vocab 2 setnences match Flashcards
Zoie the cunning prodigy of all time
Epithet
In a store, the mother was looking for her child when she spotted her child by the stand filled with delicate products. Just as she rushed over to her child, a clerk had already approached the toddler to move him away from the stand. The mother rushed over to quickly pick up her child and replied with an apologetic smile, “He’s just so curious.”
That phrase was used rather than focusing on how the child could’ve broken something or being too nosy that can be seen as a negative trait.
Euphemism
The sky is blended nicely to is evening/ it was brushed with the birth of shades/ but soon was tainted/ to where the waters met the horizons/ while the sun sunk beneath it/slivers of rays left the village/ welcoming the slivers of the night
Conceit
The School issued a new policy.
Metonymy/ Synecdoche:
Quiet Quinn has a quick quirky question.
Alliteration
The winds whooshed into the empty halls of HPHS as books fell with a thud.
Onomatopoeia
Student A from period 1 has already taken the exam. However, student B hasn’t and has barely even started studying, so she begins to panic as her test is next period. In an attempt to comfort her, student A says, “Calm down, it’s not the end of the world. Study as much as possible now, and don’t sweat the smaller units. You will do better on the next one.”
Cliché
I am awry upon a violent sea, thrown against the tsunamis to take me to my fate. A day here, a day there when will there be alas a break?
Histrionic language
Time is a sculptor that shapes who we are in the present.
Aphorism
She is bold. She is firm. She is capable.
Anaphora
If you hear nothing, if you see nothing, then it’s nothing.
Epistrophe
Both Katniss Everdeen from the “Hunger Games” and Hermione Granger from “Harry Potter” embody the ____ of a rebel that goes against the status quo or the authority in charge.
Archetype
