Crime & Punishment + AP Terminology - Set One

Synedoche

• Figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa

• Originates from the Greek word “synekdoche” translating to “simultaneous meaning”

• Ex) Philly won the superbowl

Litotes

• Utilizes negative wording to express a positive assertion or statement

• Ex) Well you’re not wrong

Synesthesia

• A technique to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense like sight, hearing, smell, or touch at a given time

• Ex) Blueberry tasted round

Malapropism

• From French phrase “mal a propos” meaning “inappropriate”

• The use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word

• Ex) “Alcoholics Unanimous”

Colloquialism

• Informal and Conversational

• A word or expression that is a commonplace within a specific language, geographic region, or historical era

Anachronism

• Derived from the Greek word “anachronous” meaning against time

• Is an error in chronology or timeline

• Other words: anything that is out of time and out of place

• Ex) Clocks found in Julius Caesar - clocks weren’t invented during the periond

Concertina

A musical instrument similar to an accordion

Diminutive

Smaller, very small

Fastidiousness

An attentiveness to detail

Ikon

icon; a religious experiences

Grandiloquent

Pompous expressions

Pomatum

A perfume made of apples

Titular

Having the nature of a title

Bacchus

The Greek god of wine and revelry (loud festivities)

Bilious

Looking sick to one’s stomach; bad-tempered

Expostulate

To reason with a person earnestly, objecting that person’s actions or intentions

Ignominy

Loss of one’s reputation; shame and dishonor

Monomaniac

A person with a mental disorder characterized by irrational preoccupation with one subject

Costermonger

A person who sells produce on the street

Ineradicable

Not able to be erased