Vocab Quiz #3 Flashcards
Preposition
Sits before a noun (or pronoun) to show the noun’s relationship to another word in the sentence
Polysyndeton
The use of a conjunction between each word phrase, or clause, and is thus the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of Polysyndeton often shares a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up.
Asyndeton
The omission of a conjunction from a list. In a list of items, asyndeton gives the effect of unmediated multiplicity, of an extratemporous rather than a labored account.
Analogy
A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it.
Trope
Figures of Speech with an unexpected twist in the meaning of words ( a word or expression used in a figurative sense). Would include metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, puns, zeugma, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia.
Cadence
A rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language. The beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity.
Oxymoron
In an apparent contradiction of terms
(usually two)
Paradox
An apparent contradiction of ideas of statements and, therefore, is closely related to the oxymoron but consists of the whole sentence or phrase.
Think of a paradox as an oxmoron on a larger scale (the whole sentance).
Metonomy
An entity is referred to by one of its attributes. Unlike metaphors, which make comparisons, metonymy and synecdoche, make substitutions - usually something abstract for something concrete (or vice versa), a container for the thing contained, a part of a whole, a cause for the affect, and so on. An object or a place - is used to represent a larger a more abstract concept.
Synecdoche
A type of metonymy (like a square is a special type of rectangle), is a type of metonymy, in which a part is substituted for the whole, or vice versa.
Pronounced Synec”k”oche
