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Unit 2: American Renaissance Vocabulary
Flashcards do conjunto (22)
- 1Nonconformista person whose behavior or views do not comply with prevailing ideas or practices
- 2Exact rhymetwo words with identical sounds in their final syllable
- 3Slant rhymetwo words with similar, but not identical final sounds
- 4Free versepoetry without regular rhyme or meter (Whitman was the first American poet to use it)
- 5Cataloglong list used in literature
- 6Anaphorathe use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition
- 7Alliterationthe occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
- 8Allusiona brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement
- 9Apostrophea figure of speech in which the poet addresses on absent person, an abstract idea, or thing
- 10Assonancerepetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
- 11Consonancethe repetition of the same consonant two or more times in a succession
- 12Synecdochedeliberate confusion of scale
- 13Symbolismsignify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
- 14Similedraws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as”
- 15Personificationfigure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes
- 16Parallelismelements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter
- 17Paradoxcontrary to expectations, existing belief or perceived opinion
- 18Oxymoronfigure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
- 19Onomatopoeiathe formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent
- 20Metaphorthe comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as
- 21Imageryspark off the senses
- 22Hyperboleuse of over-exaggeration for the purpose of creating emphasis or being humorous, but it is not intended to be taken literally
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- 11 English (Unit 2: American Renaissance) FlashCards sobre Unit 2: American Renaissance Vocabulary, criado por Isabelle Robertson em 26-02-2016.
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- Isabelle Robertson · fev 2016
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