Lit Midterm Flashcards
Apostrophe
is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present
Extended metaphor
refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
Allusion
A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification
Inverted word order
subject after verb
Imperative
command
Aphorism
Statement of truth in a witty manner
Euphemism
a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a
generally unpleasant word or concept
Parallelism
part of a sentence is the same
Soliloquy
speaking one’s thought aloud alone
Oxymoron
two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
Chiasmus
a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second.
Anachronism
anything that is out of time and out of place
Analogy
a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
Supercilious
having or showing the proud and unpleasant attitude of people who think that they are better or more important than other people
Factitious
artificial
