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| 2331480151 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which two completely different things or objects are compared. | 0 | |
| 2331480152 | Personification | A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea, or animal is given human attributes. | 1 | |
| 2331481038 | Understatement | This is when a writer makes a situation less important than it really is. "The test was okay", when it was super hard. | 2 | |
| 2331482718 | Overstatement | When a writer makes a situation seem more important than it truly is. | 3 | |
| 2331482719 | Oxymoron | When two contradictory words are placed together, but can still make sense. ¨ He possessed a cold fire in his eyes¨ All the pain and none of the comfort. | 4 | |
| 2331560364 | Allusion | When the author refers to a place, event,cultural, or literary work. ¨n Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", "the two knitting women" whom Marlow sees alludes to "Moirae" or Fates as visualized in Greek Mythology: "The two knitting women increase his anxiety by gazing at him and all the other sailors with knowing unconcern. Their eerie looks suggest that they know what will happen (the men dying), yet don't care" | 5 | |
| 2331560365 | Parody | Imitation of a particular writer , artist, or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect. Vampires Suck-Twilight | 6 | |
| 2331563466 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Frankenstein is an allegory to deformed individuals in society. | 7 | |
| 2331563467 | Biblical Allusion | A reference to a noun in the bible. ¨ He gave the kiss of Judas" - Betrayed Jesus | 8 | |
| 2331605403 | Diction | The style of speech, words, sentence structure, etc in speaking or writing. ¨ And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. ¨ The use of certain words creates a gloomy and depressing atmosphere. | 9 | |
| 2331605404 | Invocation | Trying to make a point and inviting someone to understand it. I will invoke the spirit of compassion by invoking Mother Teresa. | 10 | |
| 2331642196 | Analogy | A comparison between two things that can be both similar and different. ¨Memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup. The House in Paris¨ by Elizabeth Bowen | 11 | |
| 2331643917 | Enticing Imagery | Descriptive language, usually the senses, that heightens the imagination of the reader. In this case, it means imagery that is truly captivating. | 12 | |
| 2331643918 | Dialogue | When two or more characters converse with each other. | 13 | |
| 2331645072 | Symmetry | 14 | ||
| 2338513007 | Plot | The events that make up the story. | 15 | |
| 2338513008 | Irony | When a person basically contradicts themselves. For example: I posted a video on YouTube about how boring and useless YouTube is. Situation irony- both the characters and the audience are fully unaware of the implications of the real situation. Dramatic Irony- The audience is aware of the situation, but the character is not. | 16 | |
| 2338514363 | Simile | Showing similarities between two things without the use of like or as. | 17 | |
| 2338514364 | Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. example ( Huckleberry Fin) "There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different." (Chap 18) | 18 | |
| 2338515075 | Vignette | A small impressionistic scene, an illustration, a descriptive passage, a short essay, a fiction, or nonfiction work focusing on one particular moment or giving impression about an idea, character, setting, mood, aspect or an object. The purpose of this is to give a deeper meaning of the text. | 19 | |
| 2338627254 | Classical Allusion | A reference to a particular event or character in classical works of literature, such as ancient Roman or Greek works. "I thought the software would be useful, but it was a Trojan Horse." This refers to the horse that the Greeks built that contained all the soldiers. | 20 | |
| 2338627255 | Imagery | To use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. | 21 | |
| 2338629179 | Syntax | It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought so,how the chosen words are used to form a sentence. In casual conversations, we can simply say, "I cannot go out" to convey our inability to go out. P J Kavanagh's in his poem Beyond Decoration does not rely on merely stating a prosaic "I cannot go out". Rather, he shifts the syntax and says "Go out I cannot", which lays a much stronger emphasis on the inability to go out conveyed by the word "cannot". | 22 | |
| 2338629180 | Symbol | Signify ideas and qualities by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense. "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts," The above lines are symbolic of the fact that men and women, in course of their life perform different roles. "A stage" here symbolizes the world and "players" is a symbol for human beings. | 23 | |
| 2338630383 | Themes | Represent the main idea of a story. Basically, what the author wants the audience to get out of the story, a lesson. | 24 | |
| 2338630384 | Euphemism | Refers to polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant. "Royal wench! She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed. He plowed her, and she cropped." The word "plowed" refers to the act of sexual intercourse and the word "cropped" is a euphemism for becoming pregnant. -Shakespeare(Anthony and Cleopatra) | 25 | |
| 2338631125 | Apostrophe | A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. Macbeth "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." In his mental conflict before murdering King Duncan, Macbeth has a strange vision of a dagger and talks to it as if it were another person. | 26 | |
| 2338631126 | Assonance | Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. "Men sell the wedding bells." The same vowel sound of the short vowel "-e-" repeats itself in almost all the words excluding the definite article. The words do share the same vowel sounds but start with different consonant sounds | 27 | |
| 2338631997 | Consonance | Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. (The non-vowel sounds) For example She ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year | 28 | |
| 2338631998 | Hyperbole | Involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. I am so hungry I could eat a horse! | 29 | |
| 2338633485 | Tone | The author's opinion as seen through a text. " Money. It always ends up making you blue as hell." "Catholics are always trying to find out if you're Catholic." Holden's tone is bitterly sarcastic as he criticizes the nature of things in real life. His character may reveal the attitude of the writer towards life as it is common for writers to use their characters as their mouthpieces. | 30 | |
| 2338633486 | Mood | The feelings of the audience. | 31 | |
| 2338633487 | Narrative | A narrative or story is told by a narrator who may be a direct part of that experience and he or she often shares the experience as a first-person narrator. Sometimes he or she may only observe the events as a third-person narrator and gives his or her verdict. | 32 | |
| 2338634571 | Climax | Is that particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point. | 33 | |
| 2338635827 | Denouement | A literary device which can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. Majority of the examples of denouement show the resolution in the final part or chapter that is often an epilogue. "They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together....." (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald) The denouement in The Great Gatsby happens when Nick decides to go back to Minnesota to get away from the rich people who are engaged in all those things which Nick thinks are part of the moral worthlessness in Gatsby's life. All the people in Gatsby's circle were unfaithful. | 34 | |
| 2338635828 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. It is also used to illustrate an opinion or statement contrary to accepted traditional ideas. "Child is father of the man" This statement has seemingly incorrect proposition but when we look deep into its meaning, we see the truth. The poet is saying that the childhood experiences become the basis for all adult occurrences. The childhood of a person shapes his life and consequently "fathers" or creates the grown-up adult. So, "Child is father of the man." | 35 | |
| 2338637028 | Pathos | A quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow. Pathos can be expressed through words, pictures or even with gestures of the body. | 36 | |
| 2338637029 | Rhetoric | A technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. ohn Milton's Paradise Lost has several examples of rhetoric. To quote an example from Book V: "advise him of his happy state— Happiness in his power left free to will, Left to his own free will, his will though free Yet mutable" The repetition of the phrase "free will" emphasizes the theme of human creation which is making free choices, but the phrase "yet mutable" creates ambiguity that, despite being free, Adam had to be careful, as a wrong act could make him lose his freedom. | 37 |
