Maps Vocabulary Flash Cards

Front 1

Aphorism

Back 1

A tense saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
POS- Noun
Ex-Contrary to the popular pirate aphorism, the dead do tell tales.

Front 2

Assonance

Back 2

Resemblance of sounds
POS-Noun
Ex-The goal for this instance is to maximize the consonance and assonance of adjacent consonants and vowels, respectively.

Front 3

Consanance

Back 3

Accord or agreement
POS-Noun
Ex-Surrounding developments must be well maintained and in consonance with a professional image.

Front 4

Contrast

Back 4

To compare in order to show unlikeness or differences.
POS-Verb
Ex-After all students have presented their reports, have students compare and contrast information.

Front 5

First Person

Back 5

The grammatical person used by a speaker in statements refering to himself or herself or to a group including himself or herself, as "I" and "we" in English.
POS-Noun
Ex-I saw you. "I" is first person.

Front 6

Form

Back 6

External appearance of a clearly defined area as distinguished from color or material.
POS-Noun
Ex-The acids function as a kind of alphabet, spelling out the form and function of the protein.

Front 7

Homophone

Back 7

A word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning whether spelled the same way or not, as "heir" and "air."
POS-Noun
Ex-Clearly this student has not yet mastered homophones, or maybe he just didn't know how to spell.

Front 8

Journalism

Back 8

The occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
POS-Noun
Ex-There are many different types of Journalism.

Front 9

Literature

Back 9

Writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
POS-Noun
Ex-Types of literature- poems, novels, history, biography, and essays.

Front 10

Quotation

Back 10

Something that is quoted, passage from book, speech, etc.
POS-Noun
Ex-No need for the quotation marks when you think about it.

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Second Person

Back 11

The person used by the speaker in referring to the ones to whom he or she is speaking.
POS-Noun
Ex-He said no. "He" is second person.

Front 12

Sonnet

Back 12

A very long speech.
POS-Noun
Ex-The Gettysburg Address is not a sonnet.

Front 13

Symbolism

Back 13

The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
POS-Noun
Ex-The void's symbolism, it seems, was apparently too much for the authorities.

Front 14

Table

Back 14

Table of contents
POS-Noun
Ex-Every textbook has a table.

Front 15

Tale

Back 15

A narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case.
POS-Noun
Ex-The structure of the story was always that of a fairy tale.

Front 16

Term

Back 16

A word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
POS-Noun
Ex-That term was very hard to understand.