Literary Terms 4 Flashcards
Inversion
A reversal of position, order, form, or relationship
Litotes
understatement, irony/satire
Lyric Poem
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person
Metamorphosis
change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means
Metonymy
figure of speech where you replace a sentence with a word (give me your ear = listen)
Myth
a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone
Narrative Poem
form of poetry that tells a story
Onomatopoeia
the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it
Oxymoron
a combination of contradictory or incongruous words
Parable
a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle
Paradox
one having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
Parallelism
repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect
Parody
a feeble or ridiculous imitation
Pastoral
a literary work dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court life
