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Flashcards by Natasha Gidluck, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Natasha Gidluck
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two things without using like or as |
| Simile | A comparison between two things using like or as |
| Synecdoche | Substituting part of something for the whole |
| Metonymy | Substituting a thing for a closely related thing |
| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that is extended over the whole length of the story |
| Allegory | A narrative that works as an extended metaphor to convey a message |
| Personification | Using human characteristics for inanimate objects |
| Verbal Irony | Sarcasm: when the meaning is opposite to the words |
| Situational Irony | When the outcome of events is opposite to the expectations |
| Dramatic Irony | A situation where the audience knows something that the character does not |
| Hyperbole | A great exaggeration of something |
| Understatement | Deemphasizing a situation |
| Motif | A recurring idea within a story |
| Theme | The general message or subject of the writing |
| Symbol | An object that represents or stands for something else |
| Literary Allusion | When a story calls to mind a piece from classic literature |
| Historical Allusion | When a story calls to mind a historical event |
| Biblical Allusion | When a story calls to mind a piece from the bible |
| Mythological Allusion | When a story calls to mind a piece from mythology |
| Imagery | A description that provokes one of the five senses. Can be visual, aural, olfactory, tactile, or taste |
| Alliteration | When the same sound or letters continue in a series of words |
| Assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound in poetry |
| Consonance | The repetition of a consonant sound in poetry |
| Metre | The measure of syllables in poetry including stressed and unstressed syllables. Iambic is unstressed followed by stressed syllables |
| Rhyme | Words that have the same ending sound |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyming words within the same line of poetry |
| Rhythm | Beats discernible in poetry that are not intentionally structured |
| Repetition | Using a word several time to bring emphasis to it |
| Epimone | The repetition of a question or phrase |
| Diction | The significance in the kinds of words chosen. Euphemistic, technical, and slang are examples |
| Tone | The voice, mood or implication conveyed by words |
| Defamiliarization | Describing a familiar thing in an unfamiliar way—like it is alienated |
| Parallelism | Something that corresponds to another thing in some way |
| Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of another thing |
| Oxymoron | Two words that are next to each other that directly contradict one another |
| Paradox | A situation that seems impossible but may actually be true |
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