Lit Terms (synecdoce-epigraph) Flashcards
The experience of two or more modes of sensation when only one sense is being stimulated (Red pain)
Synesthesia
Metaphor in which a small part stands for a large part: “each day they had the task of attending to four hungry mouths”
Synecdoche
Total of ideas and attitudes not only of the literary speaker but also of the author
Tenor
Three line stanza
Tercet
The central or dominating idea in a literary work
Theme
Irony which derives from deliberately representing something as much less than it really is
Understatement or meiosis
Details that carry the tenor
Vehicle
The shift or break in thought in the Petrarchan sonnet
Volta
Single word standing in the same grammatical relation to two other terms, but with some alteration of meaning
Zeugma
Seize the day
Carpe diem
A kind of irony; assertion of something by the denial of its opposite: “he was not unmindful of the consequences”
Litotes
State of balance between opposing forces
Stasis
Negative strong statement
Negative imperative
State of anxiety
Angst
Rhyme of both stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of a line
Feminine rhyme
