Vocab Quiz Group GH

Cacophony

A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

A nice plotted plant

Caesura

A break between words within a metrical foot

A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education

Characterization

The act of describing the individual quality of a person or thing

A piece of work that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

Chiasmus

Figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas are expressed by parallelism of words that are opposites of each other

Figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point

Circumlocution

Drawing a circle around you to protect you from Sea Bears

Specific idea with multiple words than directly evoking it with fewer or apter words

Consonance

The recurrence of similar sounds in close proximity

Agreement of compatibility between opinions or actions

Deus Ex Machina

The 2015 blockbuster showcasing a young programmer who participates in a ground- breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence

Unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially contrived plot device in a play or novel

Doppelganger

An apparition or double of a living person

An observations that contains a general truth

Ekphrastic

Poem that contains a vivid description of a scene or work of art

A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet

Epithet

An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses

Euphemism

A mild or indirect word or expression substitute for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

A brass instrument which is also known as the baritone

Euphony

The quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words

A very typical example of a certain person or thing

Hubris

The long bone in the upper arm that is located between the elbow joint and the shoulder

Extreme pride and arrogance

Hyperbaton

The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

Figure of speech that consits of an alteration of the syntactic order of the words in a sentence

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements or claims not mean to be taken literally

A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

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