Blue Packets Vocab Lang

Allusion

Refrence to something literacy, mythological, or historical

Patrick Henry urged his listeners to not be “betrayed with a kiss”

Connotation

The implied or associative meaning of a word

“Odor” and “fragrance” literally mean the same thing, but good things have fragrance and bad, odor

Denotation

The literal meaning of a word

Although the word “home may suggest safety and confort, it actually just “ones residence”

Diction

Having to do with the word choices made by a writer

Hemingway uses few polysyllabic words; Dickens uses many polysyllabic words

Syntax

Manner in which words are arranged by a writer into sentences

Single sentence in a Faulkner can sometimes be longer than an entire page

Tone

Attitude of the writer usually implied toward audience

Sardonic, apologetic, somber etc

colloquasim

informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing

Huck Finn says, “I got the fantods” to describe his nervousness and says “shin” instead of fun

euphenism

indirect less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasent

In victorian times aldies sadi to “glisten” rather than to “sweat”

oxymoron

an expressin in which two wrods contradict each otehr are joined

jumpo shrimp

Personifaction

endowing non human objects with human qualities

Anaphora

Repetiion of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences

We have petiotioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated

analogy

comparison between two different things whcih are simmilar in some way

symbol

objct which is something in itself yet is used to represent something else

the dove - peace

Aphorism

a concise statement which expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance

“early to bed and earl to rise makes a man healty and wise”

Hyperbole

exaggeration

apostrophe

act of speaking directly to an absent or imaginary person

“O’ death, where is my wife”

didactic

something which has as its primary prupose to teach or instruct

paradox

appraently contradictory statement which actually contains some truth

you have to be cruel to be kind