Literary Terms Flashcards
1
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Personification
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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it has human qualities
2
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Symbols
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A person place thing or event that has meaning and itself and stands for something beyond itself as well
3
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Simile
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A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such like, as, than or resembles
4
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Verbal irony
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Says something means another
5
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Situational irony
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Occurs when what happens is very different than what was expected
6
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Dramatic irony
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Understood by viewers not characters
7
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Allusion
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A reference to a statement, person, place or event
8
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Dialect
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A way of thinking that is a characteristic of some people
9
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What is a metaphor?
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And imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing
