English Terminology Flashcards
Assonance
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).
Loose sentence
Main clause followed by dependent clauses. I went to the movies yesterday, bought candy, and shopped at the mall.
Rhetoric
Persuasive speech
Synecdoche
(Part for whole) a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland’s baseball team”). (Look at my new wheels!)
Synesthesia
Yellow cocktail music
Antithesis
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. (Mona Lisa is quite the antithesis of her picture)
Ad hominem
1.
(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position.
Anaphora
Deliberate reputation of the first part of a phrase. “Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”
Ad populum
Many believe it so it is (Wikipedia elephant)
Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (pretty ugly)
Anadiplosis
The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime
Motif
a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.
Allegory
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
