Week #6 Literary/rhetorical vocabulary

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." MLK Jr.

This is an example of

• anaphora

• cacophony

• utopia

• dispepsia

Harsh or unpleasant sounds

• euphony

• cacophony

• infamy

• litany

The repitition of final sounds, or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words (made/wood).

• assonance

• alliteration

• imagery

• consonance

The concluding section of a work, and a speech that comes at the end of a play usually requesting the appreciation of the audience.

• prologue

• epilogue

• monologue

• dialogue

The technique of introducing material into a narrative that prepares the reader for future events, actions, or revelations.

• flashback

• synechdoche

• foreshadowing

• hyperbaton

A contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality

• irony

• monotony

• cacaphony

• foreshadwoing

When someone says something but really menas the opposite

• complicated irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

A discrepancy between what someone expects to happen and what actually happens.

• complicated irony

• verbal irony

• situaltion irony

• dramatic irony

Incongruity between what appears to be true and what is actually true.

• situational irony

• complicated irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

Hiss and sizzle are examples of what?

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• cacophony

• hyperbole