Literary Terms Flashcards
What literary term is given to the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
Ambiguity
What literary term is given to the repetition of closely connected words beginning with the same letter, usually a consonant.
Alliteration
What literary term is given to the repetition of identical vowel sounds in order to achieve a particular effect.
Assonance
What literary term is given to the inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way to be considered unfair.
Bias
What literary term is given to a phrase or opinion that is over used and betrays a lack of original thought.
Cliche
What literary term is given to an idea or feeling which a word invokes in a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Connotation
What literary term is given to a pair of lines of meter in poetry.
Couplet
What literary term is given when a sentence runs from from one line of poetry into the next line without punctuation marks.
Enjambment
What literary term is given to a general innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found unpleasant.
Euphemism
What literary term is given for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment.
Genre
What literary term is given to the ‘picture’ in poetry.
Imagery
What literary term is given to the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
Irony
What literary term is given to a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
What literary term is given to he use of words which echo their meaning in sound.
Onomatopoeia
What is Alliteration
The term given to the repetition of closely connected words beginning with the same letter, usually a consonant.
What is ambiguity.
The term given to the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
What is assonance.
The term igiven to the repetition of identical vowel sounds in order to achieve a particular effect.
What is Bias.
The term given to the inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way to be considered unfair.
What is Cliche.
The term given to a phrase or opinion that is over used and betrays a lack of original thought.
What is Connotation.
The term given to an idea or feeling which a word invokes in a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is Couplet.
The term given to a pair of lines of meter in poetry.
What is Enjambment
The term given when a sentence runs from from one line of poetry into the next line without punctuation marks.
What is a Euphemism.
The term given to a general innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found unpleasant.
What is Simile
A descriptive technique that compares one thing with another, usually using ‘as’ or ‘like’.
