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. |