Literary Terms: Tier 3
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Hjellming on September 16, 2008
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These are advanced terms which would be wonderful for everyone to know. They are the icing on the cake of your analysis (sweet, but not necessary in order to have good cake). Enjoy!
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EE.II., Stafford Vocabulary - AGLA, Hjellming's Logophiles
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| apostrophe |  the direct address to a deceased or absent person as if he or she were present, to an animal or thing, or an artistic idea or quality |
| malapropism | an unconscious error in speech or writing on a part of a character which is deliberate on the part of the author; result from substituting one word for another with a similar sound but entirely different meaning |
| apposition | pairs of complementary ideas |
| antithesis | pairs of contrasting ideas |
| litotes | esp. important in satire; a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite |
| ellipsis | omission (done deliberately, for effect) |
| asyndeton | omission of conjunctions in a series |
| polysyndeton | use of multiple conjunctions in a series |
| anaphora | repetition of word(s) at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs |
| epistrophe | repetition of the same word(s) at the end of successive clauses |
| epanalepsis | use of the same word at the start and the end of a clause |
| anadiplosis | use of the last word on one clause for the start of the next clause |
| antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order |
| chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses |
| polyptoton | repetition of words from the same root in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc. |
| caesura | a midline pause in a line of verse |
| epizeuxis | immediately repeating a word to give it greater impact |
| parison | repeating an entire sentence or clause almost exactly |
| ploce | repeating words in a line or clause |
| atanaclasis | punning on a repeated word to obtain different meanings |
| bombast | boastful or ranting language (adj. form: bombastic) |
| fricative | consonant made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening, producing a turbulent airflow (f, th) |
| plosive | consonant produced by stopping the airflow using lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air (voiceless--t, k, p; voiced--d, g, b |
| parataxis | placing of phrases/clauses, one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination |
| hypotaxis | the subordination of one clause to another |
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