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| 4758397670 | Imagery | devices which appeal to the senses: visual, tactile, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, kinetic; a group of words that create a mental "picture" (ie., animal, water, death, plant, decay, war, etc.); devices which appeal to the senses: visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, kinetic. | 0 | |
| 4758397671 | Auditory Imagery | sound imagery. It appeals to the sense of hearing. Ex: "The tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing...as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian church community." | 1 | |
| 4758397672 | Gustatory Imagery | imagery appealing to the sense of taste. | 2 | |
| 4758397673 | Kinetic Imagery | imagery that appeals to movement. Ex: The flies flew around our heads methodically, never ceasing their obnoxious spinning and swirling. | 3 | |
| 4758397674 | Olfactory Imagery | appeals to the sense of smell. Ex: The rotten hippo-meat filled the jungle air with its sour, putrid smell. | 4 | |
| 4758397675 | Tactile Imagery | type of imagery pertaining to the sense of touch. Ex: The fuzzy puppy's warm wet tongue covered my face. | 5 | |
| 4758397676 | Visual Imagery | type of imagery that appeals to the sense of sight. Ex: From the lighthouse tower shone a glowing beam that streaked across the black waters. | 6 | |
| 4758397677 | Irony | surprising, amusing, or interesting contrast between reality and expectation. In irony of situation, the result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected. In dramatic irony, the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. In verbal irony, the contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant. A character may refer to a plan as "brilliant," while actually meaning that (s)he thinks the plan is foolish. Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony. | 7 | |
| 4758397678 | Juxtaposition | the positioning of ideas or images side by side for emphasis or to show contrast—ex: In Romeo & Juliet, love and hate are juxtaposed as the two teenagers' love is forced into the same arena as the families' hatred. | 8 | |
| 4758397679 | Lampoon | a biting satire that makes its subject appear ludicrous | 9 |
