General Literary Terms Flashcards

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Visual imagery

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Appealing to the site

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Imagery

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Concrete details assigned to appeal to the readers five senses. By itself, the term imagery implies a reference to sight; only referred to visual imagery if you’re distinguishing it from the other types.

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Olfactory imagery

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Appealing to the sense of smell

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Tactile imagery

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Appealing to the sense of touch

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Auditory imagery

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Appealing to the sense of hearing

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Gustatory imagery

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Appealing to the sense of taste

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Simile

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A comparison of two unlike things using like or as, such as “my love is like a red, red rose.”

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Synesthesia

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A blending or intermingling of different senses and description. “Light laughs in the breeze in her castle of sunshine,”

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Metaphor

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A comparison of two things not using like or as

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Verbal irony

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A form in wordplay that is used to signify it’s opposite for example, “war is kind”

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Dramatic irony

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Dramatic irony occurs when a character is left ignorant of facts revealed to the audience

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Situational irony

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When the outcome is different than what the author has been leading you towards

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Symbolism

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A device in literature when an object represents an idea

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Alliteration

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A literary device that repeats a speech sound in a sequence of words that is closer to each other. Alliteration typically uses consonants at the beginning of the word to give stress to its syllable. For example “I pondered weak and weary to the rare and radiant maiden”

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Assonance

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When a writer repeats the vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of words. For example, in the line, “my rabbit walked my ear,” the words rabbit and why aren’t example of assonance because they both contain a short “a” sound on the stressed syllable

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Consonance

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A literary device in which the same consonant sound is repeated two or more times in short succession

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Onomatopoeia

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Refers to words that sound exactly or almost like the thing that they represent. Many words that we use for animal or machine noises on onomatopoeia words, such as “moo” for the sound of a cow

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End stop

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When a sentence of a poem is ended with punctuation or thought at the end of the line

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Enjambment

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When a sentence from a poem spans across several ends of lines and most likely stops in the middle

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Caesura

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A Stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or By a grammatical boundary such as a phrase or clause. “Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the East

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Foreshadowing

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Hints of events to come

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Allusion

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A reference to a person, place, or thing from literature, history, art, religion, politics, or popular culture. The author expects the reader to be familiar with this reference. For example, honest Abe

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Synecdoche

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I figure of speech which expresses either more, or less, then it literally denotes. For example: “the world treated him badly.” The whole world did not treat him badly, only a part. The whole is used as a part.

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Atmosphere

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The mood established by the setting and action

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Tone

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The authors attitude towards a subject

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Mood

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I feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind

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Parallelism

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Phrases, clauses, or words of similar construction placed side-by-side. For example, “what a grand thing to love, what a grander thing to be loved.”