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SAT Vocabulary 31
Language Vocabulary for CP2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bathos | anticlimax; triteness or triviality in style; sentimentality. Also used to denote an insincere pathos, an evocation of pity or compassion. |
| malapropism | ridiculous misuse of words, especially by confusion of words that are similar in sound. |
| metaphor | the application of a word or phrase to an object or concept that it does not literally denote, in order to suggest a comparison with another object or concept. |
| metonymy | the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as "the bottle" for strong drink. |
| onomatopoeia | formation of words in imitation of natural sounds the use of words whose sound suggests the sense. |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a particular phrasing of words produces an effect by seeming self-contradiction, as in "cruel-kindness" or "laborious idleness." |
| panegyric | an oration, discourse, or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy. |
| paradigm | example or pattern; a set of forms in grammar all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem. |
| paralipsis | the suggestion, by deliberately concise treatment of a topic, that much significant material is being omitted, as in the use of the phrase "not to mention other faults." Another name for preterition |
| pleonasm | the use of more words than necessary to express an idea; redundancy; superfluity. |
| polygot | knowing many or several languages; containing composed of, or in several languages; a confusion of languages; a person with a speaking or reading knowledge of a number of languages. |
| semantics | the study of meaning; the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form. |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using the words "like" or "as," as in "she is like a rose." |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in "ten sail" for "ten ships" or a Croesus for a "rich man" or the name of the material for the thing made. |
| threnody | a poem, speech, or slang of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song. |
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