Language Terms

Cards (20)

  • Words, ideas, feelings or emotions that are all associated with a particular word are known as CONNOTATIONS
  • Words used to join phrases or clauses together are known as CONJUNCTIONS.
  • The use of words which suggest stillness is STATIVITY.
  • Visual Imagery: imagery that relates to what we can see.
  • Auditory Imagery: imagery that relates to what we can hear. 
  • Tactile Imagery: imagery that relates to what we can touch.
  • Olfactory Imagery: imagery that relates to what we can smell.
  •  Gustatory Imagery: imagery that relates to what we can taste.
  • Kinesthetic Imagery: imagery that relates to movement or action.
  • anaphora+epiphora/epistrophe = symploce
  • ironic expression with an understatement is... litotes
  • 'holy of holies' is an example of what? (not alliteration/assonance)
    polyptoton
  • two line stanza - couplet
  • three line stanza - tercet
  • four line stanzas - quatrain
  • five line stanza - cinquain
  • eight line stanza - octave
  • seven line stanza - septenary
  • ten line stanza - decastich
  • the phrase 'he took his hat and his vacation' is an example of what?
    zeugma