VOCABULARY FOR OCTOBER 21

INVECTIVE – an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. (For example, in Henry IV, Part I, Prince Hal calls the large character of Falstaff “this sanguine coward, this bedpresser, this horseback breaker, this huge
hill of flesh.”)

SYNESTHESIA – when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. Ex: The sight of red ants makes you itchy. In literature, synesthesia refers to the practice of associating two or more different senses in the same image.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song title,“Taste the Pain,” is an example.

HYPOPHORA – Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one’s own question(s). A common usage is to ask the question at the beginning of a paragraph and then use the paragraph to answer it. You can use hypophora to raise questions which you think the reader obviously has on his/her mind and would like to see formulated and answered.
Ex. “When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

SIMPLE SENTENCE: A simple sentence, also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought. EXAMPLE: Julio goes to the library and studies every day.

COMPLEX SENTENCE: A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. EXAMPLE: The basketball players got on the bus because they had a game in Campinas.

COMPOUND SENTENCE: A sentence with two or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. EXAMPLE: Michelle speaks Spanish, and Jenny speaks Korean.

COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE: A sentence with two or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. EXAMPLE: Although we all love weekends, they go by too fast and they take too long to come again.