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vocab Flashcards

1
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HOMILY

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Serious talk that involves moral or spiritual advice.

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INFER

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to conclude from evidence.

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LOOSE SENTENCE

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A sentence in which the independent clause comes first.

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GENRE

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The major category in which a literary work fits.

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5
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EUPHEMISM

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A more acceptable way of saying something that causes discomfort.

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DICTION

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Author’s choice of words.

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ANALOGY

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Comparison between two different items.

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CHONOLOGICAL

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Arrange according to time order.

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CLAUSE

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A group of words that contains both a subject and a verb.

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AMBIGUITY

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Something whose meaning is uncertain.

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CONTRAST

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To show differences.

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12
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DENOTATION

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The literal or dictionary definition of a word.

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SARCASM

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bitter language intended to hurt a person or thing.

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SUBJECT COMPLEMENT

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The word or words that follow a linking verb.

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SOPHISTICATION

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Wisdom caused by world experience.

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NARRATIVE

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The telling of a story.

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METONOMY

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Figure of speech in which the name of an object is substituted for another closely associated.

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SYNESTHETIC

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Involving more than one sense.

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REPETITION

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Duplication of sounds, words, phrases, or grammatical patterns.

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PARADOX

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Statement that appears self contradictory.

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CONCEIT

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A comparison of two highly dissimilar .

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COMPARISON

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Statement of similarities.

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ANECDOTE

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A short account of an incident

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ANTECEDENT

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the word to which a pronoun occurs

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COLLOQUIAL

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Characteristic of ordinary rather than formal speech

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WIT

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Intellectual language that surprises and delights

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SATIRE

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Work that ridicules humans and social institutions

28
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SEMANTICS

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The meaning of a word or sentence.

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RHETORIC

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The art of using language effectively

30
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PARODY

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The imitation of a word intended to ridicule.

31
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PARALLELISM

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Repetition of a word phrases or sentence

32
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MOOD

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The emotion the reader feels

33
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DIATRIBE

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Bitter verbal attack

34
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HYPERBOLE

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An extreme exaggeration

35
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PERIODIC SENTENCE

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A sentence with the independent clause at the end.

36
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PREDICATE ADJECTIVE

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The adjective that follows a linking veb

37
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SYNECDOCHE

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A figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole thing.

38
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UNDERSTATEMENT

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the presentation of something as less important than it really is.

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