Literary Techniques Flashcards
Sibilance
The repeated use of S sounds at the beginning or in a word
Auditory imagery
Imagery that describes auditory experiences
Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together, “his tender heir might bear his memory”
Cacophony
Harsh sounding words grouped together
Euphony
nice sounding words grouped together
Consonance
when two words have the same consonant sound following different vowel sounds
Diagetic Sound vs Non-Diagetic Sound
diagetic sound can be heard by the characters in a film, non-diagetic sound cannot (like background music)
proxemics
The positioning of characters in a shot
idiom
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words eg: Break a leg, once in a blue moon, the ball is in your court
mise-en-scene
The arrangement of a scene in regards to characters, props, and set and what it conveys
Imperative
Like a call to action eg: Clean your room, Move out the way, find my jacket
hypophoria question
when a question is asked then answered straight after
Asyndeton
sentence structure with no conjunctions, eg: reduce reuse recycle
polysyndeton
the use of lots of conjunctions
possessive pronouns
used when describing thing belonging to someone eg: mine, ours
divisive pronouns
exemplifying the divide between two groups, eg: them or us
Lexical groups
a bunch of words or phrases relating to the same thing, like dog, cat, fish etc
anaphora
the repetition of words or phrases starting lines in poetry (like litany for survival)
antistrophe
the repetition of a phrase in reverse order
enjambment
no punctuation ending a line that carries onto the next (mushrooms)
caesura
break in the middle of lines
salience
to emphasise something in a shot
paradox
logical inconsistency eg: no one goes to that restaurant, it’s too busy
oxymoron
a figure of speech that contradicts itself eg: deafening silence
