Terms #1 Flashcards
The direct or exact opposite; may also be a contrast within parallel phrases. Can also refer to characters not necessarily antagonists, represent opposite personal characteristics or moral views
Antithesis
A repetition of a word or words at the beginning of 2 or more successive clauses.
Anaphora
Special images or symbols that appeal to the total racial or cultural understanding of people
Archetype
Absence of conjunctions in a series of sentences
Asyndeton
This is the reversal of grammatical order from one phrase to the next
Chiasmus
An expression that has 2 meanings, 1 of which is usually risqué; unsavory
Double-entendre
Placing one item next to another one in order to understand both items better
Juxtaposition
This is the strategy of understatement often employed to provide subtle emphasis, frequently for ironic effect or to underline a passionate opinion
Litotes
A figure of speech involving the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
Metonymy
Essay is any series of components that can be detected as a pattern. A detail, idea, or image can be elaborated upon or designed to form a pattern in the essay
Motif
Close imitation of style, usually exaggerating features of the model for comedic effect
Parody
A figure of speech that attributes human emotion to inanimate objects, nature, or animals:
Pathetic fallacy
Insertion of conjunctions before each word in a list
Polysysndeton
Divergent use of a word in two phrases
Syllepsis
A figure of speech involving the substitution of a part for a whole
Synecdoche
The figurative use of one sensory description in the depiction of another
Synesthesia
The part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the arrangement of words in sentences establishing their necessary relations in order to convey intended meaning
Syntax
A writers distinctive use of language
Voice
The use of language that surprises and delights; it may involve particularly perceptive, humorous, or ingenious thoughts expressed through great verbal power
Wit
A figure of speech in which one word, usually a verb, applies to at least to other words, usually nouns (one of which is concrete, the other abstract) in two different ways
Zeugma
