literary devices Flashcards
polyoptotin
repetition of words derived from the same root
plosive alliteration
string of words that begin with plosive consonants (p,t,b,d,)
assonance
string of words that have the same vowel sounds between the consonants
fricative alliteration
the repetition of fricative sounds (f,v)
sibilance
a group of words with repeating s sounds
volta
a change in tone throughout a poem usually in a sonnet
epizeuxis
the repetition of a word or phase immediately in sucession with eachother e.g. sad, sad, sad
anaphora
the repetition of a word or expression at the begining or successing clauses, phrases or sentences
asyndeton
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
synethesia
the blending of human sense to describe an object
conceit
when two very unlike things are compared to one another but an connection can be seen if you try hard enough
iambic pentameter
when lines/verses alternate between stressed and unstressed sylabels begining with unstressed
diction
the words selected by the author
rhyming couplet
two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought
parallelism
using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure or other gramatical elements
