English terms week 3

Irony

A figure of thought. In broad usage, designates the result of inconsistency between a statement and a context that undermines the statement

Omniscient Narrator

Relevant to point of view. A narrator who, in fiction of the narrative, has complete access to both the deeds and the thoughts of all characters in the narrative

Onomatopoeia

A figure of speech. Verbal sounds that imitate and evoke the sounds they denote

Oxymoron

A figure of thought. The conjunction of normally incompatible terms

Pathetic Fallacy

The attribution of sentiment to natural phenomena, as if they were in sympathy with human feeling

Personification

A figure of thought. The attribution of human qualities to nonhuman forces or objects

Satire

A genre. In Roman literature, the communication, in the form of a letter between equals, complaining of the ills of contemporary society

Simile

A figure of thought. Comparison, usually using the word “like” or “as,” of one thing with another so as to produce sometimes surprising analogies

Sonnet

A verse form. A form combining a variable number of units of rhymed lines to produce a fourteen-line poem, usually in rhyming iambic pentameter lines

Syntax

Designates the rules by which sentences are constructed in a given language