Literary Devices Flashcards
Alliteration
The reputation of consonant sounds within close proximity, usually in consecutive words within the same sentence or line.
Anthropomorphism
Where animals or inanimate objects are portrayed in a story as people, such as by walking, talking, or being given arms, legs and/ or facial features.
Blank verse
Non-rhyming poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter.
Creative license
Exaggeration or alteration of objective facts or reality for the purpose of enhancing meaning in a fictional context.
Dialogue
Where characters speak to one another; may often be used to substitute for exposition.
Dramatic irony
Where the audience or reader is aware of something important, of which the characters in the story are not aware.
Exposition
Where an author interrupts a story in order to explain something usually to provide important background information.
Figurative language
Any use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words used themselves.
Foreshadowing
Where future events in a story, or perhaps the out come, are suggested by the author before they even happen.
Hyperbole
A description which exaggerates.
Lambic pentameter
Poetry written with each line containing ten syllables, in 5 repetitions of two-syllable pattern wherein the pronunciation emphasis is in the second syllable.
Imagery
Language which describes something in detail using words to substitute for and create sensory stimulation, including visual, imagery, and sound imagery.
Irony
Where an event occurs, which is unexpected in which is in absurd or mocking oppositions to what is expected or appropriate
Metaphor
Hey, direct relationship where one thing or idea substitutes for another
Onomatopoeia
Where sounds are spelled out as words or when words describing sounds actually sound like they sound they describe
Oxymoron
A contradiction in terms
Paradox
Where a situation is created, which cannot possibly exit because different elements of it canceled each other out
Parallelism
Use of similar identical, language structures, events, or ideas in different parts of a text
Personification
We’re in eminent objects or abstract concepts are similarly endowed with human self awareness where humans thoughts actions and perception are directly attributed to innate objects or abstract ideas
Personification
Wearing an ad strap concept, such as particular human behavior or force of nature is as a person
Repetition
Where is specific word phrase or structure is repeated several times to emphasize a particular idea
Simile
An indirect relationship, where one thing or idea is described as being similar to another, usually contain the words like or as but not always
Symbolism
The use of specific objects or images to represent abstract ideas. This term is commonly miss used, describing any and all representational relationships, which, in fact are more often metaphorical than symbolic a symbol must be something triangle or visible while that idea is symbolized must be something abstractor un
Verbal irony
Where the meaning is intended to be the exact opposite of what the words actually mean
