Language Analysis Flashcards
Onomatopoeia
Where a word actually looks or sounds like the sound it is intended to make.
Personification
The attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas.
Alliteration
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in multiple words in a single line, sentence or phrase
Metaphor
Saying a word is something else
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration specifically for literacy or rhetorical effect.
Oxymoron
Combined two contradictory words with opposite meanings
Rhetorical questions
A figured of speech in which a question is asked for a reason other than to get an answer.
Imagery
Uses a vivid description that appeals to a readers senses to create an imagine or idea in their head
Opinion
A belief not based on absolute certainty or positive knowledge but on what seems true, valid, or probable to one’s own mind
Allusion
An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text
Anaphora
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line of a poem, speech or sermon
Catatonic reference
A word in a text that refers to another later in the text and you need to look forward to understand
Semantic field
A group of words or expressions that are related in meaning
Graphology
The study of graphemes and other features associated with the written medium, such as punctuation, paragraphing or spacing
Mode
A particular form or variety of something
Audience
The assembled spectators or listeners
Field
Subject matter of the text
Mixtape
A purpose or duty or the way something works
Juxtaposition
The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
Connotes
Imply or suggest
Hypophora
A figure of speech in which a speaker poses a question and answers it
Auxiliary verb
Used along with a main verb to express tense, mood or voice
Eye dialect
A writers use of deliberately nonstandard spelling
