Words 11-20 Flashcards
Coherence
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Aphorism
Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream
Apostrophe
“O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Cacophony
His fingers rapped and pounded the door, and his foot thumped against the yellowing wood.
Connotation-Denotation
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Enumeration
“Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South. Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to education of head, hand, and heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories.”
Analogy
In the same way as one cannot have the rainbow without the rain, one cannot achieve success and riches without hard work.
Parallelism
no pain, no gain
today a reader, tomorrow a leader
fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
you get what you get
Allusion
His smile is like kryptonite to me
Today might be the Ides of March
Metonmy
Im glad the oval office waited on new taxes