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English 2 midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of similar consonant sounds within a phrase or sentence |
| Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art |
| Anagnorisis | This is the moment of comprehension when the tragic hero becomes aware of his hamartia. |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines |
| Antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect |
| Asyndeton | the absence of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words. |
| Catharsis | The purging of pity and fear (the ultimate goal of a tragedy according to Aristotle). |
| Conduplicatio | repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses |
| Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight |
| Foreshadowing | Giving clues to the reader about what will happen next. |
| Hubris | excessive pride or arrogance |
| Imagery | Language that creates a sensory impression within the reader’s mind (includes appeals to the visual (eyes), auditory (ears), tactile (touch), thermal (heat or cold), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and kinesthetic |
| Inference | an educated guess made by the reader, based on evidence in the story |
| Irony | When the opposite of what is expected occurs |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else without using “like” or “as.” |
| Motif | Any element, subject, idea or concept that is consistently present through the entire body of literature |
| Paralipsis | pretending to omit something |
| Parenthesis | a piece of punctuation () |
| Paradox | a statement that appears at first to be contradictory, but upon reflection then makes sense. |
| Parallel structure/parallelism | Similarity in structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. |
| Peripeteia | This is the point in which the tragic hero realizes all is lost (point of no return) |
| Polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions such as “and”, “or”, “for” and “but” in close succession, especially when most of them could be replaced with a comma. |
| Repetition | The act of using words or phrases several times for effect. |
| Symbol/symbolic | the use of one object, character, or idea to represent something larger than itself |
| Synecdoche | figure of speech in which the part of something is used to represent the whole |
| Tone | the author’s attitude towards a subject |
| Understatement | intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is |
| auspicious | adj. auguring favorable circumstances and good luck |
| becloud | verb make less visible or unclear |
| beguiles | charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way. |
| exile | noun the act of expelling a person from their native land; expelled from home or country by authority; voluntarily absent from home or country; verb expel from a country |
| familial | adj. tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; relating to or having the characteristics of a family |
| illegitimate | adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful; noun the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
| innate | adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development; being talented through inherited qualities; not established by conditioning or learning |
| manipulate | treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposes; hold something in one's hands and move it; control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; influence or control shrewdly or deviously |
| prophetic | adj. foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention |
| predisposition | noun a disposition in advance to react in a particular way; an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way; susceptibility to a pathogen |
| repute | noun the state of being held in high esteem and honor; verb look on as or consider |
| tension | noun the action of stretching something tight; (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body |
Created by:
Sara Hill
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