Elements Flashcards
What is alliteration?
Repeated use of words beginning with the same letter.
‘Water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes”.
“it’s surprisingly simple to add alliteration.”
What is polyptoton?
Repeated use of same word in different parts of speech, grammatical form.
Please please me.
Still counts as long as words have etymological relation, ie. do, done sing, sung gazed a gazeless stare
What is antithesis?
First you mention one thing, then you mention another.
Oscar Wilde,isms
Journalism is unreadable, literature is unread..
Life is sweet, death is sour.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
best of times, worst of times
What is a merism?
When instead of naming what you’re talking about, you name all of it’s parts.
ie. night and day
ladies and gentlemen
What is a Blazon?
Describing a list of lovers body parts, often attaching similes to them.
Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you, Jolene
What is Synaesthesia?
Rhetorical device - one sense described in terms of another
she smelled the way the taj mahal looked at night.
What is aposiopesis?
an unfinished…
tidy your room, or else…
when in rome…
speak of the devil…
usually three reasons,
you can’t go on\
you needn’t go on
you want to leave audience hanging
what is a hyperbaton?
words in an odd order, often ending with verb to avoid ending with preposition.
stone walls do not a prison make
uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
what is anadiplosis?
last word first word, last word first word,
gives illusion of logic
progression
yoda
fear leads to anger
anger leads to hatred,
hatred leads to suffering
billy corgan,
emptiness is loneliness
loneliness..
jc
hopefulness turned to sadness
sadness turned
what is a periodic sentence?
very long sentence, not complete to end
doesnt need to keep using same structures
every breath you take,
every move you make,
every bond you break
every step you take
what is hypotaxis/parataxis
parataxis. good, plain english. i’m going to buy a drink. it’s subject verb object. the cat sat on the mat.
hypotaxis - is a really long way of writing a sentence, which uses a lot of conjunctions so that the sentence doesn’t end before the time when the sun goes up over the mountain behind the hills which originated ..
hypotaxis - proper english sounding, can make crude seem polite.
what is diacope?
burn baby burn run forrest run or elaboration, sunday, bloody sunday human, all too human
aba,
aaba,
romeo, romeo, wherefore art thou, romeo
infamy, theyve all got it in for me
What is a rhetorical question?
unclear!
erotosis - statement reframed as question
ie. how cute is viltje!
epiplexis - what’s the point? why, god, why? insulting.
anacoenosis - bring out shared values, why dont we do it in the road?
hypophora? - immediately answered aloud.
what is a hendiadys?
take adjective and noun - noisy city becomes “noise and city”
also - her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
hard for reader to identify.
what is an epistrophe?
ending each sentence/paragraph/clause with the same word.
the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
hallelujah
