Glossary Flashcards
Reference, without lengthy explanations, to literature, historical events or characters frost until God‘s last put out the light are a biblical reference and refer to the phrase. Let there be light.
Allusion
Is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect it emphasizes the idea of contrast by parallel structures of the contrasted phrases
To err is human to forgive divine
Antithesis
A figure of speech in which the speaker of a poem directly addresses a person or object words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary or an object or an abstract idea example that be not proud. It is a variety of personification.
Apostrophy
Poems that urge the reader or the person to whom they are addressed to live for today and enjoy the pleasure of the moment from the Latin seize the day
Carpe diem
A trite or overused expression or idea
Cliché
What’s a word suggest to us as opposed to what it literally means words that have emotional associations are suggestive meanings example the following words have positive and negative associations: skinny, tiny, skeletal, underweight, slender
Connotation
The exact dictionary meaning of a word (what a word means)
Denotation
A device in which a poet or writer gives a hint of what it is to come later in the story it creates an atmosphere of suspense
Foreshadowing
A lyric poem celebrating a dead person
Elegy
A long serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure
Epic
A mild or pleasant word, or phrase that is used instead to soften an expression, for example, to let someone go instead of to fire or passed away instead of died
Euphemism
An overstatement, a deliberate exaggeration to make a point example waiting for ages or flood of tears
Hyperbole
To play around with words so that the meaning implied is actually different from the literal one, an incongruent or discrepancy between two things
Irony
A very effective literary tool, which propose a direct comparison between two unlike things, it is an assertion without using the word like or as of the identity of things which on the literal level do not appear close it make take many forms implied VS stated for example:
and what of the dead they lie without shoes in their stone boats they are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed throat eye and knucklebone.
Metaphor
A lengthy poem addressed to a praiseworthy person, serious, and thoughtful in tone
Ode
Words are used imitate sounds the imitation of natural sounds or noises in the sound of words having sounds that reflect their meanings example whip, flop, buzz, hiss, tick tock
Onomatopoeia
A two word phrase, which is apparently contradictory, but which form a new meaning it is a short paradox which usually consists of an adjective and a noun with conflicting meanings example terrible beauty or a working vacation
Oxymoron
Apparent contradiction or illogical statement, a statement that seems follows words with common experience or simply absorbed, but which nonetheless represents a profound level of truth
Paradox
Giving human characteristics to non-human things or abstractions
Personification
The repetition of sounds of importantly positions, words in a poem. It is associated with the origins of poetry as a spoken medium that used memory devices to help her sit of the poem. Keep lengthy passages ordered in his mind.
Rhyme
An explicit comparison, using the words like or as as a connecting device
Simily
From the Greek to throw together an object that suggest further remaining in addition to itself used to fuse the meanings of things from different zones of experiences. There are some traditional or conventional ones found in poetry. For example, the heart stands for the love the snake for the sin, the dove for peace the circle represent completion, unity infinity, the seasons suggest stages in human life, the cross symbolizes Christianity.
Symbol
A purposeful statement which intentionally downplay a situation like with hyperbole it allows to put to make a point more clearly it’s the opposite of a hyperbole Dorothy’s statement: «I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto» is a famous example
Understatement
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
