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Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Allegory
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. (character represents something else)
Allusion
Indirect reference to an object that is not related to the context of the situation
Ambiguity
A word or phrase that can mean more than one thing.
Analogue
similar or comparable in certain respects "gills of a fish are like lungs of a human"
Analogy
A comparison between two similar things, typically for the purpose of explaining or clarifying. "Life is like a box of chocolates"
Anecdote
short account of an event
Aphorism
A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation or reveals a general truth.
Apostrophe
addressing an absent or imaginary person
Assonance
Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity "Go slow over the road"
Cacophony/Euphony
Cacophony: harsh unpleasant words Euphony: harmonious words
Caesura
a strong pause within a line of verse
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Consonnance
the repetition of consonant sounds in proximity to eachother
Denotation
the literal meaning of a word
Imagery
Description that appeals to the senses and is visually desciptive
Irony
A contrast between expectation and reality "when you walk in an empty place and say its so crowded"
Paradox
a statement that seems contradictory but may be true "chicken or the egg"
Pathetic Fallacy
The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example angry cloud
Point of View/Narration
who the story is told from, 1st 2nd or 2rd person
Pun
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word "a boiled egg is hard to beat"
Rhetorical Question
A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer
Satire
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity
Soliliquoy
a speech that a character makes while alone on stage.
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem
Symbol
A thing that represents or stands for something else
Synecdoche
a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa for ex, "new wheels = new car"
Theme
Central idea of a work of literature
Tone
An attitude towards something by the author
Understatement
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
Diction
a writer's choice of words
Colloquilism
informal speech
Jargon
distinct/special words most people don't know
Epigraph
a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Foil
A character who acts as a contrast to another character
Foreshadowing
the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Hyperbole
exaggeration
Metaphor
A comparison without using like or as
Metonymy
substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ( eg, the crown is the queen or king)
Mood
How the reader feels about the text while reading.
Simile
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Personification
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
Onomatopoeia
the use of words that imitate sounds "cat meowed"
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms "awfully good"
Inference
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
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