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vocabulary 3/16/16
college read and write vocabulary quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allusion | reference to person or event creates emotional/intellectual context (honest as Lincoln) |
| alleration | repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words repetition; musical (Peter Piper) |
| aphorism | a brief concise saying that is memorable and appealing (quitters never win and winners never quit!) |
| apostrophe | an address to someone absent or some abstract quality "there is a snake in my boot!!" |
| connotation | word association that goes beyond the dictionary definition of a word links reader to shared associations |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statement irony/humor |
| irony | statement or situations that contradict reality brings attention to the statement/situation compared to reality |
| oxymoron | two words that contradict one another a verbal trick |
| paradox | a statement that is apparently self-contradictory or absurd, but really contains a possible truth "I am nobody" |
| colloquial/informal | casual language slang/idioms SUH DUDE |
| connotation | associated or secondary meaning of a word room to make an interpretation of the text (context) |
| denotation | dictionary definition helps define terms |
| conceit | fanciful expression in writing or speach elaborate metaphor |
| metaphor | compare two unlike without like or as |
| simile | compare two like things using like as |
| onomatopoeia | word used to imitate the sound of something it makes swoosh - to create a clear image |
| personification | nonhuman things described with human characteristics |
| theme | authors comment about human nature; what the piece is about |
| motif | recurring theme (the canon in Hunger Games) |
| parallelism | use of lists (words, phrases) of equal grammatical units creates sense of equality through connection |
| repetition | reiteration of a word, sound, phrase or idea emphasizes concepts/words through number |
| anaphora | repetition of words at the beginning of lines/sentences emphasizes concept/words through number and placement |
| antithesis | a balance of contrasting ideas, words or clauses "man proposes, God disposes" emphasizes the play between similarities and differences, or can enforce ambiguity (think of a politician, never committing to one side or the other) |
| inversion/anastrophe | the placements of a sentence element out of its normal position; "lady fair" creates an unusual focus on particular words (check date of passage - old writers were fond of this ) |
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