English Terminology

Question 1

Anastrophe

Answer 1

Inversion of the usual syntactical order of words
Ex:
Yoda said, “joined the dark side, dooku has.”

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

The rhetorical addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing (“turn away”)
“God deliver me from fools.” English proverb[4]

“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” 1 Corinthians 15:55, Saint Paul of Tarsus

Question 3

Aposiopesis

Answer 3

The omission of or the leaving of a thought incomplete usually by a sudden breaking off of a…
“Get out, or else—!” To mark the occurrence of aposiopesis with punctuation, an em dash (—) or an ellipsis (…) may be used.

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence, clause or phrase. An anaphora is the intended use of repetition that is applied to secure emphasis, emphasis, emphasis.

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke,
In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure,
In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak,
In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.

Question 5

Apposition

Answer 5

An arrangement of words in which a noun or noun phrase is followed by another noun or noun phrase.Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way. The two elements are said to be in apposition. One of the elements is called the appositive, although its identification requires consideration of how the elements are used in a sentence.
My sister, Alice Smith, likes jelly beans.
Alice Smith, my sister, likes jelly beans

Question 6

Asyndeton

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Omission of conjunction words that normally join coordinate words or clauses
Ex: “I came, I saw, I conquered “

Question 7

Isocolon

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A figure of speech in which a sentence is composed of two or more parts (cola) perfectly equivalent in structure, length and rhythm.
Ex: veni, vedi, vici

Question 8

Polysyndeton

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the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted (as in “he ran and jumped and laughed for joy”). The word polysyndeton comes from the Greek “poly-“, meaning “many,” and “syndeton”, meaning “bound together with”. “When thou dost ask me blessing I’ll kneel down and ask of thee forgiveness. So we’ll live and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news, and we’ll talk with them too”

Question 9

Parenthetical insertion (parenthesis)

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An amplifying or explanatory word, phrase, or sentence inserted in a passage from which it is usually set off by punctuation; a remark or passage that departs from the theme of a discourse

Question 10

Surrealist

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Very strange or unusual: having the quality of a dream

Question 11

Existential

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Grounded in existence or the experience of existence: affirming existence

Question 12

Allegory

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A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for political or historical situations

Question 13

Allusion

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A statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly

Question 14

Allusion, extended

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As a normal allusion, but extended throughout a work

Question 15

Exposition

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The act of explaining something: a public show or exhibition

Question 16

Foreshadowing

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To give a suggestion of something that has not yet happened

Question 17

Hyperbole

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Language that describes something as better or worse than it really is

Question 18

Verbal irony

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The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

Question 19

Situational irony

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Incongruity between the actual results of a sequence of events and the normal expected outcome

Question 20

Dramatic irony

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Incongruity between a situation in a drama that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

Question 21

Metaphor

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A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar

Question 22

Extended metaphor

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Like a normal metaphor but extended throughout a work

Question 23

Simile

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A phrase that uses the word like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar

Question 24

Conduplicato

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Repetition throughout a sentence or phrase.

Question 25

Logos

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The logical appeal

Question 26

Ethos

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The ethical appeal

Question 27

Pathos

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The emotional appeal

Question 28

Understatement (litote)

Answer 28

Saying something is not as much as it is

Question 29

Aporia

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an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory.
“the celebrated aporia whereby a Cretan declares all Cretans to be liars”

Question 30

Antithesis

Answer 30

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

Question 31

Apophasis

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the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony.

Question 32

Anadiplosis

Answer 32

“a doubling, folding up”) is the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause.[1] The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.[2]

Question 33

Paradox

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A contradiction

Question 34

Diction

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Word choice

Question 35

Imagery

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Using the 5 senses to breathe life into the text

Question 36

Theme

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The message from the novel/ work

Question 37

Tone

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The author’s

Question 38

Personification

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Giving human qualities to nonhuman thigns

Question 39

Mood

Answer 39

In literature, mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. Usually, mood is referred to as the atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates an emotional situation that surrounds the readers