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Forms Quiz Flashcards

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repetition

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  • creates emphasis; things appearing more than once

- turning and turning

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passive voice

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-noting who the verb happened to (i.e. he was verbed)

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active voice

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-noting who did the verb (i.e. he verbs)

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word choice

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-diction; what words (noun; adjective; etc.) the author chose

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verb choice

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-diction; what words (verbs) the author chose

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irony

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  • the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
  • There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.
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semi-colon

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-connecting two related sentences without losing momentum

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metaphor

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  • a comparison without using “like” or “as”

- He drowned in a sea of grief.

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telegraphic sentence

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  • less than or equal to 5 words; emphasizes content; with some urgency
  • Go to class.
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loose sentence

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  • the main point at the beginning of the sentence

- I found a large hall, obviously a former garage, dimly lit.

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periodic sentence

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  • a sentence which has the main clause at the end
  • Proper maintenance, like checking tire pressure, changing the oil and getting tune-ups, will ensure the best gas mileage for your car.
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balanced sentence

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  • made up of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure
  • Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun.
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declarative sentence

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  • a sentence that states something and ends with a period

- He is an erudite young man.

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interrogative sentence

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-a sentence that asks a question that ends in a “?”

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imperative sentence

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-a sentence that puts forth a command

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exclamatory sentence; exclamation; exclamatio

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-expresses terrific exhilaration; a sentence that communicates excitement and ends in a “!”

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oxymoron

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  • statement of contradictory statements
  • jumbo shrimp
  • bittersweet
  • deafening silence
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antithesis

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  • a balanced structure that sets up opposites

- vision without action is daydream; action without vision is nightmare

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pun

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-play on words

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concrete/abstract examples

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-offering real-world connections either literally or figuratively

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soliloquy

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-when a character speaks alone on stage; speaks his thoughts

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apostrophe

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  • when a character addresses a certain person or thing with “O”
  • O, Rose of Mary
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alliteration

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  • when words in a sentence starts with the same sound effect; draw attention to content
  • She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
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double entrendre

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  • a word for phrase open to two interpretations, one usually risqué
  • “If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?”
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consonance

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  • the repetitive sound produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
  • the ship has sailed to the far off shores
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assonance

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  • the repetition of a pattern of similar sounds within a sentence; “vowel rhyme”
  • the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains
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antimetabole

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  • a literary device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order
  • If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
  • Fair is foul and foul is fair
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anaphora

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  • the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect
  • every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better
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aphorism

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  • a pithy observation that contains a general truth; a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea
  • If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
  • Easy come, easy go
  • Forgive and forget
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asyndeton

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  • a practice in literature whereby the author purposely leaves out conjunctions in the sentence, while maintaining grammatical accuracy
  • He comes, he sleeps, he goes
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  • Without looking, without making a sound, without talking…
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polysyndeton

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  • when a writer employs a series of coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or) in succession
  • “As mine own face. If there be cords or knives,/Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,/I’ll not endure it”
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litotes

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  • ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
  • “You won’t be sorry”
  • “That wasn’t bad”
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hyperbole

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  • obvious and intentional exaggeration

- “I’ve told you a million times”

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colloquial

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  • the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing; colloquialisms are generally geographic in nature
  • to bamboozle
  • buzz off-go away
  • jawn-thing
  • y’all-you all
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connotation

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  • an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its primary meaning; words can often have a positive or negative connotation
  • “Home”–> comfort and security
  • “Black”–> sadness
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denotation

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-literal meaning

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chiasmus

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  • a literary device in which two clauses have reversed grammatical or logical structures, producing an artistically pleasing effect
  • His time a moment, and a point his space.
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metonymy

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  • a figure of speech that replaces the name of something with the name of something closely associated
  • Let me give you a hand
  • Lend me your ears
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epistrophe

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  • the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
  • Where now? Who now? When now?
  • And I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best
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attitude

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  • the perspective or tone that a writer adopts in his writing
  • Goddamn money! It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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synecdoche

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  • when a part of something represents the whole of something else; when the whole of something represents a part of something else
  • Boots on the ground
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sarcasm

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-verbal irony with a bend to make a point

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hortative sentence

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  • a sentence used to encourage someone to do something
  • You can do it!
  • You should read the Lemon Tree!
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imagery

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  • a vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses
  • Where the ocean kissed the southern shore.
  • A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine, And twinkle on the Milky Way
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juxtaposition

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  • the author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another
  • All’s fair in love and war.
  • Beggars can’t be choosers.
  • Can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
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ethos appeal

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  • an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader
  • “Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment.”
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pathos appeal

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  • an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response
  • “You’ll make the right decision because you have something that not many people do: you have heart.”
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logos appeal

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  • an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason
  • “In 25 years of driving the same route, I haven’t seen a single deer.”
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similie

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  • a figure of speech that makes a comparison with “like” or “as”
  • Our soldiers are as brave as lions.
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zeugma

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  • a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in a different sense
  • His boat sank along with his dreams.
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isocolon

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-involves a succession of sentences, phrases and clauses of grammatically equal length
bicolon- two grammatically equal structures
ex. “American by Birth. Rebel by Choice.”
tricolon- three grammatically equal structures
ex. “That government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
tetracolon- four parallel grammatical structures
ex. “I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads, /My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, /My gay apparel for an almsman’s gown, /My figured goblets for a dish of wood…”

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