Moja lekcja

 0    35 tarjetas    guest2655679
descargar mp3 imprimir jugar test de práctica
 
término English definición English
metaphor
empezar lección
refernece to one thing as another, implying a comparison (life is a rollercoaster)
simile
empezar lección
explocit comparison of one thing to another (my love is like a red rose)
synecdoche
empezar lección
a whole is represented by naming one of its parts (look at my new wheels - car)
metonomy
empezar lección
reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes (we’re waiting for the crown - queen)
antanaclasis
empezar lección
repetition of a word in two different senses (while we live, let us live)
paronomasia
empezar lección
using words that sound alike but that differ in meaning (nadal / rafael nadal)
syllepsis
empezar lección
using a word differently in relation to two or more words that it modofies or governs (you held your breath and the door for me)
onomatopeia
empezar lección
use of words whose sound correspond with their semantic values (buzzing ‘zzzz’)
anthimeria
empezar lección
substitution of one part of speech for another (noun used as a verb)
periphrasis
empezar lección
substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name (dad = not-the-mama)
auxesis
empezar lección
reference to smth with a name disproportionately greater than its nature / kind of hyperbole (look at this wound - scratch)
litotes
empezar lección
understatement used deliberately (it’s just a scratch - big wound)
meiosis
empezar lección
reference to smth with a name disproportionately lesser than its nature / a kind of litotes) (its just a flesh wound - amputated leg)
paradox
empezar lección
an apparent contradictory statement that contains a measure of truth (whosoever loses his life, shall find it)
parallelism
empezar lección
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, clauses (pastry is fluffy, sweet, delicious; cod are cheap, trout are expensive, but salmon is the best)
isocolon
empezar lección
a series of similarly structured elements having the same length (veni, vidi, vici)
tricolon
empezar lección
three parallel elements of the same length occurring together in a series (veni, vidi, vici)
antithesis
empezar lección
juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas (it can’t be wrong if it feels so right)
climax
empezar lección
arrangement of words, phrases, clauses in an order of increasing importance
anastrophe
empezar lección
inversion of natural word order (troubles, everybody’s got)
parenthesis
empezar lección
insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow (wtrącenia)
apposition
empezar lección
addition of a coordinate, explanatory, descriptive elements (Einstein, perhaps the greatest of scientists, seemed not to master the physics of hair combing)
ellipsis
empezar lección
omission of a word or words readily implied by context
asyndeton
empezar lección
omission of conjuctions between a series of clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhytm (veni, vidi, vici)
brachylogia
empezar lección
omission of conjuctions between a series of words resulting in broken, hurried delivery (rise! eat! leave!)
polysyndeton (przeciwieństwo asyndeton)
empezar lección
a lot of conjuctions (and, and, and)
alliteration
empezar lección
repetition of the same letter or sound within nearby words (Why not Waste a Wild Weekend)
assonance
empezar lección
repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants/spółgłoski (bOmb the lAWn with hOtpOts)
polyptoton
empezar lección
repetition of words derived form the same root (feeding food)
anaphora
empezar lección
repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of succesive clauses
epistrophe (≠ anaphora)
empezar lección
repetition of the same words or group of words at the end
epanalepsis (≠ anadiplosis)
empezar lección
repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of the clause (Believe not your ears, but your eyes believe)
anadiplosis (≠ epanalepsis)
empezar lección
repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause (be loved, but love as well)
antimetabole
empezar lección
repetition of the same words in reverse grammatical order (wieśniak z wsi wyjedzie, ale wieś z wieśniaka nigdy)
chiasmus
empezar lección
repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (it is boring to eat, to sleep is fulfilling)

Debes iniciar sesión para poder comentar.