Vocab Flashcards
Paradox
Has a universal truth, but sounds absurd or contradictory
Situational irony
What you think will happen but the opposite happens
Shift
A change in mood or tone
Dramatic irony
The reader knows something the character doesn’t
Allegory
A story with a meaning behind it
Allusion
A reference to something without meaning
Paradox
Has a universal truth, but sounds obsurd or condradictory.
Synesthesia
Mix two senses together to describe something
Hyperbole
An exaggeration of something
Anaphora
Words that are repeated throughout the text, quotes
Apostrophe
Something that is mentioned but is not there
Conciet
A long extended metaphor
Hyperbole
An exaggeration of something
Euphemism
A more nicer way of saying something
Metonomy
Substitution of that word with a word close to that word
Antaclasis
The same word that is used two different ways in a sentence
Synecdoche
That substitute word is part of the other word
Epitet
A description that describes the quality of someone
Masculine rhyme
A single stressed syllable
Feminine rhyme
2 syllables, one unstressed
Ode
A poem that speaks to exaulting or and enthusiastic
Alimeric
A short humorous poem with 5 lines
Sestete
Has 6 lines
Juxtaposition
A contrast between when you place to concepts in close proximity
Pathos
Appeals to emotion
Logos
Appeals to logic
Ethics
Appeals to ethics
Injament
When the sentence finishes on another line
Asynetan
The ommission of conjunctions
Polysydenton
Stretching the Asyneton
Epitaph
The writing on a tomb
Elegy
A funeral song
Epistrophe
Repetition of words of succeeding clauses
Satire
Make something funny about something serious
Idyll
A peaceful calm setting
Scansion
To determine a meter of a poem by looking at lines and syllables
Ballad
A poem that tells a story, such as the night before Christmas
Cacophony
A harsh mixture of sounds
Caesura
A grammatical break
Epic
A hero
Ehiasmus
A phrase followed by the converse of the phrase
Verbal Irony
Sarcasim
Etymology
Origin of a word
Diction
Word choice
Similie
Using like or as
Metaphor
Comparison not using like or as
Rhetorical question
A question that asks itself
Foot
a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.”
Antithesis
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
Paralliesm
Similar sentence structure
Tomswifty
A pun
Iamb
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Iambic pentameter
Consists of 10 syllables
Anapest
consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable
Meter
basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry
Stanza
A certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme
Assonance
the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
consonance
agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.
Blank Verse
Blank verse is unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines.
Personification
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
