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Blinn 18 19
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| image | a word or series of words that refers to any sensory experience; adds immediacy to literary language |
| imagery | the collective set of images in a poem or other literary work |
| visual imagery | imagery that refers to the sense of sight |
| auditory imagery | imagery that refers to the sense of hearing |
| tactile imagery | imagery that refers to the sense of touch |
| haiku | a Japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables; serious and spiritual in tone, relying mostly on imagery, and usually set in one of four seasons |
| simile | a comparison of two things with like, as, or than or a verb such as resembles; usually compares two things that initially seem unlike but are shown to have a significant resemblance |
| metaphor | a statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense it is not; it creates a close association between two entities and underscores their important similiarity |
| implied metaphor | a metaphor that uses neither connectives nor the verb to be |
| mixed metaphor | usually unintentional combing of two or more incompatible metaphors, resulting in ridiculousness or nonsense |
| personification | the endowing of a thing, an animal, or an abstract term with human characteristics |
| apostrophe | a direct address to someone or something (a person, a dead or absent person, an inanimate object, an abstract thing or spirit |
| overstatement | hyperbole, exaggeration used to emphasize a point |
| understatement | an ironic figure of speech that deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the case |
| metonymy | a figure of speech that substitutes a thing for another Example: white house decided instead of President |
| synecdoche | the use of a significant part for a whole; wheels for car as an example |
| paradox | a statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense |
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