literary terms- style

alliteration

the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words

antithesis

a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together to achieve a constrating effect.

anthypophora

raising a question and then immediately providing an answer to that question

anaphora

repetition of the first part of a line in order to achieve an artistic effect.

apostrophe

a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is directly addressed as if it were alive, resent, and could reply.

assonance

the repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds

asyndeton

intentionally eliminating conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintaining the grammatical accuracy

cacophony

a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

coceit

when an author likens two vastly different objects using similes or metaphors, exploiting a single, intellectually comparison or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds thought a poem or story

connotation

what word suggests beyond its basic definition; a words overtones of meaning

consonance

the repetition at close intervals of consonant sounds found anywhere in a word

denotation

the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word

ekphrasis

the poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words

epigram

(1) a short, whitty poem expressing a single thought or observations. (2) a consise, clever, often paradoxical statement

euphony

a smooth, pleasent-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

extended figure

a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

figurative language

language employing figures of speech; language that can only be taken literally or only literally

figure of speech

broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly (and for the purposed of this class) a way of saying one thing and meaning another

juxtaposition

position opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast

litotes

a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives

metaphor

a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike.

metonymy

a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

onomatopoeia

the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sounds

oxymoron

a phrase that uses two contradictory or opposing terms to create an effect

personification

a figure of speech in which humans attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept

polysyndeton

several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect

rhythm

any wavelinke recurrence of motion or sound

sentimentality

unmerited or contrived tender feeling that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality.

simile

a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, sumilar to, resembles, or seems

synecdoche

a figure of speech in which is used for the whole

syntax

the arrangement of words to form phrases, classes and senteces; sentence construction