Literary Terms - Tuesday Quiz Flashcards by Delerisha Phillips

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Situational irony

A

When things turn out differently than expected

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Dramatic irony

A

Audience knows more than the characters

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Metaphor

A

One thing representing another

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Simile

A

Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

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Pun

A

Play on words

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Personification

A

Giving human qualities to objects

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Pathetic fallacy

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Human qualities given to things in nature

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

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Onomatopoeia

A

Words that sounds like its name

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds in internal or ending parts of neighboring words

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Cacophony

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Harsh, discordant sounds

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Euphony

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Soft, soothing sounds

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Caesura

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A pause or natural break

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Anastrophe/Inversion/Hyperbaton

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Inverted syntax

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End rhyme

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Rhyme occurring at the end of a line

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Slant rhyme

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Rhyme that is approximate

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme occurring within a line

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Truncated rhyme

A

One syllable less than the others

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Feminine rhyme

A

Final syllable is unstressed

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Masculine rhyme

A

Final syllable is stressed

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Meter

A

The measure of a line in poetry

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Dimeter

A

2 feet

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Trimeter

A

3 feet

Tetrameter

4 feet

Pentameter

5 feet

Hexameter

6 feet

Rhythm

Pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

Iambic

Unstressed/stressed

Trochaic

Stressed/unstressed

Dactylic

Stressed/unstressed/unstressed

Anapestic

Unstressed/unstressed/stressed

Spondaic

Stressed/stressed

Verbal irony

Saying one thing; meaning another