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LCC
Chap.3:Literary Language
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables. |
| Assonance | Generally, patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants. |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. |
| Connotation | The emotional implications and associations that words may carry. Meaning of word depends on usage. |
| Diction | Vocabulary which generally means words one at a time, and syntax which generally means word order |
| Dialogue | Conversation of two or more people. |
| Dialect | When the speech of two groups or of two persons representing two groups both speaking the same language exhibits very marked differences. |
| Denotation | The basic meaning of a word, independent of its emotional coloration or associations. |
| Figurative Language | Intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words. |
| Hyperbole (Overstatement) | Exaggeration. Used to heighten effect or it may be used to humor. |
| Imagery | The collection of images in a literary work. |
| Image | Originally a sculptured, cast, or modeled representation of a person. A literal and representation of a sensory experience or of an object that can be known by one or more of the senses. |
| Metaphor | An analogy identifying the object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second. |
| Metonymy | The substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that by their sound suggest their meaning. "hiss" "buzz" sizzle" |
| Paradox | A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true. |
| Personification | A figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities. |
| Symbol | something is itself and also stands for something else. |
| Symbolism | the use of one object to represent or suggest another. |
| Simile | A figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed |
| Synecdoche | A trope in which is a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part. |
| Transferred epithet | An adjective used to limit a noun that it really does not logically modify. |
| Understatement | A common figure of speech in which the literal sense of what it said falls detectably short the magnitude of what is being talked about. |
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