Unit 3 vocab Flashcards
Epistolary
a piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters
expletive
A single word or a short phrase intended to emphasize surrounding words. Commonly set off by commas. What examples: in fact, of course, after all, certainly,
isocolon
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”
zeugma
Grammatically correct language of one subject with two or more verb or verb with two or more direct objects. The linking shows the relationship between ideas more clearly. “she opened her door and her heart to the orphan”
chiasmus
Your speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel causes is reversed in a second. “has the church failed mankind or has mankind failed the church”
anecdote
Brief story or tale told by character in a piece of literature
aphorism
A concise statement designed to make appointment illustrate a commonly held belief. The writings of Benjamin Franklin contain many of them such as “early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”
epitaph
A piece of writing in praise of a deceased person
colloquial
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
epigraph
A quote set at the beginning of a literary work or at its divisions to set the tone or suggest a theme
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next class. For example, “the crime was common, common be the pain”
asyndeton
The practice of emitting conjugations between words phrases or clauses. In a list, it gives more extemporaneous affect and suggest a list may be incomplete. For example, he was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing
consonance
The repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening bells, such as pitter patter Splish splash and click clack
