Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
140 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
a, an |
without/opposite of |
|
ab |
away from |
|
ad |
toward |
|
amphi,ambi |
both sides/all around |
|
anim |
|
|
ante |
before |
|
anthro |
man |
|
anti |
against |
|
aqua |
water |
|
archa |
ancient |
|
archos |
leader |
|
aster |
star |
|
aud |
sound |
|
auto |
self |
|
avi |
bird |
|
bene |
well/good |
|
bi |
two |
|
bib |
book |
|
bio |
life |
|
card |
heart |
|
cent |
hundred |
|
chrom |
color |
|
chrom |
time |
|
cide |
kill |
|
circum |
around |
|
corpus |
body |
|
counter |
against |
|
cracy |
rule |
|
credo |
belief |
|
DEC |
ten |
|
demos |
people |
|
derm |
skin |
|
di |
two |
|
dict |
speak |
|
dia |
across |
|
dis |
not/apart |
|
don |
give |
|
ego |
self/I |
|
ex |
out |
|
fact |
make |
|
fore |
in front of/earlier |
|
fract |
break |
|
frater |
brother |
|
gen |
birth |
|
geo |
earth |
|
graph |
write |
|
hetero |
mixed/unlike |
|
homo |
same/alike |
|
in,im |
not |
|
inter |
between |
|
intra |
within |
|
legis |
law |
|
less |
without |
|
lexis |
word |
|
liber |
freedom |
|
locus |
place |
|
log |
thought |
|
luna |
moon |
|
macro |
large |
|
man |
hand |
|
mania |
obsession |
|
mar |
ocean |
|
mater |
mother |
|
meter |
measure |
|
micro |
small |
|
mid |
half |
|
mono |
one |
|
mortis |
death |
|
neo |
new |
|
nomen |
name |
|
oct |
eight |
|
omni |
every |
|
pater |
father |
|
path |
feel |
|
ped |
foot |
|
pent |
five |
|
peri |
around |
|
philo |
love |
|
phon |
sound |
|
polis |
city |
|
poly |
many |
|
port |
carry |
|
post |
after |
|
pre |
before |
|
pro |
in favor of |
|
psyche |
mind |
|
quad |
four |
|
quint |
five |
|
scope |
examne |
|
scrib |
write |
|
sept |
seven |
|
solus |
alone |
|
subter |
under |
|
syn |
togetehr |
|
tele |
distance |
|
ter |
earth |
|
trans |
across |
|
tri |
three |
|
uni |
one |
|
vac |
empty |
|
third person limited |
the narrator usually focus all their attention to one character; sees what happens with all other characters but only knows ones thoughts and feelings |
|
foreshadowing |
hinting about what is gong to happen later on in a story |
|
logical fallacy |
weakness or flaw in an argument |
|
equivocation |
when someone purposely slides between two meanings of a word to confuse audience |
|
thesis |
statement in the introduction, its what you will be proving in the rest of your essay; argument |
|
direct quote |
using someone else's exact words in your writing, must be iced |
|
attributive tag |
a short phrase that introduces someones quote or idea |
|
citation |
when someone else's work is mentioned; it needs a citation, you site the source |
|
implicit |
implied but not dirrectly stated |
|
explicit |
directly stated |
|
dramatic irony |
audience knows more about what is happening than characters in story |
|
situational irony |
when the exact opposite of what is supposed to happen happens; a fire extinguisher is on fire |
|
satire |
the use of irony or sarcasm to imitate something |
|
hyperbole |
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
|
adjective |
modifies noun |
|
adverb |
modifies verb |
|
preposition |
shows relationship between things |
|
pronoun |
replaces noun or phrase |
|
predicate |
part of sentence that contains main verb |
|
dependent clause |
has both subject and verb cannot stand by itself as a sentence |
|
independent clause |
has subject and verb and can stand by itself as a sentence |
|
adjective clase |
who, whom, whose, which, that, when , where , why |
|
adverb clause |
until, once, because, answers how, when, or why |
|
prepositional phrase |
under, over, around,behind,through |
|
participial phrase |
describes the state of the sentence; stuffed from eating cake, julia took a shower |
|
appositive phrase |
acts to the noun; julia, the blonde, ate cake. |
|
fragment |
incomplete sentence |
|
parallel structure |
using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. |
|
sonnet |
14 line poem, rhymes |
|
haiku |
a short poem that captures a single moment |
|
elegy |
a poem about greif or death |
|
epic |
a long narrative poem about heroic deeds |
|
ballad |
a poem that tells a story |
|
meter |
the rhythm of language |
|
couplet |
two lines of poetry in a row that go together |
|
alliteration |
a poetic or literary device used by using words with the same first letter; Julia Jammed Jigalou Jellies into her Jumping John |
|
Ambiguity |
when something can be understood in more than one way and its not clear which way is correct |
|
allegory |
a work of art that has a second hidden meaning |
|
allusion |
when a work of art makes a indirect reference to something the author hopes the audence to know |
|
phrase |
i need to look that up |