Literature Flashcards
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Rhetorical Question
You
Direct Address
As, Like
Simile
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
Giving a non-human thing, human characteristics.
Personification
A list without and
Asydetic list
A list with no commas just conjustions
Polysyndetic list
Command
Imperative
States a fact
Declaritive
Sensory details for the associations to paint a picture in the readers mind
Imagery
In order to create suspense for her readers, an author often wishes to hint where the story is going. At the same time, she doesn’t wish to give away the ending.
Foreshadowing
It’s where the audience understand something in the play that the characters are unaware of.
Dramatic Irony
Things to prove your arguement
Statistics
Combination of contradictory words.
Oxymoron
Human characteristics or emotions that are giving to nature or objects. e.g: cruel winds
Pathetic Fallacy
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Rhyme
A statement that seems absurd but is actually valid or true.
Paradox
The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think
Irony
A word or expression that has lost much of its force through overexposure
Cliche
The usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
Anti-climax
