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Literary Techniques
English Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allegory | A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
| Connotation | The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
| Emotive Language | Words that describe feelings and emotions |
| Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next |
| Figurative language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
| Flashback | An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action. |
| Foreshadowing | Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
| Image | A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. |
| Imagery | The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
| Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. |
| Metaphor | A comparison between essentially unlike things |
| Narrator | The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe |
| Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. |
| Rhyme | The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. |
| Rhythm | The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though |
| Symbol | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
| Tone | The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work |
Created by:
Brooke Webster
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