Vocab (week 1) Flashcards
absolute
may precede, follow, or interrupt the main clause: “Their slender bodies sleek and black against the orange sky, the storks circled high above us.”
adage
a saying that embodies a common observation: “A penny saved is a penny earned”
alliteration
repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
anaphora
deliberate repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses: “It was the best of times, It was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”
apostrophe
to direct the reader’s attention to something other than the person who’s speaking; addressing a person who is not present or to a personified object: “O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
approximate rhyme
a perfect matching of sounds in words, based on end sounds: strange and strained
assonance
the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words: “After a while, crocodile.”
asyndeton
excludes conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) to add emphasis: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
cacophony
harsh sounds, often the result of repetition and combination of consonants: “Klarissa Klein”
chiasmus
repetition of any group of verse elements in reverse order: “But many that are first, Shall be last, And many that are last, Shall be first”; Matthew 19:30
conceit
forms an extremely ingenious parallel between apparently dissimilar objects or situations: “If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.”
consonance
repeats the same consonant sound within a group of words: “Mike likes his new bike.”
ellipsis
omitting a portion of the sequence of events, allowing the reader to fill in the gaps: “In the baseball game, out team scored four home runs, the other team, only two.”
euphony
pleasing to hear: “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
feminine rhyme
rhyme when words have the same beginning and ending: “measles” and “weasels”
