Allegory - Cliche - narrative AND Explication - mixed metaphor Flashcards
Tells about a series of events
Narrative
Interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text
Explication
Short story that teaches a practical lesson
Fable
A type of comedy that stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations
Farce
Inaccurate if interpreted literally
Figurative Language
Interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events
Flashback
Character who acts as contrast to another character
Foil
Hints and clues to suggest what till happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhythm scheme
Free Verse
Uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
Connecting words between clauses
Hypotactic
Use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, place, or an experience
Imagery
Reversal of the normal word order in a sentence
Inversion
Discrepancy between appearances and reality
Irony
Someone says one thing but really means something else
Verbal Irony
When there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, and what really does happen
Situational Irony
Often used on stage. In the play or story character think one thing is true, but the audience knows better
Dramatic Irony
Normally un associated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another
Juxtaposition
Understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form
Litotes
Fiction or poetry tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape
Local Color
Main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units
Loose Sentence
Poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker
Lyric Poem
Makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles
Metaphor
Does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison
Implied Metaphor
Extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it
Extended Metaphor
Metaphor has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid
Dead Metaphor
Metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible
Mixed Metaphor
