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Allocation

Allocation

the act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate

Admonish

to caution, advice, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner

Akimbo

with hand on hip and elbow bent outward.

Ascetic

a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit or contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

Alliteration

repetition of initial consonant sound or neighboring words

Allusion

a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or thing

Antithesis

involves a direct contrast of structurally paralleled word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast

Apostrophe

a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present

Assonance

the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words

Beguile

to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving

Consonance

the repetition of a consonant within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect

Crass

without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid

Defray

to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.)

Dint

force; power

Enjoin

to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis

Envoy

a diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative

Flashback

a scene that inturrupts the action of a work to show a previous event

Foreshadowing

the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future actions

Hyperbole

a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration

Verbal Irony

the result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite

Situational Irony

when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect thought often the twist is oddly appropriate

Dramatic Irony

occurs when a character says or does something that has more or different meanings from what he thinks it means, thought the audience and/or other characters do understand the full ramifications of the speech or action

Licentious

sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd; unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral

Lassitude

weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.'; lack of energy; listlessness; languor; a condition of indolent indifference

Metaphor

a comparison without the use of like or as; usually a comparison between something that is concrete and something that is abstract

Muse

(verb) to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject; (noun) any of a number of sister goddesses

Onomatopoeia

the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble to sounds they describe

Oxymoron

a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single unusually expression

Paradox

when the elements of a statement contradict each other. Although the statement may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth

Personification

a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

Prosody

the study of sound and rhythm in poetry

Pun

a play of words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply deverse meanings. Puns can have serious as well as humorous uses

Sarcasm

a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting

Sensory Detail

an appeal to the senses (sight, sound, texture, taste, smell)

Shift or Turn

a change in movement in a piece resulting from epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader

Similie

a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words like or as. It is definitely stated comparisonin which the write says one things is like another

Symbols

any object, person, place, or action that has both meaning in itself and that stand for something larger than itself, such as quality, attitude, belief, or value

Synecdoche (metonymy)

a form of metaphor. In synecdoche, apart of something is used to signify the whole; in metonymy, the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which is closely associated

Synesthesia

sense mixing

Understatement (meiosis, litotes)

the opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is

Vicarious

performed, exercised, received, or suffered, in place of another; taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute; felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others