Alliteration Flashcards
The repetition of constant sounds within close proximity
Alliteration
The repetition of sounds within close proximity
Anthropomphism
Where animals and objects are portrayed as people in a story
Blank verse
Non rhyming poetry
Creative license
Alteration of objective facts
Dialog
Where characters speak to one another
Dramatic irony
Where the reader or author is aware of something important
Exposition
Where the author interups the story to explain something
Figurative language
Where the use of language actually means something entirely different
Foreshadowing
Where events in the present of the story hint at the future
Hyperbole
A description which exaggerating
Lambic pentameter
Poetry line consisting of ten sylabols
Imagery
To describe something in detail enough to imagine it vividly
Irony
When an event occurs and is unexpected and or mocking to a situation
Metaphor
A direct relationship where an idea substitutes for another
Onomatopoeia
Where sounds are spelt out as words
Oxymoron
A contradiction in terms
Paradox
A situation that is created that can’t possibly exist
Parallelism
Use of similar or identical language
Personification
Where things that are not alive are given traits of alive beings
Repetition
Where a specific word is rephrased multiple times in one sentence
Simile
Where words are compared to eachother with the words like or as.
Symbolism
The use of specific words or objects that are used as a symbol
Verbal irony
When a words meaning is intended to be the exact opposite
