LP 3 Flashcards
abate
v
decrease, become less in amout/intensity
by adding more lanes on the highway we can abate the trafic congestion in atl
arcane
adj
secretive, myserious, few know
he was the only one to know about the arcane details of the breakup
burgeon
v
grow or expand rapidly
castigate
v
criticize severly
dauntless
adj
bold/fearless
dilemma
n
a difficult problem
egalitarian
adj
believing in the principle that all people are ewual and deserve equal rights and oppirtunies
egalitariant government/leader
sinister
adj
evil
sophistry
the use of fallacious arguments
solphist=someone who uses
noun
spurn
verb
reject disdainfully
noun
scornful rejection
irreverent
adj
showing lack of respect
cantankerous
adj
irritable
parrallelism
same structure
polysyndeton
lots of conjunction
metabasis
sum up what you just send thwen inreoduce next topic
you have heard this now hear this
procatalepsis
anticipates and objection that might be raised and anwsers it
you may think blah but the anwser is blah
hypophora
ask question then anwser
hyperbole
over dramatacize
i could sleep forever
litotes
anwsering a question by saying what its not or denying the opposite
your essay topic was not great
metonymy
substitue of a word with closly related topic
pledge loyalty t crown
dish
metaphor
SHE IS THE SUN
personification
the waves dance
onomatopoeia
pow bam boom
periodic sentence
main clause at the end of stence (prep phrases ans stuff before) in the middle of the night, under the stars, thinking about life, we cried.
non periodic
regular main clause at beggining
adjectival clause
start with RP
that which who whome whose
the girl who is pretty told the teacher she was ugly
adverbial
start with sc
when i was younger, blah
noun dependent clause
clause acts like a noun in sentence
what you watch will effect you.
his mistake was that he lied.
that or what
independent clause
regular setec3