Language and structure terms Flashcards
slowly, gently, quite, then, there
adverb
‘blisters beaded’
alliteration
to soon made glad, / to easily impressed’
Anaphora
Gothic hero, Gothic villan
archetpyes
‘shrink to a wedding-ring’
assonance
Omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
‘I came, I saw, I conquered’
Asyndeton
Narrative structure in which central narrative is contained within a second framing narrative
Chinese Box narrative
‘more’ ‘er’
comparative
Omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry
Elision
Substitution of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry
Euphemism
Continued comparison between two unlike things
Extended metaphor
In narrative terms, a state of balance in which conflict is either yet to occur or has been resovled
Equilibrium
Hard sounds
Voiced fricatives
Soft sounds
Voiceless fricatives
Exaggeration for emphasis
Hyperbole
From greek litos (ironical statement)
no small amount
Litotes
Comparison between thing which are essentially unalike
Metaphor
A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other
Oxymoron
A situation of two words that appear to contradict each other
The same empty gardens exist
Oxymoron
A situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but which contains a truth worth considering
Paradox
A kind of personification that gives humans emotions to inanimate objects of nature
Pathetic fallacy
Repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence
polyptoton
He ran and jumped and laughed
Polysyndeton
Anticipation. Foreshadowing or flashforward
The adjective is proleptic of…
Language relating to the senses
Sensuous langauge
Repetition of sss
Sibilance
Comparison with ‘like’ or ‘as’
Sibilance
Narration that has been written in the style and patterns of thought
Stream of consciousness
Expressing highest ‘bravest’
Superlative
A part substituted for a whole
‘I wake with another mouth feeding from me’
Synecdoche
Practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings
Symbolism
Fuse different senses
Synaesthesia
Narrator whose perspective cannot be trusted
Unreliable narrator
Roundabout speech
Periphrasis
