First 16 Flashcards
Connotation
Associations a word calls to mind
Denotation
The dictionary or literal meaning of a word or phrase
Enjambment
The running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza into the next without stopping at the end of the first.
Figurative language
Unlike literal expression, this uses figures of speech such as a metaphor, simile, and metonymy, personification, and hyperbole. Appeals to one senses.
Conceit
A far-fetched comparison between two seemingly unlike things
Metaphor
A figure of speech which compares to do similar things, asserting that one thing is another thing, not just that one is like another
Personification
The attribution of human characteristics to an animal or an inanimate object
Metonymy
A figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a word of phrase closely associated with it. Similar to synecdoche (many authors do not distinguish between the two)
Synecdoche
Figure speech were one part represents the entire object or vice versa
Simile
A comparison of unlike things using the word like as or so
Euphemism
Substitution of an inoffensive word or phrase for another that would be harsh, offensive, or embarrassing. And make something sound better than it is but it is usually more wordy than the original.
Oxymoron
It figures speech that combines two contradictory words placed side-by-side. (Ex. Bittersweet, Wise fool, living that)
Paradox
Statement of situation that at first seems impossible or oxymoronic but which sells itself reveals meaning
Blank verse
English poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Free verse
Rhythmical lines varying in length, adhering to no fixed metrical pattern, and usually unrhymed. Seems formless but is not. Form or pattern is often largely based on repetition and parallel grammatical structure
