Key Terms (Literature) - Literary Techniques. Flashcards
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Litotes
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Understatement
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for effect
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Antithesis
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Opposites
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Conceit
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A deliberate extended/elaborate metaphor
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Juxtaposition
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One thing set against another for effect
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Image
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Symbolic word picture
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Metaphor
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Descriptive language where one thing is seen directly in terms of another
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Oxymoron
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Contradiction
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Personification
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Attribution of human qualities to an inanimate object
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Pun
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Play on words
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Simile
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Comparison using like or as
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Symbol
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Word or phrase representing something else
