Figures of Speech and Poetic Sound Devices

Flashcards covering figures of speech and poetic sound elements based on the lecture notes.

Figures of Speech

Expressions used to make writing creative and expressive.

Simile

A comparison using "like" or "as".

Metaphor

A direct comparison where one thing is described as another.

Personification

Giving human qualities to something nonhuman.

Hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis.

Synecdoche

A device where a part represents the whole or vice versa.

Metonymy

Using a related word to represent something else.

Oxymoron

Two contradictory words placed together.

Paradox

A statement that seems contradictory but may be true.

Sound

The result of the creative combination of words, using techniques such as alliteration, assonance, rhyme, repetition, and anaphora.

Rhythm

That pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

Iambic

A rhythmic syllable pattern consisting of unstressed followed by stressed syllables.