list of vocab
List of new vocab
Alliteration- repetition of a phonetic sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence. Example: Simple Simon sat on the straw and Peter Piper picked a Peck of pickled Peppers.
Anadiplosis- repetition, last word of a clause begins the next clause, creating a connection of ideas important to the author's purpose. Example: Furies chased them in.The men were chased by their nightmares. Their nightmares awakened Everyone in the room.
Anaphora- deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, or clauses or paragraph. Example: I will fight for medical care for every man, woman, and child. I will fight for Social Security for our children. I will fight to raise the minimum wage.
Antithesis- An observation or claim that is in opposition to your claim or an author's claim. Example: If we claim that the Electoral College is an outdated anachronism. The _______ would be that, like the rest of the Constitution, it has managed to adapt to the changing times.
Asyndeton- The deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses. Example: All the orcs ate the food, broke the dishes, trashed the hall, beat the dogs to the shower.
Epistrophe- minor device, the ending of a series lines phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. Example: It is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Imperative- a command. Example: you will rescue the maiden or surrender your sword to the round table.
Metaphor- A figure speech in which what is unknown is compared to something known to better gauge its importance.
Oxymoron- two words that together create a sense of opposition. Often call attention to a particular point in an argument.
Paradox- A major figure of speech in rhetorical analysis that seeks to create a mental discontinuity. Be careful how you pace yourself by walking too quickly. You get there more slowly.
Parallelism- a pattern of language that creates a rhythm or repetition, often combined with some other language or repetition. Example.: We will fight them on the beaches, in the hills, in the forest, in the village of Fidel.
Parentheticals in parathesis- Phrases. Sentences in words inside parentheses. Example: Big Bopper (J.P. told his friends.) rolled into Chantilly Lace and all the girls went wild.
Polysyndeton- The use of consecutive coordinating conjunctions even when they are not needed. Example: He was overwhelmed, as if by a tsunami, and by the fishes, and by the seaweed, and by the salt spray from the heavens.
Tricolon- a sentence with three equally distinct and equally long parts. (Separated by commas rather than colors, despite the name.) example: The most famous is I came, I saw, I conquered.
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