Night Vocab Flashcards
Asyndeton
Absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
Ex: Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom! - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Polysyndeton
Conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick session
“The dinner was so good; I ate the chicken, and the salad, and the turkey, and the wild rice, and the bread, and the mashed potatoes, and the cranberry sauce.”
Anaphora
Writer repeats the same word or words at the beginnings successive phrase
Ex: The party was over and that upset everybody. (The party was over)
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places
Periodic sentences
The writer places the main idea at the end of the sentence
Ex: Presenting, the winner of seven Academy Awards and two Tony Awards, I present the star of tonight’s play, Herbert Smith
Connotations
Feeling that a word invokes
Jargon
Special words or expressions used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand
Ex: Code Eleven - A code that means the individual is at the scene of the crime
Abstract
The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events
Colloquial
(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary. Similar to slang
Ex: buzz off, going bananas, gonna, wanna
Telegraphic sentence
Contains 5 words or less
Dialect
a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
Metaphor
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Idiom
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light
Hyperbole
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Memoir
1.
a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.
