Dec. 13 Flashcards
Know the difference between epanalepsis, diacope, and epistrophe. Epanalepsis repeats the beginning word with the end, diacope repeats words in the middle, and epistrophe repeats words only at the ends.
Arcane
understood by few; mysterious or secret.
Cadre
a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
Chortle
laugh in a breathy, gleeful way; chuckle.
Disingenuous
not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
Halcyon
denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.
Milieu
a person’s social environment.
Patrician
an aristocrat or nobleman.
Scintilla
a tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling.
Vitiate
spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
Supercilious
behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
Antecedent (Rhetoric)
the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun (it, they)
Diacope (Rhetoric)
the repetition of a word or phrase broken up by one or more intervening words. eg: “I hate to be poor, and we are degradingly poor, offensively poor, miserably poor, beastly poor.”
Encomium (Rhetoric)
A tribute or eulogy in prose or verse honoring people, objects, ideas, or events. Praise.
Epanalepsis (Rhetoric)
repetition at the end of a line, phrase, or clause of the word or words that occurred at the beginning of the same line, phrase, or clause. eg: “Believe not all you can hear, tell not all you believe.”
Epistrophe (Rhetoric)
Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words.
