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final lit terms
literary terms
Question | Answer |
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any sensory detail | imagery |
a figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatment. | litote |
a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something. | metonymy |
a recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event. | motif |
combines two apparently contradictory elements. | oxymoron |
series of phrases, each connected by conjunctions | polysendeton |
a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true | paradox |
when a part is used to signify a whole | synecdoche |
a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a litery work that figurative represents or "stands for" something else | symbol |
a verse form consisting of three-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the first and third of the next | terza rima |