Help
Options
Term
alliteration
click to flip
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't know
Term
analogy
Remaining cards (24)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Language Arts
Glossary of terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in close proximity |
| analogy | a comparison of any two things based upon similar categories |
| assonance | a word that means the opposite of another word |
| clause | Repetition of vowel sounds or patterns of vowel sounds, including initial vowel sounds, followed by different consonant sounds. Assonance is NOT true rhyme because the associated consonants differ. |
| fable | A brief story featuring characters whose decisions and actions teach the reader a moral lesson. The characters are most often, but not always, personified animals or groups of animals. |
| figurative meaning | the meaning of a word or phrase as understood metaphorically, imaginatively, rather than literally, physically. |
| genus (pl. genera) | a category of objects that is divided into subcategories (species) |
| idiom | A phrase or clause that has acquired cultural meaning separate from its original context. The meaning is no longer tied to the actual words but to the characteristic of the situation that can be shared by other situations. |
| literal meaning | the meaning of a word or phrase as known through the common, accepted understanding of the words in reality |
| litotes (LIE-tuh-teez) | a figure of speech that uses a negated antonym to create an understatement |
| parable | a brief story that teaches a moral lesson through a comparison of the characters' decisions and actions |
| parallelism | when two or more words, phrases, or clauses repeat the same parts of speech patterns in similar order for a similar purpose |
| phrase | a group of words that does NOT contain both a subject and a verb and can be used as a single part of speech |
| pleonasm (PLEE-uh-naz-um) | a figure of speech that uses intentional redundancy to emphasize a point to create a humorous effect |
| proportional analogy | a comparison between at least two pairs of dissimilar things based upon similar categories such that "a is to b as c is to d" |
| proverb (HEBREW) | a concise line of Hebrew poetry; typically formed by two versets, or halves, which together reveal the meaning of the moral lesson |
| rhyme | a repetition of the same sound of the final syllable of two or more words |
| simile | an explicit comparison, signified by the words like or as |
| species | a subcategory or object that belongs to a broader category (genus) |
| standard form (a:b::c:d) | a formula for writing analogies where each letter (a,b,c,d,...) represents a word or group of words (term) |
| synecdoche (sih-NECK-doe-kee) | the substitution of a part of an object for the whole, or vice versa, and the substitution of a species for the genus, or vice versa |
| synecdoche by part | the substitution of a part of an object for the whole |
| synecdoche by species | the substitution of a species for the genus |
| synonym | a word that means exactly the same or nearly the same thing as another word |
| term | the word (or groups of words) that replaces each letter in a standard form analogy |
Created by:
Kari'sClass
Popular Academic Vocabulary sets