English Vocab Test
Terms
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Allegory
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A representation of an Abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material form
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Anachronism
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Something or Someone out of Correst historical or chornological time
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Satire
- The use of irony, sarcasm, to ridicule or poke fun at folly, vice
- Alliteration
- The commencement of two or more words with same Beggining letter, Ex. molly makes muffins mondays
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Allusion
- A casual reference; an incedential meaning either directly r by implicating, an allusion to shakespere
- Analogy
- A similarity between like features of two things on which comparison can be based, between heart and pump
- Anaphora
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Repition of a word or words begining of two or more sucessive verses, clauses or sentences
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Anecdote
- A short personal account of a particular incident or event of an interesting nature
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Aphorism
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A verse embodying a general truth or astute observation
- principle
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proffesional or accepted rule of action or conduct
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Doctrine
- a particular principle, posittion, or policy taught or advocated as of a religious or government
- Apostrophe
- to address someone not present, personified object
- Argumentation
- the development or presenting of an arguement
- Assonance
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Repitition of vowel sounds
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consonance
- coorespondance of consonants
- Caophony
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Harsh discordance of sound, opposite of eupohony
- euphony
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Agreeableness in sound, pleasant to the ear
- dissonant
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discordant, harsh to ear, out of harmony
- Colloquialism
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informal speech, familiar conversation
- Coherance
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overall sense of understadability, logical interconnection
- Conundrum
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A riddle, answer usually involving a pun ex. what is black and whiter and read all over? a newspaper
- Pun
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the humerous use of words as to suggsst a different meaning or application, play on words
- paradox
- a statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth, an apparent contradictory nature
- connotation
- Word association, set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and the rande of objects to which it can be applied