Vocab 4

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words:

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• antithesis

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference:

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• antithesis

the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• antithesis

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else:

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• antithesis

in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence):

• assonance

• author's purpose

• details

• denotation

reason for or intent in writing

• assonance

• author's purpose

• details

• denotation

an individual feature, fact, or item:

• assonance

• author's purpose

• details

• denotation

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests

• assonance

• author's purpose

• details

• denotation

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning:

• connotation

• epiphany

• epithet

• flashback

a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something

• connotation

• epiphany

• epithet

• flashback