Literary Techniques Flashcards
Pathetic fallacy
A type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather
Imperative command
Instructional language
Consonance
The close delirium of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels
Euphony
Agreeable sounds that are easy to articulate
Tone
Poets attitude towards his subject or readers
Assonance
Is a close reptilian of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables
Dissonance
The harsh juxtaposition of harsh jarring sounds in one or more lines
Emotive techniques
Language intended to create an emotional response
Assonance
The repute on of similar vowel sounds
Aural imagery
Images created through sounds
Denouement
Near the ending of a play novel or drama where the plot is resolved
Direct speech
The words that are actually spoken
Exposition
The opening of the play which introduced characters and sets the scene
Form
The way a poem is structured or laid out
Imperatives
Commands
Interior monologue
Character talking to himself
Mood
The atmosphere created by a price of writing
Narrative structure
The way that a piece of story writing had been put together
Objective information
Factual ideas
Regular metre
Long and short stressed and unstressed syllables in which poetry is often written
Rhyming couplet
Two rhyming lines of verse
Stream of consciousness
A narrative form where random thoughts give the impression that words have spiked from the narrators mind
Soliloquy
Expressed their thoughts and feelings aloud for the benefit of the audience
Tone
Created through the combined effects of the authors rhythm and diction
