UIL Vocab Part 6

the group of 19th century writers from New York who finally gained international acclaim for their literary works.

• Knickerbocker

• Free Writers

• Koine

• Liminality

A common dialect of the Greek language that influenced the speech of all Greeks.

• Litotes

• Koine

• Leonine Rhyme

• Knickerbocker

The rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry, usually in the middle and at the end of the line

• Litotes

• Metaphor

• Lost Generation

• Leonine Rhyme

a period during which participant has left one place but not yet entered the next

• Koine

• Mock Epic

• Liminality

• Metalepsis

A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite

• Lost Generation

• Counterclaim

• Claim

• Litotes

A group of American writers that rebelled against America's lack of cosmopolitan culture in the early 20th century. Many moved to cultural centers such as London in Paris in search for literary freedom. Prominent writers included T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway among others.

• Malaphorism

• Writer's Revolution

• Lost Generation

• metonymy

the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar (The doctor wrote a subscription)

• Metalepsis

• Malaphorism

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

The compounding of multiple figures of speech.

• Mock Epic

• Minimalism

• Muses

• Metalepsis

figure of speech comparing two different things

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Similie

• Met Gala

A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").

• Naturalism

• Metonymy

• Nemesis

• Minimalism