Vocab Words Flashcards
Litotes
Understatement
Metonymy
Using a single feature of the subject to represent the whole
Antithesis
Opposite, contrast of ideas or words in balanced or parallel construction
Inversion
Inverted order of words in a sentence
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparison or contrasts
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning or successive phrases, clauses, or sentences
Antimetabole
Repetition of words in reverse order
Alliteration
Repetition I the same sound beginnings of several words in a sequence
Subordinating Conjunctions
A conjunction that introduces subordinate clauses such as:
IT, BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH, UNTIL
Coordinating Conjunction
A conjunction that connects two grammatical elements of identical construction (such as two dependent or independent clauses)
Appositive
A word or phase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Ex. The man, although highly educated, was lacking in wits.
Chiasmus
Two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of terms
ex. “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction.
Ambiguity
The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage
Epistrophe
Repitition of a concluding word or word endings
