Vocab 6 Flashcards
Elipses
Omission of words…
Hyperbole
Deliberate overstatement or exaggeration
Litote
Figure of speech where a writer understates a point or state it in the negative.
Irony
Words that are ment to contradict they’re actual literal meaning
Oxymoron
Words that are placed right next to each other for the purpose of contradicting each other.
Zeugma
A figure in which a word applies to two other words appealing to two different senses.
My dog wandered into my neighborhood and into my life
Anti-metabole
A phrase or a sentence is repeated but in reverse order
Anadeolosis
The repetition of the last word in a phrase clause or sentence as the first word in the next phrase clause or sentence.
Metanomy
Substituting an attribute or part of the thing that is referred to.
The pen is mightier then the sword. Pen > writing. Sword > military
Epanalepsis
Repetition of a word at the beginning and end of the same phrase, clause, or sentence
Chiasmus
Words, grammatical constructions, or ideas are repeated in reverse order.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
Synechdote
The part the represent the whole.
Pun
A play on words.
Personification
Attribution of human qualities to something non human.
