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Karteikarten von vanillalove, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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| Frage | Antworten |
| simile | the comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using "like" or "as" |
| personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| allusion | a brief reference to a person; place; historical event; or piece of literature |
| imagery | visual symbolism |
| foreshadowing | the uses of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature |
| symbol | one object representing another object or idea |
| alliteration | the occurrence of the same latter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words (Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper) |
| epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned |
| repitition | repeating the same word, phrase, idea, to create a larger impact |
| heroic quest | 1. the call to adventure 2. threshold into their new life 3. temptations and challenges 4. confrontation/abyss 5. atonement/payback 6. return |
| Tragedy (4 things to know it's a tragedy) | 1. a final impressive disaster that happens to the main character 2. an unforseen/unexpected disaster 3. it commands respect and sympathy from the audience 4. it causes distress |
| Hubris | excessive pride/self confidence |
| Motif | something significant that occurs repeatedly through the story |
| pun | a play on words (ex. don't trust people that do acupuncture, they're back stabbers) |
| iambic pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable |
| couplet | two lines of a verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit |
| soliloquy | a speech that a character gives to himself on stage to reveal his internal thoughts to the audience |
| aside | when a character on stage speaks directly to the audience |
| tragic flaw | a trait/characteristic that leads to a hero's downfall |
| dramatic irony | occurs when the audiences or reader knows more than what the characters do |
| situational irony | involves a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite to what was intended. Outcome = contrary to what was expected |
| verbal irony | when a person says or writes one thing but means another (basically sarcasm) |
| oxymoron | figure of speech where two words that don't seem to go together are combined to produce a rhetorical effect |
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