English 4 Literary Terms

Question 1

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a siscription more emphatic or vivid

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Simile

Question 2

A figure of speech on which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable

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Metaphor

Question 3

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

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Personification

Question 4

A thing that represents or stands for something else

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Symbol

Question 5

E occurrence of he same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Alliteration

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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Onomatopoeia

Question 7

A strategy readers use to think more deeply about a text.

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Sensory imagery

Question 8

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

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Free verse

Question 9

A poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

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End rhyme

Question 10

A rhyme involving word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

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Internal rhyme

Question 11

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

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Rhyme scheme/ Rhyme

Question 12

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

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Rhythm

Question 13

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal of primary meaning

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Connotation

Question 14

The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or idea that the word suggests

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Denotation

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech I. Which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Oxymoron

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The arrange,met of word and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

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Syntax

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The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

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Diction

Question 19

The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a persons thoughts, or an exhibition

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Theme

Question 20

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

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Allusion

Question 21

Language where the literal meaning of words or phrases is disregarded in order to show an imaginative relationship between diverse things

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Figurative language

Question 22

Literary work in which special intensify is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

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Poetry

Question 23

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrics, unit in a poem

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Stanza

Question 24

A figure of speech in poetry that is addressed to an apse the person or thing

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Apostrophe

Question 25

Metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work

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Extended metaphor