Literary Devices Flashcards
Pun
A play on words that have totally different meanings but similar or even identical sounds
Allusion
A reference to events or characters from history, myth, religion literature, pop culture, etc.
Oxymoron
A linking of contradictory terms
Hyberbole
A deliberate exaggeration for effect, or to show intensity of feeling
Simile
A direct (stated) comparison using the words as, like, than
Metaphor
An indirect (implied) comparison
Personification
A type of metaphor
The types of metaphor or personification
1) attributing human or personal qualities to inanimate things or ideas;
2) using a person or character to represent an abstract quality, thing, or idea
Dramatic irony
A situation in which the audience, and one or more characters, knows something that the character on stage doesn’t know
Foreshadowing
Technique (for example,a remark, an event,or an image) used the warn, suggest, or indicate that the particular event will happen at a later point in the literary work.
Example: references to Greek mythology figured: Adonis, Cytherea, Io, Daphne, Appolo
Allusion
Worderful froward
Oxymoron
I perish tranio if I achieve not this young modest girl
Hyberbole
I love her 10 times more than e’er I did
Hyperbole
Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
Simile
Now I play a merchant’s part and venture madly on a desperate mart (Baptista is comparing himself to a merchant taking a gamble to dispose of undesirable goods (Katherine)
Metaphor
What happy gale blows you to Padua here from old Verona? (A happy wind). (A happy wind)
Personification
Any man is so very a fool to be married to hell (hell personifies Katherine and her undesirable personality traits
Personification
Am I a lord,and have I such a lady? Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now? (Christopher sly is becoming convinced that he is in facts lord)
Dramatic irony
I’ll plead for you as for my patron, stand you so assured, as firmly as yourself were still in place (Lucentio (as Cambio)is assuring Gremio that will court Bianca on Gremio’s behalf
Dramatic irony
What, this gentleman will out-talk us all!! (Gremio is worried that Tranio (as lucentio) will win Baptista over with his fancy speeches and convince him to allow Lucentio to marry Bianca.)
Foreshadowing