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ADV ENGLISH FINALS
english final figurative lang. and poetry terms 6/26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | what a word means by past use or association |
| imagery | the representation of sense experience in language |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sound at the BEGINNING of words |
| consonance | repetition of consonants ANYWHERE in the word |
| difference between consonance and alliteration | alliteration= always at the beginning of a word consonance= can be anywhere in a word |
| apostrophe | an absent person is addressed as if he or she is present |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| understatement | opposite of hyperbole |
| inversion | inverted word order used to make a rhyme |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things by saying one is the other |
| extended metaphor | more than one line of metaphor |
| implied metaphor | subtle hint |
| mood | feeling that is created by a poem |
| tone | writer's technique (author's attitude towards the subject) |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the sounds they suggest |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| repetition | the repeating of key words or phrases for emphasis (NOT VOWELS) |
| rhyme | last words in a series of lines that have the same vowel sound |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using a word that sets off the comparison (like or as) |
| symbolism | a person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself |
| cultural symbol | something that stands for an idea and everyone in the society understands what it means (flag, cross, etc) |
| literary symbol | something that acquires its symbolic meaning in the context in which is used (its meaning is unique to the individual word or at least to the writer) |
| end rhyme | occurs at the end of the line |
| internal rhyme | occurs somewhere between beginning and end of line |
| beginning rhyme | occurs in the first syllable of the line |
| stanza | a group of two or more lines of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | refers to pattern of rhyme within stanza of poem or poem (AB AB AB) |
| meter | the recurrence of a rhythmic pattern in lines of poetry, a rhythm established by the arrangement of accents or accented syllables at equal intervals |
| scansion | the process of marking accented and unaccented syllables in a line of verse, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting any significant variations in the pattern |
| foot | the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse |
| quatrain | stanza of 4 lines |
| iambic pentameter | 5 iambs per line |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| unaccented symbol | U |
| accented symbol | / |
| idiom | phrase that would normally not be straight forward |
| ex (fig. lang) in a summer season when soft was the sun | alliteration |
| ex (fig. lang) she screamed at her car multiple times for not working | apostrophe |
| ex (fig. lang) so don't displease or tease a weasel | assonance |
| ex (fig. lang) her smile lit up the room | hyperbole |
| ex (fig. lang) next year will be difference exceptionally new, we will say "Hello" and friends we'll make a few | inversion |
| ex (fig. lang) she is liberty | metaphor |
| ex (fig. lang) Crash! went the apartment upstairs | onomatopoeia |
| ex (fig. lang) a wind that hides around the bends | personification |
| ex (fig. lang) the moon this night is like a silver sickle | simile |
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