Fancy words Flashcards
a description of time
chronography
a word that can mean one thing and its opposite
auto-antonym / contranym
syntactic invesion or disorder
hyperbaton
a sentence that is too short and missing words, thus ambiguous
brachylogy
the world of a work of fiction
the diegesis
transfer of an adjective to a noun it should not refer to
hypallage
using coordination instead of subordination
hendiadys
using singular for plural, past for present
enallage
retoucher corrective
epanorthosis
words that sound or look alike
paronomasia
using two meanings of a word at the same time
syllepsis
when a word is repeated but the meaning changes
antanaclasis
endowing an abstract thing/animal/dead person with words
prosopopea
repetition with nothing in between
epizeuxis
a disorder in chronology
hysteron proteron
when a character turn what to him are people into characters of a play/puppets
mythocratic metalepsis
story of causes
etiological story
when the narrator or author breaks the frame and addresses the reader
rhetorical metalepsis
interruption due to a strong emotion or reluctance
aposiopesis
absence of coordination
asyndeton
juxtaposition of clauses
parataxis
disruption in the syntax of a sentence between its logical beginning and ending
tmesis
using other people’s words to discredit them
polyphonic irony
highly visual description
hypotyposis
