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| 7383792613 | Allegory | an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story Hamilton Definition: a sustained and circumscribed analogy between a subject and an image to which it is compared Ex: Animal Farm | 0 | |
| 7383816323 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words Ex: Bed, Bath, & Beyond | 1 | |
| 7383828168 | Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical Ex: "Easy there, Romeo, I'm not ready to date anyone!" | 2 | |
| 7383844280 | Anaphora | a rhetorical device of repeating the same word or words at the start of two or more lines of poetry or successive phrases or sentences in prose. Hamilton Def: the intentional repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs --- used to cerate emphasis. Ex: "What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was they brain? What the anvil?" | 3 | |
| 7383895378 | Antithesis | a rhetorical device of contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, balancing against each other in parallel order/syntax. Ex: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." | 4 | |
| 7383922717 | Aphorism | a concise statement which expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme of balance Ex: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | 5 | |
| 7384008166 | Apostrophe | a rhetorical device in which an absent or imaginary person or an abstraction is directly addressed as though present Purpose: make abstract ideas more lifelike --allows for reflection Ex: "O me! O life!" | 6 | |
| 7384044068 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel so sounds between different consonants such as in neigh / fade Purpose: Gettin' in between! Creates musicality! Tone/Mood/Atmosphere | 7 | |
| 7396162427 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, So far from cheer and from your former state, That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must... (Shakespeare) | 8 | |
| 7396183458 | Caesura | a pause in a line of poetry created not by the meter, but by the natural speaking rhythm, sometimes coinciding with punctuation Ex: St. Agnes' Eve-- // Ah, // bitter chill it was! The owl, // for all his feathers, // was a-cold. | 9 | |
| 7396201334 | Cacophony | harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in prose; opposite of euphony Ex: Bunches and bunches Punches is thrown until you're frontless Oodles and Oodles Bang bullets at suckers noodles | 10 | |
| 7396228351 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts with the second being structurally reversed Ex: Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whearas good men eat and drink that they may live. | 11 | |
| 7396242952 | Colloquialism | Informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing Ex: Y'all is gonna go bananas when you hear that new jump-off | 12 | |
| 7396258425 | Complaint | a lyric poem of lament, regret, and sadness which may explain the speaker's mood, describe its cause, discuss remedies, and appeal for help | 13 | |
| 7396266842 | Conceit | an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are compared Ex: Romeo compares crying Juliet to a storm | 14 | |
| 7396280756 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word Ex: home/politician/vulture/dog | 15 | |
| 7396309651 | Consonance | Through the final consonant in several stressed syllables agree, the vowel sounds that precede them are different | 16 | |
| 7396331637 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 17 | |
| 7396338665 | Diction | word choice | 18 | |
| 7396338666 | Dissonance | the grating of sounds that are harsh or do not go together | 19 | |
| 7396343736 | Elegy | a formal poem focusing on death or mortality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person | 20 | |
| 7396352562 | Ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context | 21 | |
| 7396365186 | End-stopped line | a line of poetry that ends when the grammatical unit ends. | 22 | |
| 7396373555 | Enjambment | french for "a striding over" describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continue onto the next line. In enjambment, the lack of completion creates pressure (or flow) to move to the next line | 23 | |
| 7396393279 | Epigram | a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose that either stands alone or is part of a larger work; may also refer to a short poem of this type Ex: Little strokes Fell great oaks -Ben Franklin | 24 | |
| 7396412661 | Euphemism | an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant Ex: passed away for finally died | 25 | |
| 7396427884 | Euphony | a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony | 26 | |
| 7396445150 | Exemplum | a brief tale used in medieval times to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson | 27 | |
| 7396459711 | Foil | a character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character | 28 | |
| 7396465681 | Free verse | poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without rhyme | 29 | |
| 7396468605 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis Ex: almost every (mis)use of literally | 30 | |
| 7396482745 | Idyll | a short descriptive narrative, usually a poem, about an idealized country life | 31 | |
| 7396488475 | Internal rhyme | a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry Ex: while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping -poe | 32 | |
| 7396507843 | Irony | a situation or statement where the truth is the opposite of appearances | 33 | |
| 7396516251 | Litotes | a type of understatement in which something affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite | 34 | |
| 7396526876 | Lyric | a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story | 35 | |
| 7396545155 | Metonomy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated not an unrelated metaphor, but incorporates some related element | 36 | |
| 7396566713 | Motif | a standard theme or dramatic situation which recurs in various works | 37 | |
| 7396573548 | Mood | the atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion/feeling from the audience | 38 | |
| 7396588355 | Non sequitur | an inference that does not logically follow from the premise/context | 39 | |
| 7396592538 | Ode | a long lyric poem, usually serious and elevated in tone; often written as praise to someone/thing | 40 | |
| 7397460651 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from the imitation of natural sounds Ex:Boom! Whup! | 41 | |
| 7397477898 | Oxymoron | an expression in which two seemingly contradictory words are joined Ex: jumbo shrimp | 42 | |
| 7397487811 | Parable | a short tale that teaches a moral; similar to an allegory, but shorter | 43 | |
| 7397494629 | Paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning Ex: I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude -Thoreau | 44 | |
| 7397515802 | Pastoral | a poem about idealized rural life, or shepherds, or both aka idyll | 45 | |
| 7397520085 | Pathos | the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity or sorrow | 46 | |
| 7397524949 | Polysyndeton | the use of many conjunctions in arrow to achieve an overwhelming effect (rhythm/emphasis of connection) | 47 | |
| 7397545441 | Stock character | a standard character whose flatness and simplicity makes for easy audience-recognition Ex: wise old man | 48 | |
| 7397557686 | Syllepsis | the linking of one word with two other words in two strikingly different ways Ex: You held your breath and the door for me | 49 | |
| 7397578304 | Symbol | an object which is something in itself yet also represents something else Ex: the flag | 50 | |
| 7397582043 | Synecdoche | the use of one part of an object to represent the whole Ex: ABC = alphabet | 51 | |
| 7397588704 | Synesthesia | describing one type of sensation another's terms e.g. sounds as colors, taste as color Ex: Back to where the sun is silent | 52 | |
| 7397598752 | Syntax | the arrangement of words within a sentence - includes sentence length and complexity; variety and pattern of sentence form; inversion of natural word order; unusual juxtaposition; repetition; parallelism; use of active or passive voice; level of discourse | 53 | |
| 7397623647 | Tautology | needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding Ex: ran fast | 54 | |
| 7397640718 | Tone | the attitude of a writer toward the subject or audience | 55 | |
| 7397643447 | Understatement | the deliberate representation of something as less important than it really is | 56 |
