3.english(1st six weeks test)
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- antihesis
- is a figure of seech in which words or phrases that are parallel in order and syntax express oppoisite or contrasting meanings
- paradox
- occurs when elements of statement seems to contadict each other
- anaphora
- repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses
- paradox
- A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
- epanalepsis
- repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurs at the beginning of the clause; tends to make the sentence or clause in which it occurs stand apart from its surroundings (Breakfast was over, and none had breakfasted)
- oxymoron
- apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another
- litotes
- is a figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite
- symbol
- is an object, action, or event that repesents somethign or creates a range of assoiations, beyond itself
- polysyndeton
- Deliberate use of many conjunctions creating a flowing senctec pattern
- antithesis
- Direct contrast; opposition
- diction
- the choice of vocabulary and of sentence structure; the words you use
- antimetabole
- Repitition of words in succussive clauses in reverse grammatical order
- epistrophe
- repetition of same word at ends of successive clauses
- asynodenton
- is the delibrat use of leaving out of conjunctions
- allusion
- a refrance to a mythologicL LITERARY or historical person, place or thing
- simile
- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')