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| a brief reference to a person, event or place, real or fictitious, or to- is a belief a work of art. A casual reference to a famous historical or literal figure or event. An _______ may be drawn from history, geography, literature or religion. |
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| contains two statements that are balanced or parallel |
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| an original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action or situation that seems to represent common pattens of human life. Often, archetypes include a symbol, a theme, a setting, or a character that some critics think have a common meaning in an entire culture, or even the entire human race. |
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| is a comparison between two different things so you can point out something abuot how they are similar. The comparison often is done point by point. Using this helps the reader to see the logic in your example, perhaps create a visual awareness of what you are talking about and helps them verbalize and understand your suggestion. It transfers information from one particular subject to another. |
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| is nothing but a trope composed of exaggerated words or ideals used for emphasis. Also described as the implied simile. This is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated to create an impace an are not supposed to be interpreted literally. These are commonly used in prose as well as poetry. |
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| the repitition of inital souns in neighboring words. The matching repitition of consonants is called ______, or the repeating of the same letter (or sound) at the beginng of words following each other immediately or at short intervals. |
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| giving human qualities, feelings, action,or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects. |
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| a figure of speech which consists of deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for retorical effect, wheter humurous or serious. They are olays on words that are either identical in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. They may have serious as well as humurous uses. |
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| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
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| an expression whose meaning is not predictable for the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of language, as the tabe round for the roung table, and that is not constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics. A language dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to people. |
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| this device is used to understate the obvious. It is the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. |
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| use of a mild, evasive, or vague term in place of one considered taboo, offensive, blunt, or unpleasant. |
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| the repitition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. |
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| breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character. |
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| identity or simliarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words |
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| the us of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where th e meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. |
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| an implied comparision between two unlike things that actually have somethning important in common. |
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| a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for one another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. |
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| the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objevts or actions they refer to. |
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| a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. |
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| a stated comparisoin between two fundamentalyly dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole. |
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| a deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses |
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| refers to a grammatcial or structual simliarity between sentences or parts of a sentence |
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| is the deliverate use of many conjuctions for special emphasisis, to highlight quantitiy or mass of detail, or tocreate a flowign continuous sentence pattern. |
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| a decice in which words,s ounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis |
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| the repition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |
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| the repetition of the samw word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. |
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| the deliberate omission fo a word or words that are readily implied by the context |
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| the repitition at the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of the clause. |
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| the repitition of the same word or group of words at the edns of successive clauses. |
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| is a sentence stratefy in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first |
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| involves constructing a sentence so th epredicate comes before the subject |
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| a sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired affect. |
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| a question that requires no answer. It is used to draw attention to a point and is generally stronger than a direct statement |
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