Finals Flashcards
The Occurrence of the same letter or at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Alliteration
A form of word play that suggests two or more meanings by exploiting multiple meanings.. A play on words
Pun
The subject of a talk, piece of writing, or a persons thoughts
Theme
The presentation of something aa being smaller..or less important
Understatement
A figure of speech that implies that something is the same as a unrelated thing…
Like and as are avoided
Metaphor
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing w/ another thing that is different…
Usually uses like or as
Simile
The unit of rhythm in poetry
Meter
A line or verse w/ 5 metrical feet.. Each has one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
Iambic pentameter
A literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought
Couplet
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which the poet addresses a absent person an abstract idea or a thing
Apostrophe
The repetition of the sound of a vowel in nonrhyminng stressed syllables
Assonance
The formation of a word from a sound associated w/ what is named …..a sound
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the subject as a whole..
Synecdoche
A poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes
Sonnet
