Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
19 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Allegory
|
A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical event
|
|
|
Aphorism
|
A short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea
|
|
|
Chiasmus |
An inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases
|
|
|
Denotation |
The meaning of a word or phrase
|
|
|
Syntactical Ambiguity |
A situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure.
|
|
|
Apostrophe |
The addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically
|
|
|
Asyndeton |
Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses
|
|
|
Colloquialism |
A word or phrase that is used mostly in informal speech
|
|
|
Diction |
The clearness of a person's speech or the way in which words are used in a speech or writing
|
|
|
Anaphora |
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
|
|
|
Archetype |
The original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies
|
|
|
Consonance |
Harmony or agreement among components
|
|
|
Double Entendre |
A word or expression that can be understood in two different ways
|
|
|
Anecdote |
A short story about an interesting or funny event or occurrence
|
|
|
Cliche |
A phrase or expression that has been used so often that it is no longer interesting or original
|
|
|
Antithesis
|
Opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction
|
|
|
Analogy |
A comparison between to seemingly dissimilar things
|
|
|
Connotation |
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |
|
|
Kenning
|
A metaphorical compound word or phrase
|
