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Literary Terms Flashcards

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Sensory details that make a work of literature easy to picture

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Imagery

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A stated or implied Comparison between two or more objects

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Metaphor

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A comparison that is used multiple times throughout a work of literature

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Extended metaphor

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Does not directly compare one thing to another

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Implied metaphor

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A comparison that has become literal instead of figurative

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dead metaphor

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The use of two metaphors in one statement

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Mixed metaphor

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A brief reference to a work of art,person, place, or event

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Allusion

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The use of wit to ridicule a subject

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Satire

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A statement that seems to be contradictory but actually has meaning

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Paradox

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The repetition of sounds with two or more words

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Rhyme

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Two lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplet

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The authors attitude to the subject

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Tone

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13
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The handling of language

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Style

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14
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A comparison between two startling different things

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Conceit

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A writers choice of words for clarity, effectiveness, and precision

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Diction

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Hey poetic foot that has an unstressed syllable then a stressed syllable

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Iamb

17
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A humorous story that was exaggerated

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Tall tale

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Rhymed verse lines written and iambic pentameter

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Heroic couplet

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Used to suggest meaning and mood

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Symbolism

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A comparison that uses like, as, then, or resembles

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Simile

21
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The sun that brief summer day

Rose cheerless over hills of gray

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Couplet

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A short story set in the present time that makes a reference to Rome’s Coliseum

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Allusion

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In death there is life

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Paradox

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Taylor’s comparison between cloth-making and God’s granting of graces in his poem, “Huswifery”:
Make me Thy loom then, knit therein this twine…
Thine ordinances make my fulling mills

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Conceit

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The storm of protest was nipped in the bud

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Mixed metaphor

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