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Advanced Lit Terms
Advanced LIterary Theory Terms by Hayden
Question | Answer |
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Synecdoche | The use of a significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa. |
Metonymy | Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. |
Assonance | The repetition of 2 or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme. |
Objective Correlative | a literary term referring to a symbolic article used to provide explicit, rather than implicit, access to such traditionally inexplicable concepts as emotion or colour |