Lit Crit Flashcards
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or words at the begging of successive phrases or clauses
Alliteration
Repetition of the same letter or sound at the begging of consecutive or adjacent words
Anastrophe/hyperbaton
Inversion of the usual order of words
Aposiopesis
Sudden breaking off in a sentence, making it incomplete, although its meaning is clear
Apostrophe
Address in an exclamatory tone to an absent person
Assonance
Close recurrence of the same or similar vowel sounds at the begging, middle, or end of words in a sentence
Asyndeton
Omission of connectives between all members of a series of words, phrases, or clauses
Chiasmus
Arrangement or corresponding pairs of words in opposite order
Ellipsis
Omission of a word or words that are understood and are necessary to complete the grammatical structure of the sentence and the sense
Epithet
Descriptive term attached to the names of certain places or things
Hendiadys
Use of two nouns connected by a conjunction instead of one noun with a modifier
Hyperbolae
Rhetorical exaggeration
Litotes
An understatement (two negatives make a positive)
Metonymy
Substitution for a given word of another of closely kindred meaning
Onomatopoeia
Use of a word whose sound suggest its meaning
Oxymoron
An apparent contradiction in terms
Personification
Endowing of certain inanimate things with human attributes
Polysyndeton
Use of unnecessary conjunctions
Synecdoche
Use of a part of a unit to represent the whole
Tmesis
Separation of parts of a compound works by one + intervening words
Zeugma
The use of a verb/adjective with two meanings
Microcosm
Encapsulating the characteristics of something much larger in a miniature
Good language
Elaborate Abundance Minute Provokes Objectively Comprehend Ominous Intent Intricate Awe
Monosyllabic
Simplicity
Focuses on emotion
Sensory perception
