Test 3 Cumalitive Flashcards
Apostrophe
Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary or to an object or abstract idea
Ambiguity
The tendency of a poem to have a multiplicity of meanings
Erotema
Rhetorical question
Conceit
A metaphor that extends beyond one mention
Metonymy
A type of metaphor in which a common association replaces the thing itself
Synecdoche
A type of metaphor in which a part is used to represent a whole or subcategory to represent a category or vice versa
Anthimeria
The use of a word in a part of speech that is different from its common use
Meiosis
Diction used to de emphasize or to make sound better
Auxesis
Diction used to emphasize or make sound worse
Anastrophe
Reversing the usual order of words for effect
Antithesis
a structure of speech in which words with opposite meanings are balanced against each other
Stichomythia
Verbal fencing between characters with brief line for line parallel structures
Anaphora
Repetition of words at the beginning of a group of clauses or phrases
Epistrophe
Repetition of words at the end of a group of clauses or phrases
Asyndeton
The deliberate leaving out of conjunctions
Polysyndeton
The deliberate use of many conjunctions
Parenthesis
Inserting words that interrupt the normal flow of a sentence
Apposition
Placing information in parenthesis after a noun to describe it
Periphrasis
Use of a proper noun in place of a common noun or concept or vice versa
Epanalepsis
Repetition of a word in the first and last position of a phrase or clause
Ellipsis
Leaving out words that are understood to exist by the reader
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next
Antimetabole
Repetition of words in two clauses but in reverse order
Polyptoton
Repetition of words derived from the same root
