Vocab 1
A comparison of any two things based upon similar categories.
What is an Analogy?
Repetition of vowel sounds, including initial vowel sounds, followed by different consonant sounds.
What is Assonance?
A brief story featuring characters, usually animals, whose decisions and actions teach the reader a moral lesson.
What is a Fable?
A brief story that teaches a moral lesson through comparison of characters' decisions and actions.
What is a Parable?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in close proximity.
What is Alliteration?
An explicate comparison, signified by the words like or as.
What is a Simile?
Two words with the same final consonant and/or vowel sound.
What is a "Rhyme"?
A concise line of Hebrew poetry, typically formed by two versets, or halves, which together reveal the moral lesson.
What is a Proverb?
A word that means exactly the same or nearly the same thing as another words.
What is a Synonym?
A phrase/clause that has acquired a specific cultural meaning separate from its original context.
What is an Idiom?
A formula for writing analogies a:b::c:d
What is Standard Form?
A word that names the opposite of another word.
What is an Antonym?
The substitution of part of an object for the whole, or vice versa, and the substitution of a species for the genus, or visa versa.
What is Synecdoche.
A category of objects that is divided into subcategories.
What is Genus?
A subcategory or object that belongs to a broader category (genus)
What is a Species?
The word (or group of words) that replaces each letter in a standard form analogy.
What is a Term?
A comparison between at least two pairs of dissimilar things "a is to be as c is to d"
What is Proportional Analogy.
When two or more words, phrases or clauses repeat the same parts of speech.
What is Parallelism?
A figure of speech that uses a negated antonym to create an understatement.
What is a Litotes?
A figure of speech that uses intentional redundancy to emphasize a point or create a humorous effect.
What is Pleonasm?