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Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Visual Imagery | type of imagery that appeals to the sense of sight. |
| Auditory Imagery | word choices that appeal to the ear, that help you "hear" the words |
| olfactory imagery | appeals to the sense of smell. Ex: The rotten hippo-meat filled the jungle air with its sour, putrid smell. |
| Assonance | similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words, especially in a line of verse |
| gustatory imagery | imagery appealing to the sense of taste |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry |
| tactile imagery | type of imagery pertaining to the sense of touch |
| Enjambment | a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next |
| kinetic imagery | imagery that appeals to movement |
| Allusion | figure of speech which makes brief reference to an historical or literary figure, event, or object; a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work |
| Alliteration | sound device; repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds |
| Repetition | a literary device in which a word or phrase is used multiple times |
| Apostrophe | addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present. |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents anything else. |
| Connotation | The emotional implications that a word may carry; implied or associated meaning for a particular word |
| Denotation | The specific, exact meaning of a word; a dictionary definition |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part |
| Simile | A figure of speech which takes the form of comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis comparison can be found and which uses words like or as in the comparison |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration for effect and emphasis, overstatement; figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration occurs |
| Personification | figure of speech in which inanimate objects are given qualities of speech |
| Lilotes | a type of meiosis (understatement) in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary |
| Paradox | a statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense, yet can be seen as perhaps true when viewed from another angle |
| Metonymy | substituting a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it. |
| Oxymoron | technique used to produce an effect by a seeming self-contradiction. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words "like" or "as." |
Created by:
Quincy A Drakeford
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