| Question | Answer |
| Apostrophe | - absent/dead spoken to as if present
- inanimate as if animate |
| assonance | - repetition of accented vowel sounds
- eg. Cry/ side |
| Consonance | - repetition of a consonant sound
- eg. each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds |
| Diction | - word choice intended to convey effect |
| Figures of speech | - describes one thing in terms of other
- imaginative comparison
- usually simile, metaphor, and personification |
| Verbal irony | - speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite |
| Situational irony | - situation turns out differently from what one would expect
- twist often appropriate
- ie. Deep sea diver drowning in bathtub |
| Dramatic irony | - character says/does something different than what he/she thinks it means
- audience/ other characters understand full implications of speach
- ex. Oediphus curses murderer not realising that he himself is murderer |
| Metaphor | - comparison
- not using like/as |
| Motivation | - circumstance or set of circumstance that prompts character to act in certain way
- determines outcome of a situation |
| Narration | - telling a story in writing or speaking |
| Oxymoron | - form of paradox
- combines opposite pair of opposite terms into a /single/ expression |
| Paradox | - elements of a /statement/ contradict |
| Prosody | - study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
| Pun | - play on words
- words identical or similar in sound but have diff meanings |
| Sarcasm | - verbal irony
- person appears to be praising but is actually insulting |
| Synecdoche | - part if something> whole ex. all hands on deck
- container> the thing being contained ex. the pot is boiling
- material from which the object> the object its self ex. the quarterback tossed the pig skin |
| metonymy | - Part symbolizes whole
ex. White house |
| Syntax | - arrangement of words
- order of grammatical elements in sentence |
| Theme | - central message of a work |
| Subject | - expressed in one or two words |
| tone | - speaker's attitude toward a subject, character or audience |
| understatement | - opposite of hyperbole
- deliberately represents something as being much less that it really is |
| Allegory | - form of story in which the characters represent not only themselves, but also an abstract concept such as greed or jealousy or justice or peace. |
| anecdotal evidence | - Support for a thesis
- isolated and individual story
- Science prefers statistical evidence which is gathered over time and occurs in more than one instance and is, therefore, more credible. |
| blank verse | - unrhyming poetry w/ regular rhythm.
- Iambic pentameter: a pattern of stressed and unstressed beats that occur five times per line.
- Shakespeare |
| colloquialism | - Phrases or words that are used in informal conversational language and that are particular to a region are called colloquialisms. |
| denoument | -
Denouement is the set of events that occur after the climax of a plot. |
| dicadict | A didactic essay, for example, instructs or teaches what is considered to be morally right or proper behaviour. |
| direct presentation | In characterization, direct presentation is the specific labelling of a character traits by the author or narrator. |
| eponymous | mething, whether it be a novel or perfume, that has the same name as person, real or fictitious, that is associated with it. |
| epigram | inition is that it is a short witty poem and the other definition is that it is a short witty saying. |
