Week 2 English Comp Vocab Test

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Chiasmus

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a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.”.

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Circumlocution

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a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.

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Conflict

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to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash:

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Connotation

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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is“a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”.

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Consonance

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the correspondence of consonants, especially those at the end of a word, in a passage of proseor verse.

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Denotation

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a word that names or signifies something specific:

“Wind” is the denotation for air in natural motion.

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Deus ex Machina

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any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.

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Diction

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style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words:

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Doppelganger

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a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.

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Ekphrastic

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a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning.

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Epilogue

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a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.

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Epithet

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an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

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Euphemism

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a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

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Euphony

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the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.

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Faulty Parallelism

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is the lack of parallel structure—it creates sentences without a sense of balance. Readers expect parallel word structures especially when there is some underlying parallelism of meaning.

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Flashback

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a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. "in a series of flashbacks, we follow the pair through their teenage years"

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Foil

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to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk

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Foreshadowing

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to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure:

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Hubris

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excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.

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Hyperbaton

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the use, especially for emphasis, of a word orderother than the expected or usual one, as in “Birdthou never wert.”.

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hyperbole

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obvious and intentional exaggeration.

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Imagery

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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively:

the dim imagery of a dream.

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Internal Rhyme

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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.

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Inversion

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any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as “When will you go?”and “How beautiful is the rose!”.