List 2 Flashcards
Didactic
Term used to describe a fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.
- Just Mercy, Memoir
Adage
Proverb or wise saying
-Reap what you sow
Allegory
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
-Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
Aphorism
A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle.
- Sentence summary of authors POV
- usually longer
- Quotes from Poor Richard’s Almanac
Ellipsis
in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
- “vertically challenged”
Analogy
Comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
- “America is to the world as the hippo is to the jungle”
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
-“my mother will kill me if i am late”
Idiom
A common, often used expression that doesn’t make sense if you take it literally
-“I got chewed out by my coach”
Metaphor
Comparison not using “like” or “as”
- “My feet are popsicles”
Metonymy
Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept
- “I could not understand his tongue”
Synecdoche
when a whole is represented by naming one of his parts
- “Check out my new wheels”
- “Sails” –> “Ship”
Simile
Comparison using “like” or “as”
Synesthesia
Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another
- “A purplish scent filled the room”
Personification
Giving human like qualities to something that is not human
- “the tired old truck groaned as it inched up the hill”
