Critical Vocab #3 (2024)

a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with

• juxtaposition

• antithesis

• extended metaphor

• chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.

• chiasmus

• didactic

• conjunction

• epiphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses.

• epiphora

• euphemism

• anaphora

• asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech which allows a part to stand for a whole or for a whole to stand for a part.

• synecdoche

• personification

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

• sibilance

• fallacy

• assonance

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

• analogy

• aphorism

• irony

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A statement that appears to contradict itself.

• paradox

• juxtaposition

• idiom

• polysyndeton

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

• oxymoron

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

repetition of a prominent and usually the last word in one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next

• euphemism

• anaphora

• anadiplosis

• asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

• sibilance

• anaphora

• personification

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4