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| 5895181070 | antanaclasis | (ant-ann-uh-CLASS-iss) (noun) Def: repetition of a word in two different senses. Schultz Example: If we don't hang together, we will hang separately. My example: I have yet to sleep, but my ideas and thoughts just keep coming and coming. Antanaclasis in Spanish is antanaclase | 0 | |
| 5895183629 | anticipated objection | (adjective + noun) Def: the technique an author uses in a text to address and answer objections, even though the audience has not had the opportunity to voice these objections Schultz Example: "You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air...You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory." (Winston Churchill) My example: I don't think you would like my ideas so I simply won't give you one anticipated objection in Spanish is objeción anticipada | 1 | |
| 5895185008 | antimetabole | (ann-ty-meh-TAB-boh-lee) (noun) Def: the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse order Shultz Example: One should eat to live, not live to eat My Example: I go where I please, and I please where I go antimetabole in Spanish is antimetabole | 2 | |
| 5895185009 | apologist | (uh-PAHL-uh-jist) (noun) Def: a person or character who makes a case for a controversial position Schultz Example: In "Julius Caesar", Antony argued that Caesar intended for Rome to remain a republic rather than have a king. My Example: On the contrary, as a thousand passages in the earlier apologists attest, they viewed the pagan mysteries with horror and detestation. apologist in Spanish is apologista | 3 | |
| 5895186643 | understatement | (UN-der-stayt-mint) (noun) Def: deliberately expressing an idea as less important than it is, often to be ironic or polite Schultz Example: The 1906 earthquake disrupted business somewhat in downtown San Francisco. My Example: the stake that was at risk was quite the understatement Understatement in Spanish is atenuación | 4 | |
| 5895188849 | apostrophe | (uh-PAHSS-truh-fee) (noun) Def: the direct address of an absent person, as if he or she is able to reply. Schultz Example: "Romeo! O Romeo! Wherefore art thou, Romeo?"(Shakespeare) My example: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." (shakespeare) Apostrophe in Spanish is apóstrofe | 5 | |
| 5895188850 | asyndeton | (uh-SIN-dit-ton) (noun) Def: the deliberate omission of conjunctions for rhetorical effect Schultz Example: "This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely." (Aristotle) My Example: "An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Asyndeton in Spanish is asíndeton | 6 | |
| 5895191354 | polysyndeton | (PAHL-lee-sin-duh-tin) (noun) Def: the deliberate adding of more conjunctions than necessary for effect Schultz Example: We have not power, nor influence, nor money, nor authority. My Example: "I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right,' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water." (Ernest Hemingway, After the Storm) Polysyndeton in Spanish is polisíndeton | 7 | |
| 5895191355 | connotation | (con-noh-TAY-shun) (noun) Def: the implied meaning of the word, as opposed to the dictionary meaning Schultz Example: Though "home" technically means "where one resides", it suggests feelings of comfort and security. My Example: "She is all states, and all princes, I." Connotation in Spanish is connotación | 8 | |
| 5895193246 | effect | (ee-FECKED) (noun) Def: the emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader Schultz Example: The novel The Grapes of Wrath causes its readers to feel sympathy for migrant workers. My Example: the story had a huge impact on how I perseved things in the real world. Effect in Spanish is efecto | 9 | |
| 5895194327 | epanalepsis | (ee-pan-uh-LEP-siss) (noun) Def: repetition of a word at the beginning and end of a clause Schultz Example: Blood hath brought blood. My Example: "A minimum wage that is not a livable wage can never be a minimum wage." epanalepsis in Spanish is epanadiplosis | 10 | |
| 5895196228 | epithet | (EP-pit-thet) (noun) Def: a word or phrase adding a characteristic after a person's name Schultz Example: Catherine the Great, Ivan the Terrible My Example: "The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering bright the air, Eddying, dizzying, closing round, With soft and drunken laughter..." ( Beauty and Beauty) Epithet in Spanish is epíteto | 11 | |
| 5895196229 | pace | (noun) Def: the speed at which the author moves the plot forward Schultz Example: Nathaniel Hawthorne paces The Scarlet Letter somewhat slowly. My example: The most exciting stories use sequences that move forward at different pace, which keep the audience engaged. In his novel, The Da Vinci Code Pace in Spanish is paso | 12 | |
| 5895197328 | parallelism | (PAIR-uh-lell-liz-zim) (noun) Def: A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph Schultz Example: Cameron swung, stumbled, and fell. 2nd Schultz Example: F. Scott Fitzgerald: "After two years, I remember that day, and that night, and that next day." My Example: "She likes cooking, jogging, and reading." parallelism In Spanish is paralelismo | 13 | |
| 5895197329 | parenthesis | (puh-REN-this-siss) (noun) Def: a qualifying or explanatory word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a longer sentence but otherwise does no grammatical disruption, indicated by parentheses, commas, or dashes Schultz Example: Waukegan High School - you should know where that is - has a team in the finals. My Example: Waukegan JROTC - you know what that is - has a drill team that goes to nationals. Parenthesis in Spanish is paréntesis | 14 | |
| 5895199606 | periodic sentence | (peer-ee-ODD-dic SEN-tints) (adj + noun) Def: a sentence with modifying elements that occur before the verb Schultz Example: Mr. Mennecke, the morose teacher, the guy with the incredible punk rock T-shirt collection, taught the sophomores the tragedy of Julius Caesar. My Example:In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued Periodic Sentence in Spanish is frase periódica | 15 | |
| 5895199607 | scheme | SKEEM) (noun) Def: the artful variation from the typical formation and structure of words, phrases, or sentences Schultz Examples: asyndeton, parallelism, ellipsis, alliteration, parenthesis, etc. My Example: include such devices as alliteration and assonance (that purposefully arrange sounds, as in The Leith police dismisseth us) and antithesis, chiasmus, climax, and anticlimax (that arrange words for effect, as in the cross-over phrasing One for all and all for one)." Scheme in Spanish is esquema | 16 | |
| 5895201273 | anecdote | (ANN-nick-doat) (noun) Def: a brief narrative within a larger text to illustrate a point or support a claim Schultz Example: starting a personal statement for college with a story illustrating a key strength of yours My Example: You know, when I was a kid, my dog was my best friend. My childhood was better because of him. Anecdote in Spanish is anécdota | 17 | |
| 5895202456 | epistrophe | (ee-PISS-troh-fee) (noun) Def: the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of clause within the same sentence Schultz Example: And all the night he did nothing but weep Philoclea, sigh Philoclea, and cry out Philoclea. (Philip Sidney) My example: "The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek-now that, too, was gone...." Epistrophe in Spanish is epistrophe | 18 | |
| 5895204092 | zeugma | (ZOYG-muh) (noun) Def: a sentence in which the subject verb construction is stated, the repeated with a part missing, that is then considered to be understood by the reader Schultz Example: Alexander conquered the world; I, Minneapolis. My Example: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."(William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Zeugma in Spanish is zeugma | 19 | |
| 5895205150 | sentential adverb | (sen-TEN-shul AD-verb) (adj + noun) Def: a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, that emphasizes the words before and after it Schultz Example: His finger is not, in fact, stuck permanently in his nose My Example: "But the lake was not drained before April." "But the lake was not, in fact, drained before April." sentential adverb in Spanish is adverbio oracional | 20 | |
| 5895205151 | litotes | (LY-tuh-teez) (noun) Def: a form of understatement in which the opposite of the intended meaning is stated Schultz Example: Running your car into that tree certainly didn't do it any good. Schultz Ex2: We were not not defeated My Example: "I am not unaware how the productions of the Grub Street brotherhood have of late years fallen under many prejudices." (Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub) Litotes in Spanish is Litotes | 21 | |
| 5895206740 | distinctio | (diss-TINK-tee-o) (noun) Def: an explicit reference to a meaning of a word so that the author's intentions are clear Schultz Example: Landing a person on Mars is impossible - by "impossible" I mean currently beyond our technological capabilities. Schultz Ex2: The precipitate should be moved to the crucible paper quickly - that is, within three minutes. My Example: "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been,' that's one thing. If it means 'there is none,' that was a completely true statement."(President Bill Clinton, Grand Jury testimony, 1998) Distinctio in Spanish is distinctio | 22 | |
| 5895206741 | euphenism | (YOO-fuh-miz-im) (noun) Def: an indirect expression of something unpleasant, in order to minimize its impact Schultz Example: "heck" for hell; "Palmetto bug" for cockroach My Example: "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs." (Shakespeare's "Othello) euphemism in Spanish is eufemismo | 23 | |
| 5895209357 | narrative intrusion | (adj + noun) Def: when the author interrupts the narrative to give background information Schultz Example: Bill Bryson punctuating his and Katz' exploits with nature descriptions My Example: When Deadpool breaks the fourth wall narrative intrusion in Spanish is intrusión narrativa | 24 | |
| 5895210482 | amplification | (noun) Def: repeating a word or phrase with more description and emphasis Schultz Example: After ten days of dieting, I had visions of ice cream, towering mountains of ice cream, gooey and delicious and full of lovely calories. My Example: The assignment was complicated because it involved numerous steps. I believe I became lost on step three, but I'm not sure. I may have miscalculated here on step four as well. Can you help me? Amplification in Spanish is amplificación | 25 | |
| 5895210483 | alliteration | (uh-lit-ter-RAY-shun) (noun) Def: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or middle of two or more adjacent words Schultz Example: To make a man who matches in moral need..."(Edwin Markham) My Example: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."(James Joyce's "The Dead") Alliteration in Spanish is aliteración | 26 | |
| 5895212740 | anadiplosis | (ann-uh-dip-PLOH-sis) (noun) Def: repeating a word at the end of one clause at the beginning of the next clause Schultz Example: Our doubt is our passion; our passion is our task. (Henry James) My Example: "For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer." (John Milton's Lycidas,) anadiplosis in Spanish is anadiplosis | 27 | |
| 5895212741 | anaphora | (ann-uh-FOR-uh) (noun) Def: repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses Schultz Example: We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and on the streets... (Winston Churchill) My Example: "Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters! and again I hear these waters..."(William Wordsworth in "Tintern Abbey":) Anaphora in Spanish is anáfora | 28 | |
| 5895215019 | anthimeria | (an-thih-MAIR-ee-uh) (noun) Def: the substitution of one part of speech for another Schultz Example:Calvin: I like to verb words. Hobbes: What? Calvin: Verbing weirds language. My Example: Don't forget to hashtag that post. anthimeria in Spanish is anthimeria | 29 | |
| 5895216191 | hypophora | (hy-poe-FOR-uh) (noun) Def: asking a series of questions, then providing answers at great length Schultz Example: Why should you vote for me? I'll give you five good reasons... My Example: "Thirty-one cakes, dampened with whiskey, bask on window sills and shelves. Who are they for? Friends. Not necessarily neighbor friends: indeed, the larger share is intended for persons we've met maybe once, perhaps not at all. People who've struck our fancy. Like President Roosevelt". (A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote) hypophora in Spanish is hypophora | 30 | |
| 5895216192 | rhetorical question | (ret-TOR-ick-cull question) (adj + noun) Def: asking a question with an obvious or obviously desired answer, that the writer or speaker does NOT answer, for emphasis, effect, provocation, or drawing a conclusion Schultz Example: For if we lose the ability to perceive our faults, what is the good of living on? - (Marcus Aurelius) My Example: Is the pope catholic? Rhetorical Question in Spanish is pregunta retórica | 31 | |
| 5895217971 | appositive | (uh-PAHZ-uh-tiv) (noun) Def: a noun or noun phrase, set off by commas or dashes, that immediately follows another noun and defines or amplifies its meaning Schultz Example: The Bulldog, our mascot, ran onto the field waving his arms. My Example: Though her cheeks were high-colored and her teeth strong and yellow, she looked like a mechanical woman, a machine with flashing, glassy circles for eyes. Appositive in Spanish is apositivo | 32 | |
| 5895217972 | apophasis | (app-poe-FASS-siss) (noun) Def: asserts or emphasizes something by seeming to pass over it or deny it; a writer is calling attention to inflammatory or sensitive info while remaining detached from it Schultz Example: We will not bring up that he beats his wife and is an alcoholic, because that isn't relevant to our case. Or, I need not remind you to bring a number 2 pencil on test day. My Example: We don't make excuses, but three of our four starting defensive linemen were watching the game today." Apophasis in Spanish is apofasía | 33 | |
| 5895219940 | metanoia | (mett-uh-NOY-uh) (noun) Def: qualifying a statement by recalling it and mentioning it in a better, stronger or milder way, usually with a negative Schultz Example: Mr. Mennecke had the deepest feeling of English teachers- no, of all teachers. My Example: "I have my shortcomings, through my own fault and through my failure to observe the admonitions of the gods - and I may almost say, their direct instructions." (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations) metanoia In Spanish is metanoia | 34 | |
| 5895219941 | metonymy | (mit-THAN-nim-mee) (noun) Def: referring to an entity as one of its attributes or an associated concept Schultz Example: "Hollywood" to represent the entire movie business, "the White House" to represent an entire President's administration My Example: We must wait to hear from the crown until we make any further decisions. Metonymy in Spanish is metonimia | 35 | |
| 5895221909 | assonance | (ASS-suh-nints) (noun) Def: vowel rhyme, often by matching syllables Schultz Example: Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor (Edgar Allan Poe) My Example: "Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came." assonance in Spanish is asonancia | 36 | |
| 5895223153 | tautology | (taw-TAHL-uh-jee) (noun) Def: a group of words that repeats an idea previously expressed Schultz Example: If you don't get any better, you'll never improve. My Example: I went there personally. tautology In Spanish is tautología | 37 | |
| 5895223154 | trope | (TROHP) (noun) Def: the use of figurative language in literature Schultz Examples: pun, metonymy, oxymoron, simile, metpahor, hyperbole. My Example: Two households, both alike in dignity... (Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare) Trope in Spanish is tropo | 38 | |
| 5895224152 | chiasmus | (ky-AZ-muhss) (noun) Def: inverted parallelism, usually in a A, B, B, A structure Schultz Examples: He knowingly (A) led (B), and we followed (B) blindly (A). The first (A) shall be last (B) and the last (B) first (A). My Example: "Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You." Chiasmus in Spanish is chiasmus | 39 | |
| 5895226526 | synecdoche | (sin-NECK-doh-key) (noun) Def: a figure of speech in which a part or a feature is used to describe the whole Schultz Examples: "Wheels" to refer to a car, "pigskin" to refer to a football, "John Hancock" to refer to a signature. My Example: I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. Synecdoche in Spanish is sinécdoque | 40 | |
| 5895226527 | isocolon | (EYE-suh-koh-lin) (noun) Def: a form of parallelism in which the clauses are of similar length and structure Schultz Example: The higher the climb, the longer the fall. My Example: Good we must love, and must hate ill, For ill is ill, and good good still; But there are things indifferent, Which we may neither hate, nor love, But one, and then another prove, As we shall find our fancy bent... isocolon in Spanish is isocolon | 41 | |
| 5895227931 | onomatopoeia | (on-nuh-mahn-uh-PEE-uh) (noun) Def: a word that sounds like its meaning Schultz Examples: boom, click, piss, pop, bang My Example: The sheep went, "Baa." Onomatopoeia in Spanish is onomatopeya | 42 | |
| 5895230310 | allegory | (noun) Def: a metaphor that extends for an entire narrative Schultz Example: In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the lives of the animals on the farm are allegorical for the major players in the 1917 Russian Revolution. My Example: The Red-Cross Knight represents holiness. Allegory in Spanish is alegoría | 43 | |
| 5895230311 | allusion | (noun) Def: a reference within one text to another text, usually with the assumption that all listeners will understand the reference Schultz Example: Patrick Henry refers to a "siren song" in his "Speech in the Virginia Assembly". My Example: Your backyard is a Garden of Eden. (Biblical allusion) allusion in Spanish is alusión | 44 | |
| 5895232146 | anastrophe | (ann-ASS-troh-fee) (noun) Def: purposely inverting word order for effect Schultz Example: "the City Beautiful", "this is forest primeval" (Longfellow) My Example: Excited the children were when Santa entered the room. Anastrophe in Spanish is anastrophe | 45 | |
| 5895232147 | antithesis | (ann-TITH-this-sis) (noun) Def: the juxtaposition of opposing words and ideas, often in parallel structure Schultz Example: "I found her lying on the bed as lovely as the June night... and as drunk a monkey..." (Fitzgerald) My Example: "Man proposes, God disposes." - Source unknown. Antithesis in Spanish is antítesis | 46 | |
| 5895235037 | analogy | (uh-NAL-uh-jee) (noun) Def: compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one (Note: similes are analogies. But similes are brief and often artistic, and analogies are longer and extend the comparison) Schultz Example: "I am to dancing what Roseanne is to singing and Donald Duck to motivational speeches. I am as graceful as a refrigerator falling down a flight of stairs." - Leonard Pitts My Example: Structure of an atom is like a solar system. Nucleus is the sun and electrons are the planets revolving around their sun." Analogy in Spanish is analogía | 47 | |
| 5895235038 | hyperbole | (hy-PER-buh-lee) (noun) Def: deliberate exaggeration for effect Schultz Examples: "I've told you fifty thousand times, stop exaggerating.""His brain is the size of a pea." My Example: It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets. Hyperbole in Spanish is hipérbole | 48 | |
| 5895236793 | oxymoron | (ocks-see-MOR-on) (noun) Def: two seemingly opposite words together in a text Schultz Examples: alone together, deafening silence, jumbo shrimp, baby grand (piano), living dead, guest host, only choice, old news My Example: Great Depression Oxymoron in Spanish is oxímoron | 49 |
