English Flashcards
Elegy
Poetry that expresses grief or loss
Ballad
Short narrative folk song - 4 line stanzas (alternating syllables 8 then six syllables)
Haiku
575
Epic
Highlights heroic deeds
Sonnet
14 lines and rhyme scheme. Abab cdcd or abba
Ethos
Ethics - beliefs, ideas
Pathos
Emotional
Logos
Logical approach
Explanatory
Tells audience how something works or why something happens
Juxtaposition
Comparing or contrasting two things to create an effect
Analogy
Compares two unlike things
Anaphora
Repetition of words at start of sentence
Simple sent
Contains only one independent clause
Compound sentence
Two independent clauses
Complex sent
Sub clause ex) after the French Revolution, And independent clause
Compound complex sentence
Two or more independent with at least one dependent clause
Gerunds
Nouns
-Baking is one of my favorite hobbies.
-She loves reading books to the children at the library.
-When it comes to hunting deer, nobody is better than Leroy.
Participles
The crying baby had a wet diaper”.
“The wrecked car was totaled”.
Adjectives or verb tenses