literary devices Flashcards
What is the name to describe things that have no physical qualities?
An abstract noun
What is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun?
An adjective
What is A word that modifies verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and prepositions?
Adverb
What is the repetition of the same sound in the initial position in a sequence of words?
Alliteration
What is the word to refer to something indirectly or metaphorically?
Allusion
What is a mid line pause?
Caesura
What is a deliberately elaborate metaphor?
Conceit
What is the word for associations attached to a word in addition to its dictionary definition?
Connotations
What is a word to describe run on lines?
Enjambment
What is the word to descripe a descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture?
Imagery
What is the word to describe to place two or more things side by side?
Juxtaposition
What is the phrase to describe a group of words joined by similarities?
A lexical set
What is a description which does not compare one thing with another but actually becomes the other?
Metaphor
What is the term used to denote words that imitate sounds?
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of apparently contradictory words in a phrase?
Oxymoron
What is the word to describe when the environment mirrors emotions?
Pathetic fallacy
What is a device in which the non-human is given personal and human qualities?
Personification
What are consonant sounds articulated with a hissing sound e.g. s,z
Sibilants
What is a device which directly compares two things using like or as e.g. the trees swayed in the wind like dancers?
Simile
What is a verb that express states of being or processes?
Static verb
What is a device in which a word or phrase represents something else?
Symbolism
What is symbolism?
The beats or rhythm in a line of verse
What is a static verb?
Verbs that express states of being or processes
What is a smilie?
A device which directly compares two things using like or as e.g. the trees swayed in the wind like dancers
