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Literary Terms Flashcards

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Alliteration

A

repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Allusion

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a reference to another book, person, event, etc.

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Appeal

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ethos, pathos, logos

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Apostrophe

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address to an absent or imaginary person

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Assonance

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repetition of a vowel sound

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Asyndeton

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absence of conjunctions in a sentence

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Characterization

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how a character is portrayed in a piece

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Consonance

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repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the word

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context

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information provided to give the reader background

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diction

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the choice and use of words

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dramatic irony

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when the audience knows something the characters don’t

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ellipsis

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omission of a word or phrase bc its implied in the text

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epistrophe

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repetition of a word at the end of sentences

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ethos/pathos/logos

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credibility, emotion, evidence

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euphemism

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nice way to describe something unpleasant

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exclamation

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sentence to explain extreme shock or emotion

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flashback

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a scene set in a time earlier than the main story

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foreshadowing

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predicting something before it happens

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hyperbole

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an exaggerated statement

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idiom

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common phrase not meant to be taken literally

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juxtaposition

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2 contrasting or similar elements placed together in a sentence

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metaphor

A

comparison without using like or as

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onomatopoeia

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words that imitate sounds

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oxymoron

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phrase consisting of 2 contradictory terms

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paradox

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statement that seems contradictory but its actually true

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personification

A

characterizing an object

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polysyndeton

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repetition of conjunctions

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preposition

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word that connects a noun or pronoun to another word in sentence

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pun

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a joke

30
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rhetorical question

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question not meant to be answered

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simile

A

comparison using like or as

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situational irony

A

outcome is very different to what is expected

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symbol

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thing that stands for something else

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tone

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writers attitude

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understatement

A

under- exaggerating something

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verbal irony

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sarcasm

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