Parts of Speech/ Literary Terms Flashcards
Alliteration
The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound
Articles
A an the
Allusion
A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing
Adjective
Modifies a noun, adjective, adverb
Antithesis
A direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast
Magic conjunction word
Fanboys
Assonance
The repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words
Consonance
The reporting of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect
Difference between alliteration and consonance
Consonance is throughout the word and alliteration is at the beggining of the words
Example of alliteration
The twisting trout twinkled below
Allusion example
He met his Waterloo
Action verb example
Jumping
Antithesis example
Sink or swim
Apostrophe
A form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as If present and the inanimate, as if animate
Apostrophe example
Milton! Thou shoulds’t be living at this hour
Assonance example
Cry and side
Consonance example
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds
Noun
Person place or thing
Verb
Expresses action or being
Verb being examples
Is are was were am
Prepositional phrases examples
Over the sky, in my eye
What two things do prepositional phrases have
Object noun and preposition
Pronouns
He she it they is them
Adverb
Modifies a verb; usually ends in -ly
