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Lit terms 4 Antigone
literary terms for Antigone
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
| Allusion | reference to a different story or myth in the story being read |
| Anaphora | repitition of a word of phrase at the beginning of a clause or phrase. |
| Apostrophe | direct address to an inanimate object or a dead or absent person who cannot respond. |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within nonrhyming words. |
| Asyndeton | lack of conjunctions to connect a series of words, phrases or clauses. (opposite of polysyndeton) |
| Catharsis | ritual purification of pollution |
| Chiasmus | words/phrases that are the reversed order of the first words or phrase. |
| Connotation | attitude or feeling associated with a word, in contrast to the word's denotation, which is its literal, or dictionary meaning. It may be negative, neutral or positive. |
| Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds near end of words |
| Didactic | a type of literature that teaches a lesson |
| Epithet | set of adjectives that are hypinated in front of a noun. |
| Euphenism | using mild/ gentle phrase instead of a blunt, painful or embarassing one to put something viewed as too negative/ graphic into a positive light. |
| Dramatic irony | when the audience knows more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening |
| Situational irony | when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected |
| Verbal irony | a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. |
| Litotes | understatement |
| Motif | conspicious recurring element such as an incident, a lit. device/ object, which appears frequently in a work of literature. |
| Paradox | an idea that doesn't make sense at first, but upon reflection becomes clear |
| Phillipic | speech that blames, accuses or insults a person or his ideas. |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words whose sounds echo their meanings. |
| Oxymoron | 2 opposite words next to each other that contradict each other |
| Polysyndeton | repeated use of conjunctions between words in a list (opposite of asyndeton) |
| Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds near end of words |
| Synechdoche | part to a whole substition |
| Symbolism | an object that represents something else |
| visual imagery | What something looks like |
| auditory imagery | what something sounds like |
| kinesthetic imagery | evokes a sense of movement or body position |
| olfactory imagery | what something smells like |
| gustatory imagery | what something tastes like |
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