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Imagery

Imagery

descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature and also add symbolism to the work

types of imagery

1. Visual imagery

2. Auditory imagery

3. Olfactory imagery

4. Gustatory imagery

5. Tactile imagery

Visual imagery

sight

Auditory imagery

hearing

Olfactory imagery

smell

Gustatory imagery

taste

Tactile imagery

touch

Persona

from the Latin word “mask of an actor,”

Persona

fictitious character created by the poet to serve as the “voice” of the poem to represent the thoughts of the writer

Figures of Speech

expression that is not meant to be read literally

simile

use of a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things

Metaphor

Direct Comparison between things

Personification

a type of metaphor that  attributes human like characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.

Onomatopoeia

Sounds

Hyperbole

figure of speech in which great exaggeration is used for emphasis or humorous effect

Metonymy

substituting mundane, ordinary objects or expression  with words or other phrases to give more poetic effect

Oxymoron

putting together two opposite ideas in one statement.

Apostrophe

addressing an abstract thing or concept, or some dead or absent person as though it were present or a live.

Alliteration

a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series

Assonance

takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start a different consonant sounds.