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Sones literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration, also known as an overstatement |
| Idiom | A phrase that is worded oddly, yet everyone understands. Example, it's raining cats and dogs. |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the five senses- great descriptions of a sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. |
| in media res | Latin for "in the middle of things" - Kitchen boy starts in the middle of the story |
| Irony | A contrast between what should be and what seems to be, a difference between expectationa nd fulfillment. |
| Dramatic irony | when the audience knows something about the plot the characters don't know |
| Cosmic irony | the depiction or fate creating a painful contrast between our purposeful activity and its ultimate meaningless |
| situational irony | a technique in qwhich the logical outcome doesn't happen. illogical, unforseen outcme |
| verbal irony | saying one thing. meaning anther. Example: ***is hot. JK |
| Juxtaposition | Placing unexpected combinations of words or ideas side by side. Example: SOL and CUTE lolol |
| Legend | a widely told story of the past that might or might not be true. Example: Once, ***and ***went to homecoming together. |
| Litotes | a deliberate understatement in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite. Example: Queen victoria saying "We are not amused." o.o |
| Metaphor | Comparing 2 unlike things- no like or as. Ex Juilet is the sun!! |
| Metonymy | Figure of speech where something is referred to by one o its attributes. Ex "Friends,countrymen..lend me your earfs." Or when one term is substitued for something that closely resembles it.Ex:"The White House released a statement today." Whitehouse=gvtmnt |
| Mood | The feeling that the audience has while reading a work of literature. Mainly created by the settng. Ex: It was a dark and stormy night, the night that emma got her first tooth pulled. |
| Motif | A recurring idea, structure, contrast, or divice that develops or informs the major themes of a work of lterature |
| myth | A story about the origins of one's beliefs and practices of culture. Ex: In alabama, in pecan season, we'd roll out a pecan pie that covered half the united states. |
| Onomatopoeia | crunch bang slam pop |
| Oxymoron | The association of two contradictory terms. Ex: JUMBO SHRIMP :D (adrian) LOL |
| paradox | a phrase that seems to be contradictory et there's some truth behind it. Ex: Things will get worse befroe they get better. |
| Paralipsis | drawing attention to something by claiming not to mentino it. "I will not tell you that the mayor did a terrible job this year" |
| Parallelism | the use of similar grammatical structures or word order in two or more sentences, clauses, or phrases to suggest a comparison or contrast between them. |
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