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Vocab. set 6
Essential terms set 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Synecdoche | A specific type of metonymy in which a part of something is meant to signify the whole, or the whole is meant to stand for an individual part. ex. That is a nice set of wheels= meaning the car as a whole. |
| Foreshadowing | A detail in a literary work that hints at events that will occur later, often to create suspense or expectation. |
| Flashback | move to a scene in a movie, novel, etc. that is set in a time earlier than the main story. |
| Denotation | The literal definition of a word from a dictionary. |
| Connotation | The implied meaning of a word, not the literal definition. |
| Symbol | Roses= love |
| Epithet | A descriptive phrase that accompanies or replaces the name of a character or thing. ex. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson |
| Antithesis | A rhetorical technique that uses parallel grammatical structure to contrast two opposing ideas. ex“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” |
| Pun | A play on words that depends on substituting homophones (words that sound alike with different meanings, for example, “tail” and “tale”) or words that sound enough alike that using them interchangeably results in a humorous or provocative effect. |
| Paradox | A provocative statement that contradicts itself yet is typically true in some sense. |
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