Literature Terms Flashcards
Metonymy (64)
A larger whole - usually an abstract - is represented by on of its parts
Ex. The tin star was the one thing the honest people of Carson City revered (the tin star represents the law.)
Apostrophe (63)
Related to personification, apostrophe is a speaker’s direct address to either a) a nonhuman entity or b) an absent human
Synecdoche (64)
Usually occurs when a part represents a specific, tangible whole, rather than an abstract
Ex. Hands flew in the air (hands represent a group of people).
Indirect metaphor (62)
A comparison made where one is not mentioned by name
Ex. The sun is a disc of crust with rays of melted cheese.
Extended metaphor / Conceit (63)
A more fully developed metaphor
Ex. The sun is a pizza, whose pepperoni sunspots adorn its cheesy face. It rises from the oven of the East, to sate the hunger of the morning’s inhabitants.
Assonance (69)
Repetition of vowel sounds within words
Consonance (69)
Repetition of consonant sounds within words
Heroic couplets (70)
Emulate the loftiness of epic poetry by using iambic pentameter (couplets are two consecutive rhyming lines)
Sprung rhythm (71)
Features a variety of set meters and a complex rhyme scheme
Ex. Rhyme scheme of ABBA + uneven syllable stresses
Ballad (72)
Narrative poem, usually with a tragicomic tone with four line stanzas and an ABCBDEFE rhyme scheme
Concrete / Emblematic poetry (72)
Forms its words into pictures on the page, which have something to do with the poem’s theme
Physically close (73)
Usually first person narrators
Physically distant (73)
Usually third person omniscient
Psychologically close (73)
Sympathetic with characters
Psychologically distant (73)
Unsympathetic with characters / cold
