some langauge stuuuf

Question 1

Apostrophe

Answer 1

Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A reference to a work of literature, film, etc.

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used

Question 4

Synecdoche

Answer 4

a figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole or the whole is used to designate a part.

Question 5

Alliteration

Answer 5

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.

Question 6

Litotes

Answer 6

A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite.

Question 7

Allegory

Answer 7

A work of literature in which characters, events, and items are directly symbolic of specific social figures, themes, ideas, etc.: Young Goodman Brown’s wife, Faith.

Question 8

Imagery

Answer 8

Writing that uses strong sensory detail.

Question 9

Conceit

Answer 9

A fanciful poetic image or metaphor that likens one thing to something else that is seemingly very different.

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

The repetition of specific phrases/ parallel syntax specifically used for dramatic or emphatic effect.

Question 11

Onomatopoeia

Answer 11

A figure of speech in which words imitate sounds.

Question 12

Antithesis

Answer 12

A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other.

Question 13

Connotation

Answer 13

Associations and implications beyond the literal definition of a word

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

A type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it. (ex: “the Crown”)

Question 15

Personification

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Giving a non-living thing human/ active qualities

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Archetype

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A recurring, universal character quality/ motif in literature

Question 17

Anachronistic

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A person or object out of date

Question 18

Epistolary

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A piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters

Question 19

Aphorism

Answer 19

A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. The writings of Benjamin Franklin contain many aphorisms, such as “Early to bed and early to rise/Make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

Question 20

Epitaph

Answer 20

A piece of writing in praise of a deceased person

Question 21

Expletive

Answer 21

A single word or short phrase intended to emphasize surrounding words. Commonly expletives are set off by commas. Examples: in fact, of course, after all, certainly

Question 22

Isocolon

Answer 22

Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length. For example, “An envious heart makes a treacherous ear” T9heir Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston).

Question 23

Colloquial

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Ordinary language, the vernacular. For example, depending on where in the United States you live, a sandwich is called a sub, a grinder, or a hero.

Question 24

Zeugma

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Grammatically correct linkage of one subject with two or more verbs or a verb with two or more direct objects. The linking shows a relationship between ideas more clearly.

Question 25

Chiasmus

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Figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second. “Has the Church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the Church?”-T. S. Eliot.

Question 26

Epigraph

Answer 26

Quote set at the beginning of a literary work or at its divisions to set the tone or suggest a theme.

Question 27

Anadiplosis

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Répetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause. For example, “The crime was common, common be the pain.” (Alexander Pope)

Question 28

Asyndeton

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The practice of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list, it gives a more extemporaneous effect and suggests the list may be incomplete. For He was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing.”

Question 29

Consonance

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The repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels, such as pitter-patter, splish-splash, and click-clack.

Question 30

understatement

Answer 30

we all know what an understatement is

Question 31

mock encomium

Answer 31

praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead

Question 32

grotesque

Answer 32

creating a tension between laughter and horror or revulsion; the essence of all “sick humor: or “black humor”

Question 33

comic juxtaposition

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inking together with no commentary items which normally do not go together; Pope’s line in Rape of the Lock: “Puffs, patches, bibles, and billet-doux”

Question 34

Strawman

Answer 34

arguing against a made up argument you made to make ur argument look better because ur bad at politics

Question 35

Red Herring

Answer 35

changing the subject because once again ur bad at politics. (the stupid emails from hiliary because trump doesnt want to talk about his stupid corrupt thing because he is bad)

Question 36

Ad Hominem

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acting like an 8 year old in a political argument

Question 37

Complex Question

Answer 37

any question that is designed in a way to presuppose an

answer. (ex nonne or the other one i forgot its latin dude you can only ask so much)(the only device thats a question)

Question 38

Populist/ Bandwagon appeal

Answer 38

making something seem like it achieves a common desire like health even though the product is complete garabage

Question 39

Anecdote

Answer 39

A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature