Monika's+Vocabulary+terms

Monika's Vocabulary Dictionary. A**postrophe** is when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.


 * Synesthesia;** a neurologically based phenomenon, in which stimulation of one sensory or sognitive pathway leads to an automatic, involunteerric exsperience in a second sensory.


 * Hyperbole**; a figure of speach in which statements are exageratted.


 * Understatement;** a form of speach in which a lesser exspression would used then what would be exspected.


 * Allusion;** references a well know place or person, event, literary work, or work of art.


 * Metaphor;** language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects.


 * Simile;** compares things using like or as.


 * Impled Metaphor;** a more subtle way of compareing things.


 * Analogy;** transferring information from a particular subject to another subject. the argument of one figure against another.
 * Litotes;** when the speaker, instead of making a certain claim, claims it's opposite.


 * Metenymy;** use of a word for a concept with which the orginal concept behind this word is associated.

-denotes a part of something on reference to the whole thing. -denotes a thing as reference to it -denotes a class of something as in reference to the general class -denotes a general class in reference to a more specific class. -denotes a material in reference to the object from which that material is made.
 * Synecdoche;** a figure of speach that


 * Paradox;** an apparently true statement or group of true statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation that defies intuition.


 * oxymoron;** combines two normally contradicting things.