Literary terms Flashcards
Riddle
From Old English roedel, from roedal meaning “to give council” or “to read”)
Pun
a play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning.
Synecdoche
a rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. For instance, a writer might state, “Twenty eyes watched our every move.”
Tone
The attitude the writer or speaker takes toward the subject, audience, or herself. You will look more directly at the syntax to find this.
Mood
The total feeling or atmosphere communicated by a scene, selection, or complete work of art. Ask, how does this make me feel?
Syntax
The way a writer chooses to order the words in a sentence for effect. For example, why does Yoda always switch around his sentences? Ex/”Go, you will!” Is it for a more dramatic effect? Is it a more direct way of speaking? Is he trying to bring up the idea before expounding on it? Syntax can have an effect on the meaning of the words.
Enjambment
Enjambment occurs in a poem when a phrase carries over a line-break without a major pause.
Ode
A long, often elaborate stanzas poem of varying line lengths and sometimes rhyme schemes, often reverently dealing with serious subjects.
Imagery
Visually descriptive or figurative language.
Stanza
A group of lines that form a poem with rhythm and rhyme.
Rhythm
measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and I sheeted syllables.
Ballad
a song or song like poem that tells a story.
Alliteration
occurrence of some letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words. (Macho Mario)
Blank Verse
Poetry written in un rhymed iambic Pentameter!
Meter
A pattern of stressed and unstressed Syllables.
