UIL Vocab Part 6

the group of 19th century writers from New York who finally gained international acclaim for their literary works.

• Knickerbocker

• Free Writers

• Koine

• Liminality

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A common dialect of the Greek language that influenced the speech of all Greeks.

• Litotes

• Koine

• Leonine Rhyme

• Knickerbocker

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry, usually in the middle and at the end of the line

• Litotes

• Metaphor

• Lost Generation

• Leonine Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a period during which participant has left one place but not yet entered the next

• Koine

• Mock Epic

• Liminality

• Metalepsis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite

• Lost Generation

• Counterclaim

• Claim

• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A group of American writers that rebelled against America's lack of cosmopolitan culture in the early 20th century. Many moved to cultural centers such as London in Paris in search for literary freedom. Prominent writers included T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway among others.

• Malaphorism

• Writer's Revolution

• Lost Generation

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar (The doctor wrote a subscription)

• Metalepsis

• Malaphorism

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The compounding of multiple figures of speech.

• Mock Epic

• Minimalism

• Muses

• Metalepsis

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

figure of speech comparing two different things

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Similie

• Met Gala

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").

• Naturalism

• Metonymy

• Nemesis

• Minimalism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D