Language Terminology Flashcards
Allegory
-Extended Metaphor
-Applied to a text where there is a secondary meaning behind the literal one e.g. animal farm.
Alliteration
-Repetition of the same initial word in the same proximity.
Antithesis
-Use of contrasting ideas, characteristics, images or themes which are placed adjacently.
Anaphora
-Repetition of the same phrase at the beginning of a sentence or clause.
Assonance
-Repetition of vowel sounds, usually after different consonants
E.g. ‘So twice five miles of fertile ground’ (i)
Consonance
-Repition of the same or similar sounding consonants but with different vowels
-E.g. ‘As Frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day’ (f and l)
Dramatic Irony
-When a character within a story does not know as much as the reader/audience about their circumstances.
Dramatic monologue
-A single speaker addresses their audience
Hyperbole
-Literary term for exaggeration
Homonym
-When words have the same sounds but different meanings
E.g beach and beech
Juxtaposition/ing
-Placing immediately next to
Metaphor
Not true, figure of speech for example
Metonymy
-Substitution of the subject by something associated with it.
E.g the catwalk when talking about a run way show.
Motif
-Recurring idea/image in a body of work
E.g In the hollow crown, the motif is the game of Chess.
Narrative
-The presentation of events of a story whereby the selection of those create a meaning.
Onomatopoeia
-Words that convey a sense of the sound they represent- grind, snarl, chuckle.
Onomatopoeia
-Words that convey a sense of the sound they represent- grind, snarl, chuckle.
Pathetic Fallacy
-Using the weather and other external features to convey the world of mankind of that of a particular individual.
Pathos
-A literary way of saying the author creates in the reader a sense of pity for the character.
-This identifies the elevated nature of the experience which is an essential aspect of tragedy
Pathos
-A literary way of saying the author creates in the reader a sense of pity for the character.
-This identifies the elevated nature of the experience which is an essential aspect of tragedy
Periprasis
-Avoidance of direct description of taboos- the over-explicit or the socially unacceptable.
Personification
-Giving of human characteristics, feelings and actions to animals, non-animate objects and ideas.
Poetic Diction
-Using poetic language outside of normal use
-E.g. using a noun as if it were a verb, formal vocabulary. (e.g Richard’s Speech in A1 S1)
Satire
-Ridiculing real people or groups of people, their values or contemporary ideas.
Sibilance
-Specific form of alliteration of the ‘s’ sound.
Sign-posting
(Also known as topic sentence)
-Can be used to describe how someone guides us as to where you are going- e.g Richard’s Speech A1 S1 ‘Now is the summer…’
Soliloquy
-Talking to oneself
-Could be a running monologue that expresses their thoughts
Syllogism
-A logical argument that has two reasons that leads to a conclusion.
E.g. All boys are monsters (Reason 1), John is a boy (Reason 2), therefore John is a monster (Conclusion
Symbol
-An object or an action that is used to represent an abstract idea
Synecdoche
-Occurs usually when a part of something is used to represent it as a whole.
-E.g. saying that someone owns a nice set of wheels is synecdochal of that person’s car
Transferred Epithet
-Moving of an adjective referring to human feelings to an inanimate object
-E.g. to say someone travels along the weary road is referring to the traveller’s tiredness rather than the road’s
