figurative language and literary devices Flashcards
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volta
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- shift/ turn in argument, theme, or tone of a poem
- most common in sonnets
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caesura
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- break within a line of poetry
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enjambment
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- phrase/sentence running over from one line to the next without punctuation at the end of the line
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heroic couplet
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- pair of rhymed lines in poems including an iambic pentameter
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quatrain
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- stanza consisting of four lines
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stanza
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- a group of lines in a poem
- ex) couplet 2 lines
-ex) quatrain 4 lines
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irony
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- contrast between what’s expected and what occurs
- verbal: speaker says something but means the opposite, sarcastic
- situational: When there is a significant difference between what is expected to happen in a given situation and what occurs, surprising
- dramatic: when the audience knows something that the characters don’t, tension
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imagery
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- descriptive language appealing to the human senses to create mental pictures for the reader
- sight, sound, touch, taste, smell
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simile
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- comparison between two things using like or as
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metaphor
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- comparison between two things NOT using like or as
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personification
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- figure of speech where human qualities are given to non-human things
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apostrophe
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- figure of speech where the speaker addresses someone absent, dead, or non-human as if it has the capability to respond
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idiom
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- phrase whose meaning isn’t literal but instead understood through common use
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pun
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- form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a word or similar-sounding words to create a humorous or ironic effect
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onomatopoeia
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- words that imitate or resemble the sound of the object or action they describe
