General techniques Flashcards
The tree was an old friend
Metaphor
Because it isn’t
The tree was like an old friend
Simile
Key word is ‘like’
Clara was to dancing as a painter to law
Analogy
X does A as Y does B
X is to A as Y is to B
I could smell the petrichore, see the rain, feel the soil, hear the rain, etc.
Imagery
Uses 5 senses
Dove with olive branch = peace
Symbolism (And also a Biblical Allusion)
X is written to mean Y
The tree’s branches waved to me
Personification
Something non-living doing a living action
The tree’s canopy touched the sky
Hyperbole
An exaggeration
The triple bacon cheeseburger glistened with health and good choices.
Irony
Sarcastic
I put the box of chocolates on the coffee table, next to the gas mask.
Juxtaposition
Two things put next to each other (normally for contrast)
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up
Paradox
It is impossible (you can’t be posing and being natural)
He turned the other cheek
Jesus said to turn the other cheek when someone strikes you on one cheek
[Biblical] Allusion
This makes reference to the Bible
There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in [Farmer] Jones’s day.
This is as part of Animal Farm, about the U.S.S.R
Allegory
An abstract version to portray a real concept
A poem based of the Mona Lisa
Ekphrasis
Something based on a piece of art
The clicks and clacks of the keyboard
Onomatopoeia
Words describing sounds
You used too much butter in your recipe, and it ruined the dish. You were “outside the margarine of error,”
Pun
A joke
