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Flashcards by Phoebe Joy Garcia, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Phoebe Joy Garcia
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Alliteration | the first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow; the cold, crisp, crust of clean, clear ice. |
| Assonance | the same vowel sound is repeated but the consonants are different; he passed her a sharp, dark glance, shot a cool, foolish look across the room. |
| Colloquial | language that is used in speech with an informal meaning; 'chill', 'out of this world', 'take a rain check'. |
| Dissonance | a discordant combinations of sounds; the clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves against the quay. |
| Enjambment | a device used in poetry where a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse. This technique is often used to maintain a sense of continuation from one stanza to another. |
| Hyperbole | exaggerating something for literary purposes which is not meant to be taken literally; we gorged on the banquet of beans on toast. |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like the noise it is describing: 'splash', 'bang', 'pop', 'hiss'. |
| Pathos | language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow. |
| Oxymoron | Where two words normally not associated are brought together: 'cold heat' 'bitter sweet'. |
| Rhythm | a repetitive beat or meter within a poem. |
| Symbolism | often objects, colours, sounds and places work as symbols. they can sometimes give us a good insight into the themes. |
| Tone | the writer's tone or voice or atmosphere or feeling that pervades the text, such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety, dissatisfaction, regret, anger. Different elements of writing can help to create this; long sentences or verses, with assonance (repeated vowel sounds), tend to create a sad, melancholic mood. Short syllabic, alliterative lines can create an upbeat, pacy atmosphere. |
| Personification | attributing a human quality to a thing or idea: the moon calls me to her darkened world. |
| Word choice | sometimes called 'register', this is the common thread in an author's choice of language. Authors may use words commonly associated with religion, words describing sensory experience such as touch, smell or colour or 'mood' words that reflect a character's state of mind. |
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