English Vocab - BASIS
Terms
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- Preposition
- words that indecate location (In the bush)
- Pleonasm
- Redundancy: use of words to emphasize what is clear without them
- Effectio
- A head-to-toe inventory of a persons physical charms
- Euphuism
- Elabortely patterned prose style characterized by extensive use of simile and illustration, balanced constructions, alliteration, and antithesis
- Epicrisis
- Circumstance in which a speaker quotes a passage and comments on it
- Accumulation
- Figure of speech in which a speaker or writer gathers scattered points and lists them togeather
- Enargia
- A visually powerful description that vividly recreats something in words
- Epexegesis
- Adding words or phrases to further clarify a statement already made
- Gerund
- ing word is Subject (I Love Swiming)
- Commoratio
- Repetition of a point several times in different words
- Infentive
- to + simple form of the verb (to smash a spider)
- Appositive
- noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it (Scott, a boy)
- Epiphora
- Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a successive clauses or verses
- Alliteration
- Repetition of initial consonant sound
- Attic Style
- Brief, witty, sometimes epigrammatic style
- Antithesis
- Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in ballenced phrases
- Personification
- A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities
- Simile
- A stated comparison usually using like or as between unlike things
- Paralipsis
- Emphasing a point by seeming to pass over it
- Copia
- Expansive richness as a stylistic goal
- Epimone
- Frequent repetition of the same plea in similar phrases or questions; dwelling on a point
- Paraphrase
- A restatment of a text or passage in another form or other words
- Adjective Clause
- who, whom, whose, that, which, when, where, or why
- Absolute
- made of nouns or pronouns followed by a participle and any modifiers of the noun or pronoun (His mother standing in the door way)
- Distinctio
- Explicit references to various meanings of a word
- Metaphor
- An implied comparison between two unlike things
- Synecdoche
- A figure of speech in which a part is used to rep the whole
- Participle
- present = ing (jumping) past = ed (jumped)
- Adverb Clause
- answers one of these three adverb questions: How? When? or Why?
- Parenthesis
- Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the flow of the sentence
- Chiasmus
- Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrase or clauses
- Apposition
- Placing side by side two coordinate elements the second serves as an explanation of the first
- Asiatic Style
- A prolix or highly ornamented style
- Amplification
- The ways an argument, explanation, or description can be expanded and enriched
- Auxesis
- A gradual increase in intensity of meaning in order from least to best
- Synathroesmus
- The piling up of adjectives, often in the spirit of invective
- Antimetabole
- Repetition of words in reverse grammatical order / type of Chiasmus
- Metonymy
- A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
- Apostrophe
- Mark of punctuation used to indicate possessive case or omission of a letter from a word / Rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, and inanimate object, or a nonexistent character
- Anaphora
- Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a successive clauses or verses