IB English Week 2 Vocabulary
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" |
| Apostrophe | the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds Try to light the fire |
| Asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions, as in "He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect." |
| Bank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentamerter. |
| Cacophony | loud confusing disagreeable sounds |
| Caesura | a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) |
| Caricature | a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn. |
| Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing Pop vs. soft drink |
| Canon | a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy |
| Concrete Language | Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities. |
| Connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of "home" is "a place of warmth, comfort, and affection." |
| Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile Whether Jew or Gentile |
| Deduction | the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) |
| Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
| Diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words, Use precise military verbiage |
| Dissonance | disagreeable sounds |
| Dramatic Irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't |
| Emotional Appeal | tries to persuade the reader by using words that appeal to the reader's emotions instead of to logic or reason |
| End-stopped | a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation |
| conceit | elaborate or unusual comparison |
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