Terms : Hide Images
| 12029212558 | Personification | The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. An example: Wordsworth's "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon." | 0 | |
| 12029212559 | Antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by phrase, clause, or paragraphs. "To be or not to be . . ." "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times . . ." "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country . . ." | 1 | |
| 12029212560 | Oxymoron | From the Greek for "pointedly foolish," ___ is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms. Simple examples include "jumbo shrimp" and "cruel kindness." | 2 | |
| 12029212561 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 3 | |
| 12029212562 | Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | 4 | |
| 12029212563 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Usually, __ is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, the __ may be directly stated, especially in expository or argumentative writing. | 5 | |
| 12029212564 | Onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum. | 6 | |
| 12029212565 | Metaphor | a direct comparison between dissimilar things. "Your eyes are stars" is an example. | 7 | |
| 12029212566 | Symbol | generally, anything that represents, stands for, something else. Usually, a ___ is something concrete—such as an object, action, character, or scene—that represents something more abstract. | 8 | |
| 12029212568 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. On a physical level, __ uses terms related to the five senses; we refer to visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory. For example, a rose may present visual __ while also representing the color in a woman's cheeks. | 9 | |
| 12029212569 | Irony | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. The difference between what appears to be and what actually is true. This can have several forms: situational, verbal, dramatic. | 10 | |
| 12029212570 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." | 11 | |
| 12029212572 | Situational Irony | a type of irony in which events turn out the opposite of what was expected. | 12 | |
| 12029212573 | Pathos | an appeal based on emotion. | 13 | |
| 12029212574 | Logos | an appeal based on logic or reason | 14 | |
| 12029212575 | Verbal Irony | In this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning | 15 | |
| 12029212577 | Denotation | the literal or dictionary meaning of a word | 16 | |
| 12029212578 | Dramatic Irony | In this type of irony, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work | 17 | |
| 12029212579 | Connotation | the interpretive level or a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning. | 18 | |
| 12029212580 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 19 | |
| 12029212586 | Parallelism | refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 20 | |
| 12029212603 | Diction | the author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning | 21 |
