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Lit Terms Pt. 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| is the use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less distasteful or offensive than another. | Euphemism |
| occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other. Although a statement may appear illogical, impossible or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth. | Paradox |
| consists of the words or a phrase appealing to the sense—the descriptive diction-a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas. | Imagery |
| is language which makes use of certain devices called "figures of speech," most of which are techniques for comparing dissimilar objects, to achieve effects beyond the range of literal language. | Figurative language |
| differs from a regular metaphor in that it is sustained for several lines or sentences or throughout a work. | Extended (controlling) metaphor |
| is a form of metaphor. In this, the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated. (For instance, a "suit" is a business executive.) | Metonymy |
| is a form of personification in which the absent, or dead, are spoken to as if present, and the inanimate, as if animate. Example: O storm, be not so angry. | Apostrophe |
| a sequence of related events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem. | Plot |
| is the quality of a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events. | Suspense |
| person or character telling the story. | Narrator |
| how the author chooses to tell the story; the perspective from which the author presents the story; Some technical terms for different include omniscient and limited; refer to the bias of the person through whose eyes the reader experiences the action. | Point of view |
| is the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words. | Assonance |
| is the repetition of a consonant sound within or at the end of a series of words to produce a harmonious effect. | Consonance |
| is a play on words that are either identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. Puns may have serious as well as humorous uses. | Pun |
| is a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression | Oxymoron |
| is a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words in the language or dialect of a people, region, class, etc. | Idiom |
| is the use of any object, person, place, or action that not only has a meaning in itself but also stands for something larger than itself, such as quality, attitude, belief, or value. There are two basic types, universal and contextual . | Symbolism |
| is a term that describes a pattern or strand of imagery or symbolism in a work of literature. | Motif |
| is a figure of speech in which emphasis is achieved by deliberate exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect. | Hyperbole |
| is the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. | Understatement |
| is an expressed comparison between two unlike objects using the words like or as. | Simile |
| more involved, more ornate than the typical simile. When trying to make something new and strange understandable to their audience, authors compare it to something familiar. | Epic simile (homeric) |
| is a figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another; it is a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as. | Metaphor |
| is a form of metaphor. In this, a part of something is used to signify the whole. (For instance, "Washington" as used to describe the United States Government.) | Synecdoche |
| is a figure of speech and kind of metaphor in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities or action. | Personification |
| is a form of personification that attributes human emotion and conduct to natural concepts. Examples: A storm is angry; clouds are sullen. | Pathetic Fallacy |
| the central message of a literary work. It is not the same as a subject, which can be expressed in a word or two: courage, survival, war, pride, etc. The theme is the idea the author wishes to convey about that subject. | Theme |
| the idea or thing that the poem concerns or represents. Think of the subject as what the poem is about. See Theme for further distinction. | Subject |
| the moment in a play or story at which a crisis reaches its highest intensity and is resolved. | Climax |
| is a term that describes the tension between opposing forces in a work of literature and is an essential element of plot. | Conflict |
| the moment is a play or story preceding the climax. | Rising Action |
| is the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action. | Foreshadowing |
| is a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event. | Flashback |
| the time and place in which the action of a story takes place. | Setting |
| all refer to a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader. | Shift in point of view/ Rhetorical Shift / Turn |
| a specific point of view in understanding or judging things or events, especially one that show them in their true relations to one another. | Perspective |
| are stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound. | Sound devices |
| is the practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same consonant sound. | Alliteration |
| is the measured, patterned arrangement of syllables according to stress and length in a poem. | Meter |
| is the use of words whose sounds seem to express or reinforce their meanings. Examples: Hiss, Boom. | Onomatopoeia |
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