Sophisticated Terms Flashcards
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Effusion
A word meaning a spontaneous expression.
Elegy
A poem lamenting a dead person or persons.
Epithalamium
A poem celebrating a wedding.
Anaphora
the repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, passages
Anastrophe
inversion of usual word order
Aposiopesis
breaking off in the middle of a sentence
Apostrophe
addressing a person who is not present
Asyndeton
omission of conjunctions:
Ellipsis
omission of words
Metonymy
substitution of one word for another that it suggests
Polysyndeton
use of many conjunctions
Synecdoche
use of part to express a whole
Zeugma
use of one word in two different senses simultaneously
Alexandrine
12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse.
Anapest
A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Aubade
A love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn.
Chiasmus
Repetition of any group of verse elements (including rhyme and grammatical structure) in reverse order, such as the rhyme scheme ABBA.
Consonance
A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme (see also Alliteration). Consonance can also refer to shared consonants, whether in sequence (“bed” and “bad”) or reversed (“bud” and “dab”).
Dactyl
A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables; the words “poetry” and “basketball” are both dactylic.
Elision
The omission of unstressed syllables (e.g., “ere” for “ever,” “tother” for “the other”), usually to fit a metrical scheme.
Iamb
One short, One long
Spondee
Two long
Trochee
Long, short
Dactyl
Long, short, short
