Trimester 1
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| 11791628166 | Alusion | Brief and idirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political sugnifacance. Example: "Don't act like a Romeo in front of her." ... "Romeo" is a reference to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." | 0 | |
| 11791628167 | Aristotelian Appeals | Ethos: convincing an audience based on credibility of the persuader. Pathos: convincing an audience by creating an emotional response from the reader. Logos: convincing an audience using facts, statistics, and figures. | 1 | |
| 11791628168 | Amplification | Rhetorical device used to make a simple sentence less abrupt, giving further meanings by describing and repeating a certain statement or idea. Example: "Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London." | 2 | |
| 11791628169 | Analogy | Comparison between two different things in hopes of explaining something. Example: "Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer." | 3 | |
| 11791628170 | Anaphora | Deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence. Example: "Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better." | 4 | |
| 11792243455 | Antecedent | An earlier clause, phrase, or word to which a pronoun, noun, or another word refers. Example: "David plays football in the courtyard. All the children have gathered there." | 5 | |
| 11792243456 | Appositive | A noun or word followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it. Example: "John's friend, Michael, likes chocolate." ... John has other friends, but this refers to only Michael. | 6 | |
| 11792243457 | Assonance | Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds. Example: "Men sell the wedding bells." | 7 | |
| 11792243458 | Alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. Example: "A big bully beats a baby boy." | 8 | |
| 11792243459 | Cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds - primarily those of consonants - to achieve desired results. Example: "The nasal whine of power whips a new universe." | 9 | |
| 11792243460 | Chiasmus | Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures to produce an artistic effect. Example: "His time a moment, and a point his space." | 10 | |
| 11792243461 | Colloquial Diction | Informal language used in everyday speech. Example: "Hey dude, how's it hanging?" | 11 | |
| 11792243462 | Conceit | A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. Example: "My life is like a free online game, people seem to be playing with it." | 12 | |
| 11792463218 | Connotation | A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Example: "That women is so pushy!" ... Pushy refers to someone who is loud-mouthed, insisting, and irritating. | 13 | |
| 11793201063 | Consonance | Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. Example: "She ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year." | 14 | |
| 11793201064 | Euphemism | Polite, indirection expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite. Example: "Kick the bucket." ... To "kick the bucket" means to die. | 15 | |
| 11793201065 | Euphony | Use of words and phrases that are distinguish led as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. Example: "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." | 16 | |
| 11793201066 | Figurative Language | Figures of speech used to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. Example: "He has learned gymnastics, and is as agile as a monkey." (Simile) | 17 | |
| 11793201067 | Juxtaposition | Two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative, or poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. Example: "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night, like a rich jewel in an Ethiopia's ear." | 18 | |
| 11793201068 | Loose Sentence | Also known as a cumulative sentence. A main idea/clause is written first, short and to the point, and then subordinate ideas/additional elements are added to the sentence. Example: "He laughed uncontrollably, along with other family members, after the young children told jokes and sang silly songs." | 19 | |
| 11793201069 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else. Example: "England decides to keep check on immigration." ... England refers to the government. | 20 | |
| 11793201070 | Octave | A verse form that contains eight lines, which usually appear in an iambic pentameter. It can be any stanza in a poem that contains eight lines and follows a rhyme or unrhymed meter. | 21 | |
| 11793201071 | Onomatopoeia | A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. Example: "The books fell on the table with a loud thump." | 22 | |
| 11793201072 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. Example: "Paid volunteers were working." | 23 | |
| 11793201073 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly, but which may include a latent truth. Example: "I can resist anything but temptation." | 24 | |
| 11793201074 | Parallelism | The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same, or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Example: "Like father, like son." | 25 | |
| 11793201075 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence that has the main clause or predicate at the end. Example: "Presenting, the winner of seven Academy Awards and two Tony Awards, I present the starts of tonight's play, Herbert Smith." | 26 | |
| 11793201076 | Personification | Figure of speech in which a thing is given human attributes. Example: "The sky weeps." | 27 | |
| 11793201077 | Prose | A form of language that has no formal metrical structure. It applies a natural flow of speech, and ordinary grammatical structure, rather than rhythmic structure, such as in the case of tradition poetry. Example: "Some of the exports of Brazil are soybeans, sugar, orange juice, and iron ore." | 28 | |
| 11793201078 | Pun | A play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings. Example: "A horse is very stable." | 29 | |
| 11793201079 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked just for effect, or to lay emphasis on some point being discussed, when no real answer is expected. | 30 | |
| 11793201080 | Repetition | Repeats the same word or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. | 31 | |
| 11793201081 | Imagery | To use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. Example: "It was dark and dim in the forest." | 32 | |
| 11793201082 | Irony | Situational: something unexpected happens that both the characters, and audience, didn't expect. Dramatic: the reader knows something the characters do not. Verbal: what is said is different than what is meant. | 33 | |
| 11793201083 | Symbolism | The use of objects, actions, events, or words that signify ideas and qualities. | 34 | |
| 11793201084 | Synecdoche | Literary device in which part of something represents the whole, or it may use a while to represent a part. Example: The word "wheels" refers to a car. | 35 | |
| 11793201085 | Syntax | A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. Example: "What light from tinder window breaks?" ... Rather than, "What light breaks from yonder window." | 36 | |
| 11793201086 | Understatement | A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. | 37 | |
| 11793201087 | Voice | The form through which narrators tell their stories. | 38 | |
| 11793201088 | Theme | A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly. | 39 |
