Syntax
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- Allusion
- An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand
- Anachronism
- Ane vent, object, custom, person or thing that is out of its natural order of time.
- Analogy
- A comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar
- Aphorism
- A teerse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim
- Apostrophe
- A rhetorical device in which the person address a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction
- Cliche
- An expression that has been used so often it has lost its freshness
- Ephigram
- A terse, witty, pointed saying
- Euphemism
- The substitution of a mild term for one more offensive or hurtful
- Figurative language
- Languge that contains figures of speech such as metaphor simile, personification, ect
- Hyperbole
- Exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant litereally
- Kenning
- A metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun
- Litotes
- A figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement
- Malapropism
- The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but quite different in meaning
- Metaphor
- the most important and widespread figure of speech in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two
- Extended Metaphor
- An idea sustained throughout the work
- Dead Metaphor
- One taht has been used so much it has lost its figurative meaning and is taken literally
- Mixed Metaphor
- A combination of two or more inconsistent metaphors ina single expression
- Metonymy
- A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea.
- Onomatopoeia
- the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to
- Oxymoron
- A figure of speech in which 2 contradictory terms are combined in a single expression
- Personification
- The technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human
- Proverb
- A short saying that expresses some commonplace truth or bit of folk wisdom
- Pun
- A form of wit involving a play on a word with two or more meanings
- Simile
- A less direct metaphor
- Syllogism
- TWo premise and a conclusion
- Synaestheia
- a despriction of one kind of sensation in terms of another
- Synecdoche
- Figure of speech utilizes a part as representative of the whole
- Tautology
- repetition of an idea
- Understatement
- Verbal irony in whcih something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is
- Anaphora
- The regular repetition of the same word or phrase
- Anastrophe
- Rhetorical term for the inversion of the normal order of the parts of a sentence
- Antecedent
- Word to which a pronoun refers
- Antithesis
- Figure of speech in whichj opposing or contrasting ideas are balenced against each other using a grammtically parallel syntax
- Asyndenton
- Conjunctions are omitted, producing a face-paced and rapid prose
- Chaismus
- First clause or phrase is reversed in the second
- Clause
- Words w/ subject, verb
- Gerund
- Noun formed from a verb
- Imperative
- Command
- Inversion
- Reverse SVC
- Loose sentence
- A car bent over him just as he tied his shoelace
- Paradox
- Self-Contradictory
- Periodic sentences
- Main idea last
- Olysndenton
- Opposite of asndeton
- Rhetorical question
- no answer needed