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
Synecdoche
One uses a part to represent the whole
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Denotation
The literal meaning of a word
Zeugma
A construction in which one word modifies or governs two or more words in a sentence
Connotation
Not a dictionary definition
Syllogism
A form if deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major & minor premise. The conclusion is only valid if both premises are valid
Anaphora
The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns
Satire
An ironic, sarcastic or writing composition
Parallelism
The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases etc. to give structural similarity
