaning of a word, in comparison to its figurative or associative meaning.
“Ex. “And on a dag we meet to walk in line, and set the wall between us again” -RF
Wall= physical boundary
Diction
The choice and use of words in speech or writing.
Didactic
Intended or inclined to teach or instruct often excessively.
Ex. “All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others”
Epiphora
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses.
Ex. “I’m a pepper, he’s a pepper, she’s a pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too? Dr. Pepper!”
Ethos
Persuasive appeal on the speaker
Ex. Justin Bieber for Neutrogena
Euphemism
Substitution of an offensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
Ex. He is a special child (disabled)
Extended Metaphor
Comparison between two unlike things that continue throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
Ex. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players”
Hypophora
A rhetorical term for a strategy in which a speaker or writer raises a question then answers it.
Ex. “ You might wonder why I’m in this position right now”
“I went back in time”
Invective
Dirty or abusive language; blame on someone.
Ex. “You are a worthless wimp with no future”
Jargon
Specialized language of a professional often meaningless to outsiders.
Ex. “getting on a soapbox”
Juxtaposition
Placing dissimilar items together for contrast
Ex. Jumbo Shrimp
Meiosis
Understatement or belittle
Ex. “I fear I am not perfect in mind” -WS
Metonymy
Word/Phrase is substituted for another with close association
Ex. “Crown” for “Royaltty”
Oxymoron
Contradictory terms side by side
Ex. “Open secret”
Paradox
Statement that contradict itself
Ex. “Your enemy’s friend is your enemy”
Parallelism
Similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
Ex. “Like father, like son”
Prose
Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse. (Both fiction and non-fiction)
Ex. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family happy in its own way”
Refutation
Speaker/writer anticipates and counters opposing views.
Ex. “Pro-life or pro-choice”
Rhetoric
Study and practice of effective persuasion.
Ex. “All blondes are dumb”
Satire
Text or performance that uses Irony, derision or wit to expose or attack human vice.
Ex. “The Daily Show” expresses opinion on politics.
Synecdote
General represents the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for general, the general for the specific, or the material from it.
Ex. “Bread”= food or money
Syntax
The study of rules that govern the way words combine/ the arrangement of words in a sentence.
Ex. “That night I sat in Ryan’s bed and waited for him to touch me….”
