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;
20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Consonance |
agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions |
|
|
Metaphor |
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
|
|
Paradox |
a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
|
|
Personification |
the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions |
|
|
Pun |
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words |
|
|
Apostrophe |
Addressing an inanimate or dead object |
|
|
Allusion |
the making of a casual or indirect reference to something |
|
|
Oxymoron |
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” |
|
|
Capping |
Clever trade of insults |
|
|
Malapropism |
an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound |
|
|
Invocation |
the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication |
|
|
Aside |
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard byothers on the stage and intended only for the audience |
|
|
Soliloquy |
the act of talking while or as if alone |
|
|
Anastrophe |
inversion of the usual order of words |
|
|
Assonance |
Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence |
|
|
Prose |
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse |
|
|
Blank Verse |
unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter mostfrequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse |
|
|
Couplet |
a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme andare of the same length |
|
|
Anaphora |
repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences |
|
|
Sonnet |
a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought,idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, withrhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, beingin the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (theoctave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in acommon English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet |
