Language and structure terms Flashcards

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slowly, gently, quite, then, there

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adverb

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‘blisters beaded’

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alliteration

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to soon made glad, / to easily impressed’

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Anaphora

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Gothic hero, Gothic villan

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archetpyes

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‘shrink to a wedding-ring’

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assonance

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Omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
‘I came, I saw, I conquered’

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Asyndeton

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Narrative structure in which central narrative is contained within a second framing narrative

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Chinese Box narrative

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‘more’ ‘er’

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comparative

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Omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry

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Elision

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She’s in the sky (heaven)

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Euphemism

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Continued comparison between two unlike things

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Extended metaphor

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In narrative terms, a state of balance in which conflict is either yet to occur or has been resovled

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Equilibrium

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Hard sounds

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Voiced fricatives

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Soft sounds

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Voiceless fricatives

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14
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Exaggeration for emphasis

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Hyperbole

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From greek litos (ironical statement)
no small amount

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Comparison between thing which are essentially unalike

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A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other

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A situation of two words that appear to contradict each other
The same empty gardens exist

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A situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but which contains a truth worth considering

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A kind of personification that gives humans emotions to inanimate objects of nature

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Pathetic fallacy

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Repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence

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polyptoton

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He ran and jumped and laughed

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Polysyndeton

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Anticipation. Foreshadowing or flashforward

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The adjective is proleptic of…

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Language relating to the senses
Sensuous langauge
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Repetition of sss
Sibilance
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Comparison with 'like' or 'as'
Simile
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Narration that has been written in the style and patterns of thought
Stream of consciousness
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Expressing highest 'bravest'
Superlative
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A part substituted for a whole 'I wake with another mouth feeding from me'
Synecdoche - used in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (western wave refers to the whole ocean) - used in Macbeth (thy face instead of you)
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Practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings
Symbolism
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Fuse different senses
Synaesthesia
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Narrator whose perspective cannot be trusted
Unreliable narrator
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Roundabout speech
Periphrasis