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English Final

QuestionAnswer
Commiseration sympathy
Blatantly obviously
Eulogy speech for someone who has died/praise
Pejorative dissaproving
Diction word choice
Idiosyncratic distinctive
Stoic stone faced/emotionless
Avaricious Greedy
Burgeoning multiplying
Chivalrous courteous
Incongruent incompatible
Tenebrous dark
Coquette flirty woman
Stalwart hardworking/reliable/stubborn
Ubiquitous ever present
Maudlin self-pitying
Infinitive phrase use of pronouns/noun, verb, adverb
Euphemism substitute for unpleasant words
Allusion referring to something else
Hyperbole exaggeration
Maxim surprising
Idiom a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
Rhetorical Question question not meant to be answered
Juxtaposition two words contrasting
Metonymy substitution of a name
Apostrophe address something
Paradox self-contradicting statement that is actually true
Simile comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
Rhetoric pursuasive speaking
Understatement present something as less important than it is/ "irony"
Fallacy mistaken belief
Conjecture guess
Participial Phrase a group of words containing a participle, modifier, and pronoun or noun phrases. The Pronoun/Noun will act the recipient of the action in the phrase.
Appositive Phrase An appositive phrase is a noun, noun phrase, or series of nouns that renames the noun next to it.
Gerundive Phrase a phrase consisting of a gerund and any modifiers or objects associated with it. A gerund is a noun made from a verb root plus ing
Prepositional Phrase a modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object.
Chiasmus a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form
Personal anecdote tell a story that you make up or a true story about something that happened to you
Created by: sophiesoup13
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