literary terms Flashcards
assonance
repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words
hyperbole
deliberate exaggeration or over extrication; a basic tool of irony
oxymoron
A figure of speech that is a contradiction in terms
metaphor
A direct comparison of two unlike things for an effect
tenor
original idea/topic – what the writer is trying to make more understandable
vehicle
The thing to which the tenor is being compared
personification
if figure of speech in which a thing, and animal or an abstraction is giving human characteristics
internal rhyme
when rhyming words fall with in the line
end rhyme
when rhyming words are repeated at the end of the line
slant rhyme
Final consonant sounds are the same but the bowel sounds are different
rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhymes
stanza
two or more lines of verse with space brakes before and after; a poems version of a paragraph
enjambment
The continuation of a sentence without a pause Beyond the end of the line, couplet, or stanza
refrain
A word, phrase, line or stanza repeated at intervals
figurative language
using figures of speech to be more effective
