Part I Flashcards
Alliteration
Deliberate repetition of sounds
Anaphora
Repetition of words or phrases
Anastrophe
Reversal of normal word order
Apostrophe
Address to some person or thing not present
Assonance
Repetition of vowel or syllable sounds in successive words
Asyndeton
Omission of conjunctions
Chiasmus
Arrangement of words in an oppositional, ABBA order
Diaeresis
A pause between words coinciding with the end of a metrical foot
Diastole
Lengthening of an ordinarily short vowel
Ellipsis
Omission of one or more words necessary to the sense of a sentence
Enjambement
Delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence to the beginning of the following verse
Hendiadys
Use of two words connected by a conjunction instead of one modified noun
Interlocked Word Order
Arrangement of of related pairs of words in an ABAB pattern
Irony
The use of language with a meaning opposite of that suggested by context
Litotes
Deliberate understatement that describes one quality by denying its opposite
Metonymy
A type of imagery in which one word, generally a noun, is employed to suggest another with which it is closely related
Polysyndeton
Use of greater number of conjunction than usual
Prolepsis
Attribution of some characteristic to a person or thing before it is logically appropriate
Synecdoche
A type of metonymy in which a part is named in place of an entire object
Systole
Shortening of an ordinarily long vowel
Tmesis
Separation of a compound into its constituent parts
Transferred Epithet
Application of an adjective to one noun when it properly applies to another
Zeugma
Use of a single word with a pair of others when it logically applies to only one or applies to both differently
